The Tuesday bird walk went to the Shelly Road side of
the Englishman River Estuary in Parksville. The morning was cloudy but quite
warm. The highlights included seeing twenty Brant racing down the Strait of
Georgia. We saw a Northern Shrike at six different perches
through out the morning. A Varied Thrush gave great views as it perched for a long time quite
close to us.
Fourteen birders
including visiting birders from Chicago and Belgium saw and heard the following
fifty-four species:
Brant
Canada Goose
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Greater Scaup
Green-winged
Teal
Surf Scoter
White-winged
Scoter
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Common
Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Red-necked Grebe
Horned Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Bald Eagle
Northern Shrike
Mew Gull
Thayer's Gull
Western
Gull
Herring Gull
Common Murre
Black-bellied Plover
Black
Turnstone
California Quail
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Bewick's Wren
Pacific Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Belted Kingfisher
Anna’s Hummingbird
Varied Thrush
European Starling
Spotted Towhee
Fox
Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Pine Siskin
Common
Redpoll
House Finch
Red
Crossbill
The Tuesday bird walk on
January 22 will be going to the Plummer Road side of the Englishman River
Estuary. High tide is at 12:55 p.m. and is 13.5 feet.
Good
birding
Neil
Robins
Parksville
P/S...
“Rare bird
alert”
From the main parking lot, walk 1 minute north towards the playground where the bird was seen feeding around the picnic tables and the base of conifers as of 8 am on the 15.
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