Eight Sunday birders from Nanaimo went to Victoria for a day of birding
on Thursday September 25. We went to Equimalt Lagoon, Witty?s Tower
Point, Albert Head, East Sooke Regional Park and Goldstream Provincial
Park.
The big highlights were an estimated 3000 Turkey Vultures riding high
above the water on thermals, they were quite far away none the less a
great sight.
Another great find was two Golden Eagles at Goldstream Provincial Park,
high near the top of the cliffs we saw them moving back and forth along
the cliffs and then catching a thermal and they soon disappeared. It was
a good day of birding with the following sixty species.

Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Mute Swan
Canada Goose
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
Common Merganser
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Golden Eagle
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
California Quail
Black Turnstone
Heermann's Gull
Mew Gull
California Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Thayer's Gull
Common Murre
Pigeon Guillemot
Marbled Murrelet
Rhinoceros Auklet
Rock Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Steller's Jay
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
Cedar Waxwing
American Dipper
American Robin
European Starling
Bewick's Wren
Bushtit
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
American Pipit
House Finch
Orange-crowned Warbler
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Spotted Towhee
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird

Good birding!
Neil Robins
Nanaimo
British Columbia.