Birders,

The following message from the BCVANBIRDS group, mainly about birding
at Point Roberts (Whatcom Co.), may be of interest to some of you.

Wayne C. Weber
Kamloops and Delta, BC
contopus at shaw.ca


----- Original Message -----
From: Kinkaid <kinkaid at look.ca>
To: <bcvanbirds at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 5:54 PM
Subject: [bcvanbirds] Point Roberts to Brunswick Point Saturday


A few hours at Lighthouse Park and Lily Point trying to make up being
snowed out from Viveka Ohman's trip last Sunday. A few Brant, Black
Scoters, Brandt's Cormorants and Pacific Loons, along with good
numbers of Common Loons, Black Turnstones and Harlequins everywhere.
One Hutton's Vireo made a brief appearance in the pine trees at the
campground, otherwise not much of interest.

Lily Point produced three woodpeckers: two Flickers, a very bold
Hairy and a brilliantly red Red-breasted Sapsucker. A large (40-50)
flock of Juncos and a similar flock of Pine Siskins were the only
appearance of those species all day; more noticeable by their failure
to appear anywhere in these woods were Raven, Steller's Jay and
Chestnut-backed Chickadee. Two Long-tailed Ducks offshore and a
Cooper's Hawk chasing the Flickers.

A quick trip up Tsawwassen Jetty brought some White-winged Scoters, a
couple of Eurasian Widgeon, and three or four Black Oystercatchers in
the usual place across the road from the Windsurfer Corner pullout
(but no Willet).

Finally, a quick walk around Brunswick Point in search of Short-eared
Owls was disappointing, though one lonely Snow Goose stood out in the
field with a few hundred Mallards.

Bill Kinkaid