Brown Creeper: Ralph Hocken Photos.
The Tuesday bird walk went to Rathtrevor Provincial Park
in Parksville. The morning was cloudy. As we neared the Strait of Georgia we
were greeted with a strong, biting wind. The walk through the forest was wind
free and quite warm. The highlights included seeing hundreds of
Dunlin, Black Turnstones and Black-bellied Plover feeding along the tideline. We saw
several Horned Grebes,
Red-necked Grebes, Common Goldeneye, Red-breasted Mergansers, Pacific Loons
and Common Loons on the rough water of the strait. A Cooper’s Hawk was spotted
circling above the edge of the forest. We had great looks at two Brown Creepers creeping up the trunks of conifer
trees.
Sixteen birders saw and heard the following forty-two
species:
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Harlequin
Duck
Bufflehead
Common
Goldeneye
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Bald Eagle
Cooper’s Hawk
Bonaparte's
Gull
Mew Gull
Thayer’s Gull
California Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Dunlin
Black Turnstone
Black-bellied Plover
Western Sandpiper
Northern Flicker
Steller’s Jay
Northwestern
Crow
Common Raven
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Pacific Wren
Bewick's Wren
Brown Creeper
Varied Thrush
European Starling
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
White-crowned
Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Pine Siskin
The Tuesday bird walk on
November 20 will be going to Columbia Beach.--- High Tide is at 11:20
a.m.
Good
birding
Neil
Robins
Parkville
British
Columbia
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