The Tuesday bird walk went to Moorcroft Regional Park in Nanoose Bay. The
morning was cloudy and cool with a strong wind off the Strait of Georgia. A
Red-throated Loon flew up the strait—a very unusual sighting for this area.
Two Marbled Murrelet were seen just offshore giving us great looks. A very fast
Parasitic Jaeger flew up the Strait just above the water. A Common Murre and a
Pigeon Guillemot were spotted further offshore. We heard Pacific-slope
Flycatchers singing during the walk. We saw and heard many Orange-crowned
Warblers, Yellow-rumped Warblers,Townsend’s Warblers and Black-throated Grey
Warblers throughout the morning.
Twenty-two birders saw and heard the following fifty-two species:
Mallard
Bufflehead
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
White-wing Scoter
Red-breasted Merganser
Common Merganser
Common Loon
Pacific Loon
Red-throated Loon
Pelagic Cormorant
Marbled Murrelet
Common Murre
Pigeon Guillemot
Parasitic Jaeger
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Cooper’s Hawk
Mew Gull
California Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Band-tail Pigeon
Northern Flicker
Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Rufous Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Townsend’s Warbler
Black-throated Grey Warbler
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Pacific Wren
Brown Creeper
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
European Starling
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Purple Finch
Red-winged Blackbird
American Goldfinch
Pine
Siskin
The Tuesday bird walk on April 28, 2015 will be going to the Top Bridge
Trail in Parksville.
Good birding
Neil Robins
Parksville
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