With all the depressing news about yet more extinctions, it is great when a story like this comes along. A species thought extinct for 150 years is ...
Hi. This is Daniel Bastaja posting for Monday, March 1st, 2004 In a previous posting about Arctic Loon ID, I mentioned that the chin strap did not appear to be...
Hi, At first light this morning I was disturbed from my desk by the sound of many gulls. I looked out the window, amd in the backyard were about 30 gulls, just...
Hi Listers The March list is up and running. Went out this morning and from Hecate Park, Cowichan Bay through to Somenos Marsh, with a stop in Maple Bay, i...
Just wanted to report a small flock of 4 red crossbills in the doug fir tree tops at Colliery Dam Park in Nanaimo. Mar. 1, 2004. They are moving down in...
Hello birders, I found my first Anna's nest of the year at Swan Lake. Not far away a, Yellow-rumped Warbler was hawking insects and on the ground, 2 Mourning...
Derrick, Some others that you have not listed. All seen today between Little Qualicum Estuary and Rathtrevor while doing Brant surveys. Pacific Loon Red-necked...
Hi Everybody, I just uploaded today's photos of the Fanny Bay King Eider in http://vancouverislandbirds.com. Look in "Special - Journal 7" All the best, Mike...
Hi david i would be interested in knowing at what time of day you are hearing the pygmy owls at royal roads.I would suspect it is in the morning when you go...
SWEET PICTURES MIKE!!!!!!! Wow, I am so thrilled that everyone has gotten to see this bird. It seems to often that records go down as "single observer"...
Hi Folks The list has been updated. As i told you i was going gardening this afternoon and keeping watch with one eye while trying not to cut off a finger with...
Hi Derrick, Tony and I had a close-up look at the Hydaspe Fritillary, it was very fresh looking, and certainly NOT a Comma! Heather ===== Finding new ideas is...
I've added a folder to files called 2004.03.01 Englishman River.On Wed.03,I'll delete the folders up to 2004.02.04 Columbia Beach to make more room. ...
Thanks for the tip David, Ted and I enjoyed listening to the Pygmy Owls this morning. A lifer for Ted. Chris Saunders Victoria ... again calling today......
Hi Birders When coming out of the hospital up here in Duncan today, i heard a Pygmy Owl tooting, it must be the right time to toot. Also up at the hospital was...
Hi Islanders, I was out all day today. I spent the early morning in Cedar, and the afternoon around Parksville-Qualicum. At the Crow & Gate, there were 2...
I heard a few American Goldfinches overhead this morning and later in afternoon some Cedar Waxwings were at Royal Roads U...And finally, a Great Horned Owl was...
Hi derrick nothing special here but went out today to get pygmy owl tooting at royal roads thanks to david again but other birds seen are ones you may need for...
Hi birders, I want to add the following three species to the March list: Pelagic Cormorant Common Murre Red-breasted Sapsucker I'll hopefully get out tomorrow...
Hi Folks God, go away to watch Vanna and Jeopardy for an hour and you guys go balmy. Glad to see you left me a couple of species to go look for tomorrow and...
Hi all, I saw the Swamp Sparrow and heard the Virginia Rail again at the south end of the floating boardwalk at Swan Lake. Also at Swan Lake was a Satyr Comma,...
Hi all, 4 Tree Swallows were over Swan Lake today. Also there was an Orange-crowned Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Virginia Rail and the Swamp Sparrow. Chris...
Hi Birders Went up to Fanny Bay this morning with a couple of Victoria Vixens. As soon as we walked out from Arbutus Bay Road one of the young ladies, cried...
Greetings Birders, I know that it is early March, but the Brant have already begun to arrive back in Parksville-Qualicum! I would like to invite all of you to...
Hello Birders There was an American Kestrel seen near the corner of Esquimalt Rd and Tyee Rd in Vic. West in Victoria on Monday. Another addition to the Feb....
