The Tuesday bird walk went to the
Shelly Road side of the Englishman River in Parksville. The wind was blasting
off the Strait of Georgia and through the forest all morning. We
saw Golden-crowned Kinglets feeding on the trail just
ahead of us at the start of the walk. We spotted a pair of Varied Thrush not far from
the trail and they gave us a great show playing around with each
other. There was
a young Peregrine Falcon perched in a tall tree swaying in the
wind not far from us.
Surf Scoters and
White-wing Scoters were playing hide
and seek with us in the choppy waters on the Strait. Common Loons
and Pacific Loons were seen flying
just above the water heading down the Strait.
Nine dedicated birders, including a
visiting birder from Whitehorse, saw and heard the following forty
species:
Canada Geese
Cackling
Goose
Brant
American Widgeon
Mallard
Northern
Pintail
Green-wing
Teal
Gadwall
Surf
Scoter
White-wing
Scoter
Bufflehead
Common
Goldeneye
Red-necked Grebe
Common Merganser
Common
Loon
Pacific
Loon
Great
Blue Heron
Bald
Eagle
Peregrine
Falcon
Mew
Gull
Thayer's Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Anna's
Hummingbird
Northern Flicker
Hairy
Woodpecker
Northwestern
Crow
Common
Raven
American
Robin
Varied
Thrush
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Brown
Creeper
Pacific Wren
Bewick’s
Wren
Spotted
Towhee
Song
Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed
Junco
House
Finch
American
Goldfinch
Varied Thrush: Ralph Hocken Photo.
The Tuesday bird walk on
January 24, 2017 will be going to the Plummer Road side of the
Englishman River in Parksville. Meet at the parking lot next to the Lions kid
playground in the Parksville Community Park at 9:00 a.m. Or at the corner of
Plummer Road and Shorewood Drive at about 9:10 a.m.
Good birding
Neil Robins
Parksville
http://thebirdstore.blogspot.ca/
thebackyard@shaw.ca
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