This Thursday October 15th eight birders went to Tyee Spit, Campbell River, where we saw 42 species. We enjoyed a pleasant, sunny morning with the highlight of huge flocks of waterbirds in feeding frenzies offshore. Several of us went to Salmon Point for lunch and added three additional species: Red-necked Grebe, Belted Kingfisher and Steller’s Jay.
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
American Wigeon
Mallard
Green-winged Teal
Greater Scaup
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-throated Loon
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Western Grebe
Brandt’s Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Northern Harrier
Bald Eagle
Killdeer
Dunlin
Common Murre
Pigeon Guillemot
Mew Gull
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
Northern Flicker
Northwestern Crow
European Starling
Fox Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Spotted Towhee
