A Northern Vancouver Island Pelagic Birding Trip - Update

Posted by Sandy McRuer on February 26th, 2008

The pelagic trip I wrote about earlier this month is now officially going to happen.

The date of the trip is Sept 6. It will be the only pelagic birding trip in a boat with a heated cabin and on-board washroom facilities offered on the west coast of Canada this summer.

For those of you who don’t know what birding is, it is bird watching. Bird watchers often keep life lists of all the birds they have every seen. Some go further keeping lists of birds seen in North America, in Canada, in British Columbia, on Vancouver Island and even in their back yard. Some keep crazy bird lists, like birds I’ve identified from an outhouse, on television, while driving etc.
Anyway, for Canadian Birders this is a chance to pad your Canadian list with pelagic specialties from the west coast. The trip leaves from Port McNeill, Northern Vancouver Island. The boat is called the Naiad and is operated by skipper Bill McKay of McKay’s Whale watching. Here’s a link about the boat:

http://www.whaletime.com/tours_boat.cfm

This trip was instigated by the American Birding Association or ABA. They are having a convention in Vancouver in late August-early September 2008. I was asked to put on a pelagic trip for them post conference. So the spots on the trip are available first to the ABA delegates to the conference. I will be keeping a list of those interested who are not ABA delegates. Contact me: info@rainbirdexcursions.com

Previous Articles

A Strange Yard Bird

Posted by Sandy McRuer on February 15th, 2008

A Sunny Day on the Somass Estuary in February

Posted by Sandy McRuer on February 9th, 2008

A Northern Vancouver Island Pelagic Birding Trip

Posted by Sandy McRuer on February 9th, 2008

Bear Tracks - Our Motto In Peril

Posted by Sandy McRuer on December 9th, 2007

RIDES TO MOUNT WASHINGTON - VANCOUVER ISLAND

Posted by Sandy McRuer on November 26th, 2007

A MUSHROOM TOUR OF A LIFETIME

Posted by Sandy McRuer on October 31st, 2007

A Bumper Crop of Chanterelle Mushrooms!

Posted by Sandy McRuer on October 9th, 2007

Birding the West Coast of Vancouver Island

Posted by Sandy McRuer on October 2nd, 2007

Bears Now on the Somass River on Vancouver Island

Posted by Sandy McRuer on August 30th, 2007

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