The herons are back

What another wonderful day for the counters with perfect weather and record numbers of birds! Six counters including Eugene who came all the way from Sydney, Australia, I didn’t know that the Aussies had heard of us, but I guess when you’re famous word gets around We once again slid into Derrick’s truck and made…

    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…

On Valentine’s Day, February 14th, 2016 It was a dark and overcast morning in Cowichan Bay, but there was no rain and the mist around the mountains was beautiful. Hilary Stead (and her Belgian WWOOFer Loic Leconte), Linda Hill, Gail Mitchell, Barry Hetcho, John Scull, Kathy O’Donnell, and Jim O’Donnell counted: Canada Goose 3 Great…

      “The real face of swan counting” Today we lost the Midas touch with the weather, as some of us got soaked while others curled up in the vehicles, what a rotter it was, oh well we had a good run of clear count days. All was not lost as we did extremely…

Hi Birders Two carloads of festive birders headed out this week in warm but dull weather, I was hoping that our numbers of swans would increase and I was not disappointed as we had over 400 Trumpeters. What was surprising was the number of immature which went way up, with a ratio of over 30%…

Here are the final totals for the Duncan CBC. 112 Species 30,329 individual 1 new species for the count, Western Bluebird #3 2 Count week species, Dunlin, Evening Grosbeak 11 high counts Cackling Goose #199 Hooded Merganser #236 California Quail #327 Pied-billed Grebe #98 Merlin #10 Red-breasted Sapsucker #29 Steller’s Jay #339 Cedar Waxwing #30…