Doug Brown, whom I'm sure some of you will know took a group of us on a
birdwalk Saturday morning to Porpoise Bay Provincial Park in Sechelt here on
the Sunshine Coast.

Here is what we saw:

Barrows Goldeneye 20
Surf Scoters 30
White Winged Scoters 4
Mallards 10
Common Loon 5
Horned Grebe 12
Common Mergansers 3
Buffleheads 15
Pelagic Cormorants 4
Double Crested Cormorants 8
Glaucous-winged Gulls 50
Mew Gulls 5
Ring-billed Gulls 2
Bonaparte Gulls 8
Belted Kingfisher 1
Killdeer 4
Dunlins 6
Dipper 1
Song Sparrow 10
Golden Crowned Sparrow 1
Spotted Towhee 4
Varied Thrush 3
Blue Heron 1
Bald Eagle 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6
Golden-crowned Kinglet 40
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 6
Winter Wren 4
Pine Siskin 60
Northern Flicker 2

Great morning and learned a bit more how to identify gulls.

Gerrie Patterson
Gibsons, B.C.
birdsabundant at sunshine.net