South side of the Bay
Partly cloudy, calm, no rain.
No boat activity. Few walkers with dogs.
Eight counters: Janice Creed; Melanie Circle; Michael Mascall; Hilary Abbott; Alison Perry and Katie Smith from Victoria; Robin Lawson and Gail Mitchell.
80 Bufflehead; 30 Common Goldeneye; 2 Barrow’s Goldeneye; 6 Doublecrested Cormorant; 3 Western Grebe; 3 Horned Grebe; 4 Hooded Mergansers; 8 Surf Scoters; 10 Glaucous winged Gulls; 1 Mew Gull; 1 Thayer’s Gull; 3 Unidentified Gulls; 2 Greater Scaup; 2 Bald Eagles; 3 Belted Kingfishers.
Gail
On the north side of Cowichan Bay, fourteen species of waterbirds were observed by Bob & Helen Nation, Kurlene Wenberg, Christine Gilbertson and Carol Hartwig:
Double-crested Cormorant 47
Horned Grebe 1
Trumpter Swan 13
American Widgeon 50
Mallard 47
Surf Scoter 4
Common Goldeneye 123
Buffleheads 198
Hooded Merganzer 1
Common Merganzer 2
Bald Eagle 9
Great Blue Heron 2
Unidentified Gull 177
Horned Grebe 1
Sandhill Crane 1
Total birds 675