The Tuesday bird walk went to the Shelly Road side of the Englishman River
Estuary in Parksville. The morning was overcast and the winds were calm. A flock
of singing Red Crossbills flew into the top of a tall conifer tree at the
parking area on Parksville Beach just before the start of the walk. We saw and
heard a large number of Yellow Warblers singing from their perches in a tree
just off the trail. The Willow Flycatchers have arrived on their migration--we
saw ten of them singing from the top of short bushes along the trail. A
Savannah Sparrow was singing from his perch on the meadow. We spotted a male
Ring-necked Pheasant flapping his wings and calling near the fence at the park
boundary. A Pacific-slope Flycatcher caught our eye as it sang from his perch
along the trail.
Ring-neck Pheasant: Ralph Hocken Photo.
Nine birders saw and heard the following forty-six species:
Canada Goose
Mallard
Common Merganser
Doubled-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Glaucous-winged Gull
Band-tailed Pigeon
Eurasian-collared Dove
California Quail
Ring-necked Pheasant
Rufous Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Willow Flycatcher
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
Violet-green Swallow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Pacific Wren
Swainson’s Thrush
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
European Starling
Red-eyed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Brown-headed Cowbird
Dark-eyed Junco
House Finch
Red Crossbill
Purple Finch
American Goldfinch
The Tuesday bird walk on June 09, 2015 will be going to the Beaver Ponds in
Nanoose Bay.
Red Crossbill: Ralph Hocken Photo.
Good birding
Neil Robins
Parksville
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