Vancouver Island Nature Tours

It is at this time of year a small but growing number of people sit back and think about all the birds they saw over the last year. They pull out their records and count their year list of species seen. A great many birders are inveterate listers – a list for the back yard; [...]

Christmas Waxwing Originally uploaded by TheRainbird Bohemian Waxwings are very unusual for Vancouver Island. They are birds of the interior of British Columbia and the Prairies. But we have had record-breaking cold temperatures leading up to Christmas and for the first time in many years, a white Christmas. Perhaps these birds were driven here by [...]