I was at work when Jocie called to report that her mother B. had found […]
Category: Birds
Honeysuckle and the Hummingbird
If you’ve got honeysuckle (Lonicera sp.) growing in your backyard on Vancouver Island, you’re bound […]
Killdeer Cute!
The call of a killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) is distinctive—once you hear it you’ll never forget […]
Redhead
A great day out birding for the Comox Valley Nature spring bird count. Like Christmas […]
WildResearch Pelagic Trip to La Pérouse Bank
Despite a painfully stiff back (which I threw on Thursday wrestling with the kids), I […]
Book Review – How to be a Better Birder
How to be a Better Birder Derek Lovitch Princeton University Press Paperback 192 pages 2012 […]
The Budget Pelagic Tour
Whenever I make the crossing between Vancouver Island and the mainland on BC Ferries I […]
Great Backyard Bird Count – February 17 to 20
Like most naturalists I’ve got a couple of backyard feeders and enjoy keeping a rough […]
Glaucous-winged but no Glaucous Gull
Portuguese Joe’s is usually good for gulls any time of the year – there’s a […]
Surreal Somass Estuary
The forecast was pretty good and I decided to check out an area that I […]