Seven birders made the trip down to Neck Point Regional Park in Nanaimo on Sept. 12. The weather was beautiful, but not too hot since we were next to the water. One of the highlights at Neck Pt. was seeing a family of California Quail with 3 young. After having lunch at Piper’s Pub we made stops at Columbia Beach in Parksville, which was fairly quiet, and at Deep Bay. The hightlight here was hundreds of Red-necked Grebes in the channel between the shoreline and Chrome Island. A total of 35 species were reported for the day.
Here is a species list for the trip:
Canada Goose
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
California Quail
Common Loon
Red-necked Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Killdeer
Black Turnstone
Least Sandpiper
Bonaparte’s Gull
California Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Anna’s Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Northwestern Crow
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Bewick’s Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
European Starling
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
House Finch
