Lost Lagoon looking extra vibrant today thanks to this beautifully coloured male Northern Shoveler.
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This little Song Sparrow paused in a tree after foraging, still wearing a bit of lunch on its beak. Stanley Park moments.
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Varied Thrushes are everywhere at the moment! I saw at least 30 on my afternoon forest outing. This male was one of three ringed. #birdingBC
These Brackendale bald eagles were far in the distance, but still incredible to see. How many can you find?
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California Quail. Rocky Point, British Columbia, Canada. 23 September 2025.
California Quail at Rocky Point last month. Their plume is comprised of six overlapping feathers. #birdingBC
Saturday also wasn’t bad for birds in the Juan de Fuca Straight, including a bunch of Red-necked Phalaropes. A lone bull Orca was a delight too! #birdingBC #mammals
Good birding at Rocky Point yesterday. A Harlequin Duck was terrorising crabs, while numbers of Heermann’s Gull and Brandt’s Cormorant are on the rise. #birdingBC
Franklin’s Gull. Esquimalt Lagoon, British Columbia, Canada. 23 September 2025.
Western Grebe. Esquimalt Lagoon, British Columbia, Canada. 23 September 2025.
A pleasant evening at Esquimalt Lagoon included a vagrant Franklin’s Gull and my first Western Grebe. #birdingBC
Two Sora treated me to incredible views at Rocky Point this morning! Phone pic via binoculars. #birdingBC
Cassin’s Vireo. Pedder Bay, British Columbia, Canada. 08 September 2025.
Hutton’s Vireo. Rocky Point, British Columbia, Canada. 27 August 2025.
Cassin’s and Hutton’s Vireos are scarcely ringed at Rocky Point Bird Observatory. I enjoyed my first of the former today, following a handful of the latter lately. #birdingBC
1CY Clay-coloured Sparrow. Rocky Point Bird Observatory, British Columbia, Canada. 07 September 2025.
1CY Clay-coloured Sparrow. Rocky Point Bird Observatory, British Columbia, Canada. 07 September 2025.
1CY Brewer’s Sparrow (ssp. taverneri). Rocky Point Bird Observatory, British Columbia, Canada. 07 September 2025.
1CY Brewer’s Sparrow (ssp. taverneri). Rocky Point Bird Observatory, British Columbia, Canada. 07 September 2025.
It was a good morning for rare sparrows at Rocky Point! First, the station’s tenth ringing record of Clay-coloured, followed by the first Brewer’s (Timberline) Sparrow to ever be ringed here! #birdingBC
Townsend’s Warbler (1CY male). Sexing features for male include mottled black ear coverts, lores, crown and throat.
Townsend’s Warbler (1CY male). Sexing features for male include white median coverts with narrow, black streaks, and large, rounded, black centres to mantle feathers.
Townsend’s Warbler (1CY male). Sexing features for male include large, rounded, black centres to uppertail coverts, and relatively extensive white on outer rectrices.
First year male Townsend’s Warbler ringed at Pedder Bay yesterday. He provided a great comparison, following successive females. Key sexing features in image descriptions. #birdingBC
Puget Sound White-crowned Sparrows remain our most numerous bird ringed at Rocky Point this autumn. Here’s an adult and a first year from today. #birdingBC
Little time for cycling lately, so a vagrant Ash-throated Flycatcher in Victoria was a good excuse for a 53 km ride today. #birdingBC #LowCarbonBirding
First year Fox Sparrow (Sooty). Rocky Point Bird Observatory, British Columbia, Canada. 27 August 2025.
First year Fox Sparrow (Sooty). Rocky Point Bird Observatory, British Columbia, Canada. 27 August 2025.
The first Sooty Fox Sparrows of the autumn were ringed at Rocky Point this week. I really like them! #birdingBC
A nice start to the day at Rocky Point on Wednesday, with a bull Roosevelt Elk and a Sora in the twilight. Both were new for me (having only heard Sora in ON and BC). 🇨🇦 #mammals #birdingBC
What a stunner! First year male Black-throated Grey Warbler ringed at RPBO Pedder Bay this morning. #birdingBC
Reasonable birding in the Victoria area in the last couple of weeks: American Dipper, Barred Owl, Marbled Godwit and a vagrant Ruff! #birdingBC
Western Warbling Vireo (Vireo swainsoni) ringed at Rocky Point this morning. Newly split, it is now recognised as a species! #birdingBC
First year female Townsend's Warbler ringed at Rocky Point this morning. Our first of the season! #birdingBC
This morning’s ringing at Rocky Point included a juvenile male Black-headed Grosbeak. The early starts are worth it for the views alone! #birdingBC
Mandarte Island. Home to breeding Brandt’s, Pelagic and Double-crested Cormorants.
Bigg’s Orca. Swanson Channel. This male, born in 1995, is known as T019B. Also in this matriline were his mother (T019), who is the oldest Bigg’s Orca in the Salish Sea (thought to be born prior to 1965), along with her younger son (T019C), who was born in 2001.
Killer bird survey in the Salish Sea yesterday. I had a whale of a time! Three species of nesting cormorant and a matriline of Bigg’s Orca, including one thought to be >60 years old! @eaglewingtours.bsky.social #MarineLife #BirdingBC
Juvenile male Cooper’s Hawk ringed at Rocky Point this morning; a less than annual species in the mist nets here. Lovely underwing! #birdingBC
Western Wood-pewee ringed today at Rocky Point. Lower mandible colour is useful in distinguishing from their Eastern counterpart (greater extent of black in Western). #birdingBC
The first pulse of Yellow Warblers are now passing through Rocky Point on their southbound migration. Here’s a hatch year, ringed this morning. #birdingBC
Red-breasted Sapsuckers are seldom captured at RPBO. This youngster was ringed at Pedder Bay on Thursday. #birdingBC
