DARE TO BIRD

We had a great Young Birder Hawk on Sunday with a couple rare hawks! You can read our trip report at the BC Young Birders website HERE Young Birders at the Hawk Watch in West Vancouver 

We had our young birder trip in Delta on August 27th. We went shorebirding in Delta!  You can read about it at the BC Young Birders website HERE Looking forward to our next trip; which is a hawk watch next month Sept 21st ! See you there! Young Birders at Boundary Bay in Delta, BC - Photo: Melissa Hafting

I will be speaking at Word Vancouver about my book “ Dare to Bird ” and discussing birds with 3 other authors with a moderated panel called “For the Love of Birds - Three Authors’ Perspectives.” You can check it out  Sept 20 at 11am at the HSBC Hall at UBC Robson Square at 800 Robson Street in Vancouver. All info on the event can be found here  HERE View this post on Instagram A post shared by Word Vancouver (@wordvancouver)

I co-led a birding trip with Chris Charlesworth to Newfoundland with Avocet Tours in early July.  On July 2nd we met up for dinner in St. John's and the next morning we went to Kent's Pond to look for a reported Tufted Duck and we found a drake at the far end of the pond. There was also a Common Tern flying by and some American Black Ducks.  Tufted Duck in St. John's, NFLD - Photo: Melissa Hafting We then went to Burton's Pond to see the long staying rare Pink-footed Goose. At Burton's Pond we also had a rare for the time of year Eurasian Wigeon drake.      Pink-footed Goose in St. John's - Photo: Melissa Hafting Eurasian Wigeon in St. John's, NL - Photo: Melissa Hafting We then drove towards Cape Pine, on the normally, visually stunning, Irish Loop. Before we reached foggy St. Vincent's we had a Canada Jay and Belted Kingfisher sitting on the wire. After a bathroom break near the famous "Gut" whale viewing site, we continued on towards Cape P...