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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 7th. 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 [...]

A Strange Yard Bird

Posted by Sandy McRuer on February 15th, 2008

If you are a birder, you probably keep a life list of all the birds you have ever seen. Many other birders keep a yard list of the birds they have found from within the boundaries of their yard. Others have lists for certain places the visit regularly, for each province, state and country they [...]

A Sunny Day on the Somass Estuary in February

Posted by Sandy McRuer on February 9th, 2008

Not much content on this one, I’m afraid. Just pictures. Last November my wife and I took a trip to the west coast of Mexico. Before the trip we bought a new camera, a Canon S5. It’s go a very powerful 15x zoom on it. So now I can take bird pictures that are actually [...]

A Northern Vancouver Island Pelagic Birding Trip

Posted by Sandy McRuer on February 9th, 2008

It’s way past time for another entry. I’ve got plenty of irons in the fire these days.
One promising iron is a pelagic birding trip for the American Birding Association. They are having a regional convention in Vancouver and Victoria from 30 August to 6 September 2008. And they have asked Rainbird Excursions to put [...]


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