Sunday bird walk (1 Viewer)

Sunday Bird Walk--Neck Point Park, September 01 2002, 8:50 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Weather: The temperature was about 18º C with a very strong wind from the NW making
the ocean very choppy.

Observers: Sunday birders (22 of us including visitors from Texas and New York).

Number of Species: 21

Highlights: The wind on our cheeks and every bird that we saw! The Parasitic Jaeger was a standout moving from south to north just above the water.

Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
White-winged Scoter
Red-breasted Merganser
Merlin
Black Oystercatcher
Black Turnstone
Parasitic Jaeger
Glaucous-winged Gull
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Common Raven
American Robin
European Starling
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
House Finch
Pine Siskin

Ten of us went to McGregor Marsh to finish off the morning out of the wind. We saw 17
species there:


Pied-billed Grebe ( a juvenile covered in down)
Mallard
Bald Eagle
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
American Crow
Northwestern Crow
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Bewick's Wren
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
Black-throated Gray Warbler ( a pleasant surprise)
Spotted Towhee
House Finch
House Sparrow

Sunday bird walks are presented by
THE BACKYARD WILDBIRD & NATURE STORE
# 6-6404 Metral Drive, Nanaimo 390-3669
[email protected]

Good birding
Neil Robins
Nanaimo B.C.
Canada

I enjoy reading your Sunday bird walks Neil. Please keep them coming.

burhinus

Hi burhinus,
Thanks for the feed back I shall keep posting our walks, I am going on vacation for a few weeks but will continue the posts when I return.
Good birding
Neil:cat: