Birding Locations in Greater Victoria

The Victoria waterfront offers great seabird and shorebird viewing opportunities year round. The waterfront is the most accessable area in Greater Victoria as you can bird from your car in many locations such as Clover Pt., a definate plus for storm and winter birding. The Ogden Pt. breakwater is a perfect platform for scopes and for getting closer to deep water seabirds.

Good Birding Locations

• City of Victoria and Oak Bay
• Esquimalt, Colwood, View Royal
• Saanich: Broadmead, Royal Oak, Interurban, Gordon Head
• Saanich Peninsula: Central Saanich,North Saanich, Sidney
• Highlands District

 

Other Areas

Langford

• Mill Hill Reginal Park
  Goldstream Provicial Park
  Langford Lake
  Galloping Goose Trail
  Skirt Mt.
  Mt. Finlayson

 

Metchoson/Sooke

• Albert Head Lagoon
  Witty's Lagoon/Tower Point
  Devonian Park
  East Sooke Park
  Roche Cove
  Sooke Hills
  Sooke River/Potholes
  Galloping Goose Trail
  Whiffen Spit

 

Malahat/Cobble Hill

• Koksilah River
  Spectacle Lake
  Shawnigan Lake
  Mill Bay

 

Duncan/Cowichan Valley

• Cowichan River Trail
  Duncan Sewage Treatment Ponds
  Somenos Marsh Wildlife Park
  Cowichan Bay Estuary (Dock Rd.)
  Mt. Prevost

 

Local Offshore Islands

Sidney Spit Provincial Park
Chatham Island I.R.
Discovery Island
Great Chain Island ecological reserve/Chain Islets Group

Saltspring Island

• Ruckle Provincial Park
  Fulford Valley
  Mt. Tuam

 

Other Gulf Islands:

• Mayne Island, North/South Pender Island, Saturna Island, Galiano Island
  BC Ferries Ride/Active Pass
  M.V. Coho to Port Angeles (mini-pelagic)