Vancouver Island Nature Tours

Well, Rainbird is fully into winter mode now! It is -4ºC now and snowing! This is very unusual weather for this time of year. But that’s OK! Because it’s time for the Snow Bus. In addition to offering nature tours and excursions even in the winter, Rainbird operates the Snow Bus taking people up to […]

   
Hi. I just got off the phone with Don Doyle, the Provincial wildlife biologist on the board of the Vancouver Island Marmot Recovery Foundation. And I’m so excited I had to write an entry right away! Don Is a pretty key guy on the board. So his recommendation is very valuable. He says he will recommend […]

    
Rainbird’s Mushroom excursions are a growing success! So much so that we put on an extra tour. The tour included an afternoon of picking mushrooms, primarily Chanterelles, followed by a gourmet dinner featuring the mushrooms we had just picked at Batstar Cafe & Picnic.
Although this year has been a poor year for mushrooms there were plenty of […]