A Cackling Goose from last February at Little Qualicum Estuary. Not a good shot, but will do until someone gets a better one. Cackling Goose by Bill Gyles, on Flickr
I have been out of circulation, birding wise, for awhile, but good to be contributing again with you. Have enjoyed viewing all the lastest additions. Here are a couple to knock off our still needed list.
I went out to the 112th. St. pump house on Boundary Bay as the two Willets have been reported there continuing all weekend. Grey overcast, crappy light, snoozing bird,but good enough for a record photo and to add it to the Challenge list:
Some Pectoral Sandpipers visited the SW inner pond at Iona Beach Park today, bright overcast conditions, and the less than ideal habitat of a sewage pond and associated black muck weren't great, but some decent photos were obtained.
While not on the Challenge List, an American Golden Plover made an appearance at the Iona Park SW Inner Pond while I was watching the sandpipers flit around. The cloudy conditions brightened in the early afternoon and provided some reasonable ID photos. The bird stayed far out on the mud flats, maybe 70 meters away and could only be viewed off the pipeline there.
I went out to Boundary Bay near the pump house at the foot of 112th. St. yesterday (Sept.08) and a fog bank was rolling across the area, but I spied with my little eye, a Whimbrel in the mist...
While the Willet has already been posted, the pair of Willets at Boundary Bay in Delta, just off the 112th. St. pumphouse were still there yesterday (Sept.08) and they gave me some nice views of their distinctive wing markings. Very neat.
Goodness, but that 112th/Boundary Bay dike pump station location has been a veritable gold mine of bird activity. Willets, Whimbrel, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, American Golden Plover (got my shot of it today), Horned Grebe, a couple of different sandpipers...but sadly, no Black Pheobe. Maybe tomorrow!