Parksville/Qualicum Beach Tuesday bird walk, February 05, 2013

Long-tailed Ducks: Ralph Hocken Photo.

 

The Tuesday bird walk went to Deep Bay. The morning was cloudy with rain showers and a strong wind off the Strait of Georgia. The highlights included seeing Long-tailed Ducks in their usual spot just off shore at the point (we have decided to call it the Long-tail Point). We saw and heard the Black Scoters singing through-out the morning. Surf Scoters and White-winged Scoters were plenty-full on the water. A Sharp-shinned Hawk was perched high up in a tree, giving us great views.

Fourteen wet hardy birders saw and heard the following forty-five species:
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Trumpeter Swan
American Wigeon
Mallard
Greater Scaup

Lesser Scaup
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Barrow’s Goldeneye

Red-breasted Merganser
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Brandt’s Cormorant

Pelagic Cormorant
Bald Eagle

Sharp-shinned Hawk
Black-bellied Plover
Black Turnstone
Dunlin

Pigeon Guillemot
Mew Gull
Thayer's Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian-collared Dove
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven

Steller’s Jay
American Robin
European Starling
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Purple Finch
House Finch

The next Tuesday bird walk on February 12th will be going to Rathtrevor Provincial Park.

 

Long-tailed Ducks: Ralph Hocken Photo.

Good birding

Neil Robins

Parksville

British Columbia

PS—We are planning on going to Port Alberni on February 19: