Five members of the birders group visited the Fanny Bay Conservation Area and Ship’s Point Park on Sunday and found the following sixteen species:27 Canada Goose
6 Common Merganser
1 Least Sandpiper
4 Semipalmated Sandpiper
3 Glaucous-winged Gull
4 Great Blue Heron
1 Bald Eagle
2 Common Raven
4 Chestnut-backed Chickadee
2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
3 Cedar Waxwing
1 Red Crossbill
1 American Goldfinch
2 Song Sparrow
1 Yellow Warbler
1 Black-headed Grosbeak
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Seven birders visited Miracle Beach Provincial Park yesterday and found the following 28 species:23 Canada Goose
6 Harlequin Duck
4 Common Merganser
1 Rufous Hummingbird
1 Killdeer
19 Least Sandpiper
20 Bonaparte's Gull
2 Glaucous-winged Gull
3 Common Loon
1 Double-crested Cormorant
2 Great Blue Heron
3 Bald Eagle
1 Belted Kingfisher
1 Red-breasted Sapsucker
1 Hairy Woodpecker
3 Pileated Woodpecker
1 Northern Flicker
1 American Crow
3 Chestnut-backed Chickadee
2 Bushtit
2 Red-breasted Nuthatch
1 Brown Creeper
1 Bewick's Wren
9 American Robin
10 Red Crossbill
1 Spotted Towhee
2 Yellow Warbler
1 Western Tanager
The highlight was a family of Pileated Woodpeckers, a mother and two juveniles.
Pileated Woodpecker Identification, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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The Pileated Woodpecker is one of the biggest, most striking forest birds on the continent. It’s nearly the size of a crow, black with bold white stripes down the neck and a flaming-red crest. Look ...
Shiny geraniums are becoming a problem just south of this area. Keep you eye open before it becomes an invasive problem disruptioning our ecosystem's native flora.Beautiful but aggressive and destructive: Shiny geraniums invade Island ecosystems
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"We’re seeing reports of it everywhere and in a lot of private gardens."
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2022 CVN Tree of the Year announced!
By Karen Cummins. Updated 2022-07-15 to add link to Kerri Scott’s podcast. Tree #13, a Garry oak located at 3015 Glacier View Rd. in Courtenay, amassed the most votes in the 2022 Tree of the Year event. The nominator was … Continue reading
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Intertidal life at Willow Point Reef
Trip report provided by Kathleen W. with photos by Barbara N. On May 18, despite a dismal weather forecast, 13 Shoreline Group members joined our enthusiastic trip leader Sandra Milligan for a productive low tide outing at Willow Point Reef, … Continue reading
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More fabulous plants!
From an email by Jocie to the Botany Group on May 25. Here are a few examples of our amazing local flora, courtesy of John B., with some habitat notes [click a photo to enlarge it]: Small-flowered woodland star (Lithophragma … Continue reading
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Identifying insect pollinators: a visual guide
Many CVN members want their gardens to attract pollinators, and carefully select native plants for this purpose. But how much do we know about the pollinators themselves? As a joint project, the Environmental Youth Alliance and an organization named Border … Continue reading
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