Parksville/Qualicum Beach Tuesday bird walk, September 18, 2012

White-winged Scoter: Ralph Hocken Photo.

The Tuesday bird walk went to Columbia Beach. The morning was sunny and warm with a sight breeze off the Strait of Georgia. The highlights included seeing a quick look at a Parasitic Jaeger as it flew up the Strait of Georgia.

Common Loons, a Horned Grebe, six Red-necked Grebe, Surf Scoters, a White-winged Scoter and a Western Grebe were seen on the open water. Black-bellied Plovers, Killdeer, Black Oystercatchers, Black Turnstones, Western Sandpipers, Bonaparte's Gulls, Mew Gulls, California Gulls, Ring-billed Gulls and Glaucous-winged Gulls were on the gravel bar at Pebble Beach.

 

Eighteen birders saw and heard the following thirty-two species:

Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Common Merganser
Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Western Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
Black Oystercatcher
Black Turnstone

Western Sandpiper

Bonaparte's Gull
Mew Gull
California Gull
Ring-billed Gull

Glaucous-winged Gull
Parasitic Jaeger
Eurasian collared-Dove
Northern Flicker
Northwestern Crow

Common Raven

Red-breasted Nuthatch
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
American Robin

Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow

House Finch

The Tuesday bird walk on September 25 will be going to Shelly Road side of the Englishman River Estuary in Parksville.

 

Good birding

Neil Robins

Parksville

British Columbia