- Nov 26 6:30 pm
#81531
Are you at the end of a long work-week wondering where to go birding for the weekend or perhaps you are planning a trip to an area looking for the hotspot of the week for some good birding? Maybe you want to find a place with something special to offer where few others tread, even if it's just a good hiking trail or scenery to enjoy but usually has birds, owls, hawks etc?
Give us your requests and in the meantime, each of us can share a favourite hotspot and hideaway (without giving up your coveted soul rock).
Hotspot Victoria-Beacon Hill Park & the SEW (South-east Woods by the totem). you may get a rarity like the Blackburnian Warbler we had one year, for sure you'll see Barred Owls, GHOW, Varied Thrush, the American Black Duck, Bald Eagle pair, Harlan's Hawk when it's here (Nov-Dec), Great Blue Heron, Cooper's Hawk, RTHA, Kingfisher zipping through, warblers, CEDW, 7 little raccoons & a family of River Otter, sometimes the Peregrine Falcon or Merlin.
Hideaway-Thomson Rd (not Thomson Place)- Trail head behind a tree at the end of this short 300 yard Rd off Mt Newton Cross Rd in Central Saanich. winds up past farms, through a woods with owls. Rae-Leigh Heights nearby has CA Quail at the farm on the end. The farms across Mt Newton X have every variety of local owls, many hawks. If you drive back down Mt Newton X to Central Saanich Rd, turn left at the church-the fields on the right have the Skylarks. Happy birding!
Give us your requests and in the meantime, each of us can share a favourite hotspot and hideaway (without giving up your coveted soul rock).
Hotspot Victoria-Beacon Hill Park & the SEW (South-east Woods by the totem). you may get a rarity like the Blackburnian Warbler we had one year, for sure you'll see Barred Owls, GHOW, Varied Thrush, the American Black Duck, Bald Eagle pair, Harlan's Hawk when it's here (Nov-Dec), Great Blue Heron, Cooper's Hawk, RTHA, Kingfisher zipping through, warblers, CEDW, 7 little raccoons & a family of River Otter, sometimes the Peregrine Falcon or Merlin.
Hideaway-Thomson Rd (not Thomson Place)- Trail head behind a tree at the end of this short 300 yard Rd off Mt Newton Cross Rd in Central Saanich. winds up past farms, through a woods with owls. Rae-Leigh Heights nearby has CA Quail at the farm on the end. The farms across Mt Newton X have every variety of local owls, many hawks. If you drive back down Mt Newton X to Central Saanich Rd, turn left at the church-the fields on the right have the Skylarks. Happy birding!
- By GMcD
- By stumblingpiper