1:25-3:10
Tide at the beginning of count: 8.9 feet
Tide at the close of count: 6.6 feet
falling tide
Weather: initially overcast, light breeze increased, cold rain by end of count
Participants: 11
Numbers of participants were reduced, so 3 zones of count were divided into two areas.
Total brant counted: 1942
Zones 1 and 2: Johnstone Rd to Surfside Dr. E
Total brant 1300
- Johnstone Rd: 150 Brant
2 Greater Yellowlegs, crows, 1 purple finch, Bewick’s wren, gulls, eagle
- Butterball: 0 brant, 148 wigeon, 2 seals,
- Seacrest: 0 brant. gulls, crows, dabblers
- QB viewing stand: mix of scoters (60%), and scaup (40%)—20,000, 600+ gulls, crows
- Surfside Dr. E 1150 brant, 250 dunlin, Black turnstones, 200+ scoters, Scattered divers and dabblers, 240 wigeons, 3200 gulls
Zones 2 and 3
Rathtrevor Beach, Brant point to Admiral Tryon West
Total brant counted: 642
- Rathtrevor: 500 brant. Tide low, brant in 3 groups at water’s edge, gulls, no dogs noted, 8 people on beach
- Mariner Way: 60 brant. In four small groups flying south, 12 brant on gravel bat
- Parksville Beach: 70 brant, flew in from the south, mallards, buffleheads, gulls, mergansers 3 eagles
- French Creek East: 0 Brant, gulls, rain beginning, wind increasing
- French Creek West: 0 Brant, gulls, crows, wigeons, rain increasing
- Columbia Beach: 0 Brant, 6 oystercatchers.
- Admiral Tryon W: 0 Brant, no eagles, 3 crows, visibility poor due to rain and wind