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A Northern Vancouver Island Pelagic Birding Trip
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 on a post convention tour for them. The three-day trip will start in Victoria. We will bus up to Port McNeill on Northern Vancouver Island and use Bill McKay’s powerful and comfortable boat complete with heat and washroom facilities to get to the area around Triangle Island. Located 40 miles North-west of Vancouver Island, Triangle Island is the largest seabird colony in British Columbia. It is a chance to see Cassin’s and Rhinoceros Auklets, Tufted Puffins, Marbled Murrelets as well as other more pelagic species like Northern fulmars, Sooty, Flesh-footed, Buller’s Shearwaters, Black-footed Albatross, and Fork-tailed Petrel. Migration will be underway at that time of year bringing with it Jaegers, Phalaropes and many others. For more about Triangle Island, here’s a link Anne Vallee (Triangle Island) Ecological Reserve.
The trip will be guided by one of the top birders in British Columbia, Guy Monty and myself.
I hope to be opening this trip to the public as well as to the convention delegates. Of course they will come first. But there may be room for more. If you are interested, contact me and I will sent you a detailed itinerary and pricing. Rainbird Excursions Pelagic Trip.
Here are a few pictures the photographer Mike Yip took when he was on a commercial fish boat off Vancouver Island. He has many excellent pictures on his website,
http://vancouverislandbirds.com/. And he has published two beautiful books of the birds of Vancouver Island too.
