The herons are back

As I stood waiting for the crowds to turn up for our pre Swan and Goose count outing it suddenly dawned on me just a few minutes before 10am, that most people don’t like sunny warm Wednesdays watching birds, it was with this that 5 of us started out on our route. We had seen…

Hi With only one participant willing to brave the weather, I was dragged screaming and kicking from my sick bed to accompany old Derrick along for the count. To say the weather was bad, is I think an understatement, let’s say it was the worst we’ve ever had on a count by far. With the…

Pale Swallowtail Earth Day brought glorious sunshine to Cowichan Bay and the Cowichan Bay Dock Road, 22 species of humanoids turned out for this wonderful Wednesday. When all was said and done there were 38 species of birds seen and heard by the group. A bit slower than what I was expecting, that’s nature for…

The snow falling on the south side of Cowichan Bay was heavy enough to be very beautiful but not heavy enough to obscure our view of the birds except for some distant cormorants. We had lots of birders enjoying the weather: Adam, Jackie, Malcolm, and Fiona Taylor; Jane Bailey, Linda Hill, Carol Milo, John Scull,…

The contents of this report contains mature subject matter viewer discretion is advised. 12 eager April fools turned up for our annual Swan and Goose counters annual days holiday up to the Nanaimo Estuary, three cars were loaded up and Zan who had been out on the tiles all night was picked up in Ladysmith….

Dear Birders And this is why you should never let Swan & Goose counters go out for four hours un-supervised: Derrick PS. well done counters a record number of swans for the season. On 22nd February four stalwart birders set off swanning around the Cowichan Valley with a borrowed scope. The sky was blue, the…