Cowichan Valley Bird List

“WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY & BLACK THURSDAY” Hi Birders Today was one of those days that dreams are made of. 9 participants set out to count this week with two new counters and one old counter making his season debut. Things started very slow with the usual spots having a smattering of geese, our first Trumpeters were…

Eric and Dorothy’s notes from the Swan & Goose car where Barry was at the wheel: Wednesday 6th January began with the sad news that our leader has a bad back and would not be joining us. The temperature was only a little above zero when the seven of us set off in two cars….

The numbers went up and so did the temperature as 8 birders set out on today’s count, two cars were all we needed, now all we had to do was find some birds. Barry had already got a Northern Shrike for the day in Somenos and a whole wack of Canada Geese. I had called…

Gail Mitchell, Hilary Stead, Kathy Coster, Linda Hill, Jane Kilthei, and John Scull gathered on a cold but beautiful Sunday morning to count the birds from Hecate Park.  The bird list can be found at http://www.cowichanestuary.ca/wildlife/birds/#Coastal_Waterbird_Survey.  The new bird for the day was a Killdeer who appeared to be uncomfortably cold.  After the count most…

    “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” The Good Today we found the rarest bird ever seen on the Swan & Goose count when a Gyrfalcon zoomed across the fields at the Hwy 18 park and ride, the bird did finally land about a mile away on top of a fir and Barry…

There were lots of volunteers but not so many birds for the first count of the season. Laurie Vasey, Linda Hill, Kathy Coster, Gail Mitchell, and Carol Milo strolled along the shore on the south side and saw the following birds 1 Canada Goose 17 Common Merganser 2 Double-crested Cormorant 7 Glaucous-winged Gull 26 gull…