Vancouver Island Nature Tours

Every year for the past 17 years I have organized the Christmas Bird Count. We’ve had our ups and downs over the years.  Sometimes it’s weather other times its people. We’ve had remarkable finds in the past too. Some notable finds have been a Cattle Egret from 1992, tundra Swans in 1995 & ’96 a [...]

I’d like to take the opportunity to wish all the readers who come here over the next month or so a warm greeting. This image was taken during an unusually early snowstorm a couple of weeks ago. I photo-shopped it to make it look like a drawing.  It ‘s a Varied Thrush. Which reminds me [...]