Iona, TFJ, PR Aug 20 07

[Dave]

My brother and I went down to Vancouver yesterday afternoon to see what there was to see. It was his first birding trip to the area and he picked up 28 life birds. (A similar trip was only a few years ago for me!) We went to Iona, TFJetty, and Point Roberts. Iona was full of shorebirds, TFJ was almost "duckless", Point Roberts had exciting flybys every minute.

Here is the list of ocean type birds:

Great Blue Heron
Pelagic Cormorant
Brandt’s Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Canada Goose
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
American Coot
Greater Scaup
Gadwall
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
American Wigeon
Mallard
Green-winged Teal
Common Goldeneye
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
Pigeon Guillemont
Rhinocerous Auklet
Common Murre
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Mew Gull
Bonaparte’s Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Least Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Bairds Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Semi-palmated Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Wilson’s Phalarope
Long-billed Dowitcher
Killdeer
Black Turnstone
Black Oystercatcher


Lesser Yellowlegs at Iona ponds


Wilson's Phalarope at Iona ponds


Bairds Sandpiper at Iona ponds..correct ID?


Caspian Tern at Lighthouse Marine Park


Rhino Auklet at Lighthouse Marine Park (about the closest I could get to them..and the Common Murres out there.)


Black Turnstone at Lighthouse Marine Park

[Gord]

Right on! Glad Tom got a chance to go there. Nice pictures as always. I like that turnstone and the yellowlegs! You 100% spot on for the juv Baird's too.