December 17, 2017
It was a dark and stormy night when…No, wait! It was the Squamish Christmas Bird Count! …when twenty-three intrepid souls set forth in the cold and the rain to record all the birds they could find.
What a day! Thanks to all who participated…there would be no count without you. A special thank you to Judy and Patrick for hosting the after count wind-up.
By all reports from the field, the feeling was that it was a tough day to find the birds, there were fewer individuals, and there were misses on species we would have expected.
Totals:
- Number of Species: 67, a bit below average.
- Number of individuals: 7686. (Of that number, 3408 were gulls.)
- Number of bald eagles: 731, sightly below the average and twice as many as last year.
Complete CBC data is available at Bird Studies Canada CBC. Our count code is BCSQ.
Marcia Danielson
Banner photo: We counted 114 Stellar’s Jays (our BC bird), about double the number for the last few years, by Gwen L’Hirondelle.