Trip report for March 6, 1994 to Boundry Bay BC and Reifel Bird Sanctuary

North of BC 99, viewed from Ladner Trunk Road.
Bald Eagle
Read-tailed Hawks
Gulls

The above birds were soaring high, observed some of the hawks and eagles
doing courtship rolls.

Boundry Bay and 72nd St approaching Boundry Bay

1 Snowy Owl (8, 7 visible from one spot 3/4 mi. E of 72nd)
2 Great Blue Heron (to many to count)
3 Bald Eagles (to many to count)
4 Northern Shrike (2)
5 Northern Harrier (male, plus a couple females)
6 Brewer's Blackbird
7 Red-tailed Hawk
8 Western Meadowlark
9 Song Sparrow
10 Rough-legged Hawk
gull (to distant to identify)
duck (to distant to identify)
shorebird flock in flight, probably Dunlin
11 Merlin (Merlin was hunting the shorebirds.)


Reifel Bird Sanctuary

1 Mallard (Male and female)
2 Common Merganser (Pairs)
3 Pelagic Cormorant
4 Double-crested Cormorant
5 Pied-billoed Grebe
6 Glaucous-winged Gull
7 Herring Gull
8 Black-crowned Nightheron
9 Great Blue Heron
10 Snow Goose
11 Northern Pintail
12 Northern Shoveler
13 Gadwall
14 Green-winged Teal
15 Bufflehead
16 Goldeneye (female)
17 Greater Yellowlegs
18 Lesser Yellowlegs
19 Trumpeter Swan
20 Sandhill Crane
21 Northern Saw-whet Owl (Or so we're told, only saw his underside)
22 Great Horned Owl (Or so we're told, only saw his feet and tail)
23 Cooper's Hawk
24 Red-tailed Hawk
25 Rough-legged Hawk
26 Gyrfalcon
27 Black-capped Chickadee
28 Dark-eyed Junco
29 White-crowned Sparrow
30 Golden-crowned Kinglet
31 Bushtit
32 Ring-necked Pheasant
33 Song Sparrow
34 Rufous-sided Towhee
35 Red-winged Blackbird
36 Golden-crowned Sparrow
37 House Finch
38 Rock Dove
39 American Robin
40 Canada Goose
41 American Crow
42 Common Raven
43 Marsh Wren (audio only)

50 species total