The herons are back

South Side of the Bay: On this beautiful, calm morning, Gail Mitchell, Barry Hetchco, John Scull, and LInda Hill walked through Hecate Park and saw these birds plus 27 Purple Martins. 1 Common Loon, 6 Surf Scoter, 3 Great Blue Heron, 13 Double-crested Cormorant, 2 Mute Swan, 1 Bald Eagle, 7 gull sp., 2 Northwestern…

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….

It is bird nesting season in the Cowichan Valley. The Spotted Towhee appears on the Cowichan Valley Naturalists’ brochure: Thanks, again, to Willie Harvie for sending me this photo. Gail

    It is hard to comprehend what we as counters had to put up with today, first of all our numbers of participants was down to just 6 and at one point I wondered if we would be greater than the number of swans seen. At times on the west side of town it…

Hi Birders: Another incredible day both for birds and weather was had by the counters this week. Our day started with 7 of us leaving the dog park in two cars and it was not long before we found another stray standing on the side of the road, Bob, so we took him along as…

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…