The Yellow-rumped warblers are back! Have you heard them singing in your neighbourhood? The western subspecies (Audubon’s) breeds here but you may also find individuals of the eastern (Myrtle) subspecies migrating through as well.
Yellow-rumped Warbler Identification, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
allaboutbirds.org
Yellow-rumped Warblers are impressive in the sheer numbers with which they flood the continent each fall. Shrubs and trees fill with the streaky brown-and-yellow birds and their distinctive, sharp chi...The birders group visited Kye Bay and the end of airport runway today and found forty species. The highlight was seeing several thousand gulls, many of them up close on the beach in front of the group.
Brant 30
American Wigeon 7
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Greater Scaup
Harlequin Duck 30
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Long-tailed Duck 100
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Anna’s Hummingbird 1
Killdeer
Mew Gull
California Gull
Thayer’s Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Common Loon
Bald Eagle 5
Northern Harrier 1 (at airport runway)
Northern Flicker 2
Northwestern Crow 3
Common Raven 3
Violet-green Swallow 4
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Pacific Wren 1
Hermit Thrush 1
American Robin
European Starling
House Finch
Pine Siskin 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
On Sunday, March 24th there will be a club walk to Cumberland Marsh. Loys Maingon will lead a walk along the Cumberland wetlands in Coal Creek Historical Park. Meet at Jumbo’s cabin at 9:30 am. For more information about the area, visit our nature viewing guide: comoxvalleynaturalist.bc.ca/nature-viewing-guide/7-cumberland-area/cumberland-marsh/
