Bird Outing Report: Oyster Bay, Aug. 22, 2013

Eight birders met at Oyster Bay for another search for migrating shorebirds. This field trip also acted as an outing for the Thursday Birding group. We saw good numbers of the usual sandpipers and plovers. However, the highlight was 2 light morph Parasitic Jaegers (1 adult and 1 juvenile) harassing Bonaparte’s Gulls. Good views, particularly of the juvenile.

Art Martell supplied the following species list:

Oyster Bay, Comox-Strathcona, CA-BC
Aug 22, 2013 8:30 AM – 10:20 AM
21 species

Harlequin Duck 6
Common Merganser 1
Common Loon 3
Red-necked Grebe 2
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Turkey Vulture 1
Bald Eagle 1
Black-bellied Plover 45
Semipalmated Plover 1
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Western Sandpiper 80
Least Sandpiper 40
Bonaparte’s Gull 140
California Gull 5
Glaucous-winged Gull 17
Parasitic Jaeger 2
Pigeon Guillemot 2
Marbled Murrelet 4
Merlin 1
Common Raven 1
Purple Martin 30