A beautiful morning to be birding so we enjoyed our time on the trail despite rather sparce sightings along the way. Today's outing was along the exterior of the CFB Comox fencing, above Kye Bay beach. A few of us then drove down the hill to the Kye Bay Park where we left our cars to walk to the end of Kye Bay Rd, checking for song birds and offshore birds along the way. Leaves and blossoms were evident everywhere on the trees and shrubs, signaling the end of easy bird sightings. Boy, those little birds are masters at hiding themselves! We did hear a fair amount of bird song and chatter, though, which allowed us to add Yellow Warbler and Pacific Wren to our list of birds noted along the way. Oh...and we also heard a Woodpecker rat-tat-tatting on a tree somewhere. Our prize was sighting a Merlin perched in a distant tree.
So...birds outside the Base fencing totalled fifteen: Merlin, Chipping Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, Golden-crowned Sparrow, Spotted Towhee, American Robin, European Starling (at its tree nest hole), Bald Eagle, Great Blue Heron, Anna's Hummingbird, Scaup and Surf Scoters sighted offshore from the hilltop and then the woodpecker, Yellow Warbler and the Pacific Wren.
Along Kye Bay Rd and sighted offshore at road-end, we saw/heard fifteen species (some replications of what was seen at the first location): White-crowned Sparrows, Chipping Sparrow, House Finch, European Starlings, American Robin, Spotted Towhee, American Crow, Violet-green Swallows, Bald Eagle, Great Blue Heron, gulls, Common Loon, Red-necked Grebe, Surf Scoters and again, the Yellow Warbler sounds.
Photos by Steve and Dawn.
So...birds outside the Base fencing totalled fifteen: Merlin, Chipping Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, Golden-crowned Sparrow, Spotted Towhee, American Robin, European Starling (at its tree nest hole), Bald Eagle, Great Blue Heron, Anna's Hummingbird, Scaup and Surf Scoters sighted offshore from the hilltop and then the woodpecker, Yellow Warbler and the Pacific Wren.
Along Kye Bay Rd and sighted offshore at road-end, we saw/heard fifteen species (some replications of what was seen at the first location): White-crowned Sparrows, Chipping Sparrow, House Finch, European Starlings, American Robin, Spotted Towhee, American Crow, Violet-green Swallows, Bald Eagle, Great Blue Heron, gulls, Common Loon, Red-necked Grebe, Surf Scoters and again, the Yellow Warbler sounds.
Photos by Steve and Dawn.