April 29, 2021

North side of the Estuary: With two birders off in another hemisphere trying to escape the Canadian winter, the remnants of the team enjoyed a fine warm February 10th. Despite the hazard of the bright setting sun in our eyes, we counted 711 birds of 16 different species. Glaucous-winged Gulls, Mew Gulls and Mallards made…

          Some say I have a gift for this and others just think I’m lucky, but the way I slipped that wonderful count day in among two stinkers, well you be the judge. This week saw a bumper crop of counters with three vehicles heading off with 10 counters and picking…

One of the most welcome signs of Spring is the chorus of frogs. If you are lucky enough to have a wetland area near where you live, you will know what I mean. The tiny Pacific Tree Frog (also called the Pacific Chorus Frog) is the one most common to me. The Scientific name for…

This week saw 8 counters head out in 2 vehicles and we put all the girls in together and Barry who needed some tender care after a couple of weeks with the girls came in with myself and the Marshalls. It had to happen sooner or later and a dramatic change occurred as more than…

It was a dry day although a little chilly, 5 people turned up for the count and because one of them was coming down with some nasty bug we decided to put all the clean ones in one vehicle and me with bugsy. I had already suffered the sickness, hopefully I was now immune to…

Hi Naturalists It has been a while since I put fingers to keys and thought that as surveys are about to start that I would enlighten you on what this birding duffer has seen this late summer. The shorebirds have been the best for many years, but numbers are still low for what was once…