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 Crow, 4 Glaucous-winged Gull, 4 Belted Kingfisher, 2 Osprey, 20 Common Merganser , 46 Bufflehead, 1 Horned Grebe, 10 Common Goldeneye
John Scull
North Side of the Bay:
At 8 AM on Sunday, April 10, Daryl Johnson, Bob Nation, Christine Gilbertson and Carol Hartwig trained their binoculars and spotting scopes on the northern portion of Cowichan Estuary for the Coastal Bird Survey. A total of 300 birds from 15 species were observed on a very calm Bay with excellent visibility on an overcast day at high tide.
1 Common Loon, 6 Horned Grebe, 2 Great Blue Heron, 7 Canada Goose, 8 Mute Swan , 14 American Wigeon, 2 Mallard, 4 Surf Scoter, 145 Bufflehead, 6 Common Merganser, 7 Common Goldeneye, 88 unidentified Gull, 3 Bald Eagle, 2 Northwestern Crow, 5 Common Raven
Carol Hartwig