Hello Tweeters,
Laura Jordison here again. My birthday is tomorrow (April 3rd), but I
received an early gift from my parents. A Bushnell Sentry spotting scope! I
was so astonished! It came with a table top tripod and a hard black case.
Luckily my dad's camera tripod works with it (and the camera tripod is nice
and light). The next morning I went on a birding trip with my birding buddy
Richard to Iona Island. We met near the South Jetty at 7:00 a.m. and were
there until 9:00 a.m. These are the birds we saw:
-Great Blue Heron
-Mew Gull
-Glaucous-winged Gull
-Double-crested Cormorant
-Eurasian Wigeon
-Canvasback
-Northern Pintail
-Green-winged Teal
-Bufflehead
-American Wigeon
-Northern Shoveler
-Mallard
-Greater Scaup (dead!, probably flew into chain link fence, had broken neck)
-American Coot
-Ruddy Duck
-Gadwall
-Canada Goose
-Killdeer
-Ring-necked Pheasant (heard, not seen)
-Bald Eagle
-Northern Harrier
-Tree Swallow
-Northern flicker
-American Robin
-House Sparrow
-Golden-crowned Sparrow
-Fox Sparrow
-Song Sparrow
-Red-winged Blackbird
-Brewer's Blackbird
-Marsh Wren
-House Finch
-European Starling
-Northwestern crow
After this trip, I then headed to Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary by myself.
An interesting day, and I was better able to use the scope!
Saw:
-Common Merganser
-Pied-billed grebe
-Double-crested Cormorant
-Trumpeter Swan
-Dunlin
-Hooded Merganser
-Great Blue Heron
-Sandhill Crane
-Wood Duck
-American Wigeon
-Northern Shoveler
-Mallard
-american Coot
-Gadwall
-Snow Goose (many thousands!)
-Canada Goose
-Great Horned Owl (has 2 or 3 babies; I only saw 2)
-Rock Dove
-Tree swallow
-Spotted towhee
-American robin
-House Sparrow
-White-crowned Sparrow
-Golden-crowned Sparrow
-Fox Sparrow
-Song Sparrow
-Red-winged Blackbird
-Black-capped Chickadee
-Northwestern Crow
-Northern Harrier
-Eurasian Wigeon
-Bewick's Wren
It was a beautiful day out and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Hoping to go on
more outings soon.
Laura Jordison
Ladner, BC
lebaron85 at hotmail.com






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