Time 11:15
Tide at the beginning of count: 5.7 feet
Tide at the close of count: 5.8 feet
Turning tide
Weather: clear, light breeze, calm sea, then rippled
Participants: Sandra Gray, Dan Gray, Claire Summers, Bonnie Mullins, Dave Erickson, Tom Whitfield, Liz Thorne, Jim Thorne, Dennis Horwood, Jane Osborne, Gene Gapsis, Meghan MacIsaac, Liz Bredberg
Total brant counted: 23
Zone 1: North area: from Qualicum Beach Viewing Stand north to the mouth of the Little Qualicum River.
Total brant counted in area: 3 flying near Surfside Dr. #
- Seaside Nature Park: bufflehead, horned grebes in breeding plumage, red-breasted mergansers hunting, common loons, few gulls
- Surfside Dr. E. 3 brant flying, 25+ bufflehead, 18 red-breasted mergansers, 19 horned grebes, 23+ pacific loons, 6 common loons, gonaparte’s gulls, scattered gulls—gull numbers down considerably
Zone 2: Central area: from French Creek Marina to south end of Seacrest
Total brant counted in area: 0
- French Creek Marina, west side: Bonaparte’s gulls, loons, 5 murrelets, horned grebes, red necked mergansers, common mergansers
- French Creek Marina, east side: common mergansers, mallards, 2 killdeer
- Columbia Beach: Great Blue Heron, 4 murrelets, gulls, loons, mallards, Bonaparte’s gulls
- Admiral Tryon West: bald eagle, crows, yellowlegs. 1 pedestrian
- Johnstone St.: cormorant sp., loon, mallard, greater yellowlegs
- Butterball: 2 Bald eagles, crows, loons, c. mergansers
- Seacrest: 1 bald eagle
Zone 3: South area: Madrona Point, Rathtrevor Beach, Brant point, West end of Mariner Way, Parksville Bay
Total brant counted in area: 20
- Rathtrevor: 20 brant, common mergansers, 1 loon sp
- Mariner Way: 0 brant
- City Park: 0 brant, loons, 1 lesser yellowlegs.