The herons are back

Hi Birders This week saw eight eager birders turn up for the count and although the Goose numbers were normal we seem to have lost a large proportion of our Swans. The Ruddy Ducks on Somenos Lake were gone, hopefully back to Quamichan Lake. The Hawks suffered this week with low numbers for Red-tails and…

                Friends and others, We started today’s count with 6 people and without a Red-tailed Hawk which Barry has been relied on for finding our first of the day along the dike. It was still a little nippy although the sun was up and starting to gain strength….

From the north side: Kurlene Wen, Bob Nation, and Daryl Johnson did the Coastal Waterbird Survery on Oct. 12th, 2014. Overcast skies, and calm seas made the birding fairly easy on Sunday morning. Birds seen: Double-crested Cormorant 7 Horned Grebe 2 Great Blue Heron 2 Trumpeter Swan 2 Mute Swan 35 Mallard 52 American Wigeon…

It was nearing 21:45h on June 20th.  Steve and I were visiting Bruce and Adele with several other friends.  The sun had set behind Mount Prevost an hour earlier.  Adele disappeared and then I heard her call, Gail, come here quickly! Through the twilight, I spotted her sitting on a beautiful old wooden bench at…

A bright and beautiful morning in Cowichan Bay, just after sunrise. On the south side of the Bay Carol Milo, Gail Mitchell, Laurie Vasey, and John Scull where joined at the Cowichan Estuary Nature Centre by two visitors inspired by the Wildwings Festival: Bruce Coates and Karen Jarvis. There were very few waterbirds in the…

On October 9th Carol Milo, Wilma Harvey, John Wheatley, Dorothy & Eric Marshall and Todd Carnahan covered the south side of Cowichan Bay. A toral of 141 birds were observed.   2 Unident. grebe 3 Double crested cormorant 56 Canada goose 11 American wigeon 45 Unident. Duck 21 Glaucous winged gull 3 Belted kingfisher Carol…