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“Our last hurrah” All good things must come to an end and so our swan and goose count played out its last week of the season. The weather was cold and damp, but we shouldn’t complain as this season has been very kind to us. Numbers were down right across the board with just 33…

This week we were reduced to just 5 counters and so we squeezed into one vehicle which was admirably handled by Kurlene although the participants in the back seat were doing a lot of groping, it appears that the seat-belts were trying to get into the wrong receptacles. This week saw a new high for…

On May 8th a group gathered at Cowichan Bay for the last Coastal Waterbird Survey until September.  The Waterbirds were scare – apart from Double Crested Cormorants and Glaucous- winged gulls, we only observed a  few Bufflehead and one female Common Merganser. The resident Mute Swans graced us with their presence.  Great Blue Herons were…

SOUTH SIDE Gail Mitchell, Linda Hill, John Scull, Kathy Coster, and Barry Hetchko counted: belted kingfisher     2 great blue heron     10 purple martin           39 osprey                        3 glaucous-wing gull    9 unidentified gull        11 common merganser  4 bald eagle                   2 northwest crow           1 1 harbour seal & 1 river otter…

Red-tailed hawk           Today was one of those wonderful birding days that we dream of, the sun shone brightly all day, the birds put on a great show and so did the beasts. Counting on a day like this was a joy, with the birds all being mostly easy to see….

It was a cool morning that brought 6 eager birders out to count and it was slow going for the first couple of hours with other than Canada Geese not much was put on the list. The tally keeper had not even had to sharpen her pencil as things were so bad. Just two Trumpeters…