Christmas Bird Count 2001





CHRISTMAS BIRD			COUNT -2001

Thanks to Angus Matthews and the Pearson College boat, Andrew Harcombe, Ron Satterfield and I were able to get to Race Rocks this morning to count birds. Forty-knot northerlies prevented us from getting out there yesterday for the Sooke Christmas Bird Count. We had 9 ROSA and 6 SURF this morning but the highlight bird was an adult Iceland gull among a group of 1,200 gulls (mostly GWGU and THGU) at the west side of the main island.
Here are the totals observed from Pearson College's boat dock to Race Rocks and the Rocky Point headlands. The vast majority of these birds were at Race Rocks and vicinity.

Alan McLeod

Andrew, Ron and Alan at Race Rocks

Pacific loon 14
common loon 1
horned grebe 1
double-crested cormorant 80
Brandt's cormorant 60
pelagic cormorant 12
harlequin duck 2
surf scoter 30
bufflehead 60
hooded merganser 3
bald eagle 4 ad, 2 im
black oystercatcher 16
black turnstone 6
surfbird 6
rock sandpiper 9
mew gull 15
herring gull 8
Thayer's gull 530
Iceland gull 1
western gull 1
glaucous-winged gull 720
common murre 40
pigeon guillemot 8
marbled murrelet 6
belted kingfisher 1
common flicker 1
Eurasian starling 8

ICELAND GULL at Race Rocks

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