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      • Upper Puntledge River
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      • Trent River South
      • Union Bay area
    • 9. DENMAN ISLAND
      • Boyle Point
      • Central Park
      • Sandy (Tree) Island
      • Fillongley Provincial Park
    • 10. HORNBY ISLAND
      • Mt Geoffrey
      • Helliwell Provincial Park
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    2 days ago

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    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 Goose6 Common Merganser1 Least Sandpiper4 Semipalmated Sandpiper3 Glaucous-winged Gull4 Great Blue Heron1 Bald Eagle2 Common Raven4 Chestnut-backed Chickadee2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow3 Cedar Waxwing1 Red Crossbill1 American Goldfinch2 Song Sparrow1 Yellow Warbler1 Black-headed Grosbeak ... See MoreSee Less

    Fanny Bay & Ships Point | Comox Valley Nature

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    5 days ago

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    Seven birders visited Miracle Beach Provincial Park yesterday and found the following 28 species: 23 Canada Goose6 Harlequin Duck4 Common Merganser 1 Rufous Hummingbird1 Killdeer19 Least Sandpiper20 Bonaparte's Gull2 Glaucous-winged Gull3 Common Loon1 Double-crested Cormorant2 Great Blue Heron3 Bald Eagle1 Belted Kingfisher1 Red-breasted Sapsucker1 Hairy Woodpecker3 Pileated Woodpecker1 Northern Flicker1 American Crow3 Chestnut-backed Chickadee 2 Bushtit2 Red-breasted Nuthatch1 Brown Creeper1 Bewick's Wren9 American Robin10 Red Crossbill1 Spotted Towhee2 Yellow Warbler1 Western TanagerThe highlight was a family of Pileated Woodpeckers, a mother and two juveniles. ... See MoreSee Less

    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 ...
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    1 week ago

    Comox Valley Nature
    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. ... See MoreSee Less

    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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