It was cold but calm at the Courtenay Air Park on Feb. 6. Highlights were 6 Ring-billed Gulls and 12 Bushtits. 6 birders saw the following 35 species:
Horned Grebe
Rock Pigeon
Trumpeter Swan
Common Raven
Great-blue Heron
Northwestern Crow
Mallard
Chestnut-back Chickadee
Northern Pintail
Bushtit
American Wigeon
Bewick’s Wren
Eurasian Wigeon
Gold-crowned Kinglet
Green-winged Teal
European Starling
Greater Scaup
American Robin
Common Goldeneye
Spotted Towhee
Bufflehead
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Hooded Merganser
White-crowned Sparrow
Common Merganser
Fox Sparrow
Bald Eagle
Song Sparrow
Ring-billed Gull
Dark-eyed Junco
Glaucous-winged Gull
Red-winged Blackbird
Mew Gull
House Finch
Eurasian-collared Dove
