Hi Tweets,

A late afernoon walk around Pt. Grey. A warm, calm afternoon.


Common Loon 19 ads in Basic molt, 4 jv
Gavia sp. 14 inc. 1 mostly Alt Pac./Arct.-type
Horned Grebe 12 6a, 6jv
Red-necked Grebe 22 18a, 4jv
Eared Grebe 1 Bsc
Western Grebe 16
Aechmoph.grebe sp 15
Double-cr. Cormorant 44 apprx 50% jv
Pelagic Cormorant 1 ad
Great Blue Heron 4 4a
Canada Goose 15 local residents
Green-winged Teal 3
Mallard 5 3m 4f
Northern Pintail 2 2jv/f
American Wigeon 15
Greater Scaup 3 2m 1f
Black Scoter 1 m
Surf Scoter c3,000 more jvs/f, about 40%
White-winged Scoter 16 10m 4f 2jv
Scoter sp. c2,000
Common Merganser c150
Red-br.Merganser 25
Parasitic Jaeger 2 ads, light-morph
Jaeger sp. 1 jv
Bonaparte's Gull c300 apprx 60% Def Bsc, 12 jv
Mew Gull 16
Ring-billed Gull c75 90% ad Bsc
California Gull 11 8a, 3jv/Bsc 1
Glaucous-w. Gull c60 all age groups
Gull sp. c150
Common Tern 40
Sterna sp. 2
Marbled Murrelet 2 First pr I've seen in Burrard Inlet in 3 yrs
Belted Kingfisher 1 jv f
Northern Flicker 1
Steller's Jay 6
Northwestern Crow 4
Black-c. Chickadee 15
Chestnut-b. Chickadee 12
Bushtit 6
Red-br. Nuthatch 2
Bewick's Wren 3
Winter Wren 13
Ruby-cr. Kinglet 3
Hermit Thrush 1 very pale grey-brown Interior form
American Robin 45 lots blew in last week!
Varied Thrush 3
American Pipit 24 on grass
Cedar Waxwing 10
Warbler sp. 1
Spotted Towhee 3
Savannah Sparrow 16
Song Sparrow 11
Lincoln's Sparrow 3
Dark-eyed Junco 4 all 'Oreganus'-type
House Finch 3

In addition, Jericho Pk had 3 jv Pectoral Sandpipers, 1 Long-billed
Dowitcher, Bsc.
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