Sunday, April 11, 2010

Birds #208 and #209

After the somewhat unsuccessful Cheynes Beach trip I had good birding day on Saturday picking up two new species:
  • On the BAWA walk at Woodman Point we saw Arctic Jaegers (Stercorarius parasiticus) - thanks to the crew that ran this walk! The majority of the jaegers kept very high up but a few passed by at low altitudes offering great views.
  • As the walk finished mid-morning I headed on to Herdsman Lake with John Graff and we located a pair of Red-kneed Dotterels (Erythrogonys cinctus). Thanks John!
I didn't get any photographs of these - too focused on getting a good view of them. I don't like my chances of hitting 250 by the end of 2010 (we are in April already) but I'm going to give it a shot anyway.

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