Vancouver Island Nature Tours

I have had people asking about where to go birding in the west coast of Vancouver Island, especially in the Tofino, Ucluelet, and Pacific Rim National Park area. I promised I would get to it. So here goes. If you plan to visit the area, I strongly suggest that you invest in a spotting scope. [...]

Given my interest in birds, this is something I should have done a long time ago. But over the next few weeks, I am going to change this oversight. For those who aren’t birders, a site guide is a way to guide a person around a park or public place from the point of view [...]

On the weekend I went birding with a couple from Widby Island in Puget Sound Washington State. It’s not very often I give tours to people as local as they are. Heck, they live on the American side of the border from Vancouver Island! But they wanted to get away for the weekend and they [...]

Once in a while I get a call or an email from someone wanting to know about the JV Clyne Bird Sanctuary. JV Clyne was some executive for MacMillan Bloedel, the big timber company that was bought by Weyerhaeuser, which then was bought by Brascan etc. Ya, this is pretty ancient history. Anyway, the area [...]