Lighthouse Marine Park.

A quick blast down to the park this morning yielded the following
highlights.

Tide out, winds from SE
Black Turnstones (3) on rocky beach
Small Calidris sp. (1) flyby
Common Loon (1)
Red-throated Loon (1) Def. Alt. Plumage
Rhinocerous Auklets (6)
Caspian Tern (1)
Canada Goose (7) flyby

The RTLO was a real surprise. At first I thought it was a Pacific until
it turned to face the shore when I noted the obvious red throat patch
and slight, upturned bill. The Vancouver bar graph checklist doesn't
show this bird for July and I wonder how frequent a sighting of this
nature occurs?

Ken Klimko
Richmond, BC
kkalimo at direct.ca