A select few birders braved cold temperatures to check out the bird life at the Courtenay Airpark yesterday. Fingers quickly cooled as they manipulated camera settings, but it was worth it to be out under lovely cloudless skies amidst sounds and scenes of nature. At first we were only sighting a lot of a few species (out to feast on the decaying fish), but as we went on, the number of species noted continued to increase until we tallied up at 20: Golden-crowned Sparrows, White-crowned Sparrows, Song Sparrow, Spotted Towhees, Brewer's Blackbirds, Red-winged Blackbirds, European Starlings, American Crows, Bald Eagles, Mallards, American Wigeons, Trumpeter Swans, Dunlins, Green-winged Teals, Common Mergansers, Scaups, Buffleheads, gulls, Killdeer and Canada Geese. Another enjoyable outing.
Photos below by Ian and Dawn.
Photos below by Ian and Dawn.