Glaucous Gull, Ralph Hocken Photo.
The Tuesday bird walk went to Columbia Beach. The
morning was cloudy and the winds were calm. We were greeted with thousands upon
thousands of gulls, huge numbers of sea lions, seals and fishing boats when we
arrived. The Herring spawn has begun! We spotted a Eurasian Wigeon and one
Brant in with the gulls at the gravel bar. Several flocks of Brant flew over the
water. Mew Gulls, California Gulls, a
Ring-billed Gull, a Herring Gull, a
Western Gull, a
Glaucous Gull and a large number
of Thayer's Gulls and
Glaucous-winged Gulls were seen through out the
morning.
Sixteen birders saw and heard the following forty-eight
species:
Brant
Eurasian
Wigeon
American Wigeon
Mallard
Harlequin Duck
Northern
Pintail
Surf Scoter
Black Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Barrow's Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Bald Eagle
Northern
Shrike
Black-bellied Plover
Black Turnstone
Killdeer
Black Oystercatcher
Dunlin
Anna’s Hummingbird
Mew Gull
Mew Gull
California
Gull
Ring-billed
Gull
Herring
Gull
Western
Gull
Thayer's Gull
Glaucous Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Common
Murre
Eurasian-collared Dove
California Quail
Northern Flicker
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
American Robin
European Starling
Red-winged
Blackbird
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
House Sparrow
The Tuesday bird walk on
March 12 will be going to the Little Qualicum River Estuary in Qualicum
Beach.
Good birding!
Neil Robins
Parksville
British Columbia
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