Photo: Angie Ooms
Time 1:20-2:30
Tide at the beginning of count: 10.4 feet
Tide at the close of count: 9.3 feet
falling tide
Weather: Clear, light wind, choppy sea
Participants: Sandra Gray, Dan Gray, Gene Gapsis, Meghan MacIsaac, Claire Summers , Bonnie
Mullin, Dave Erickson, Catherine Watson, Liz Thorne, Jim Thorne, Liz Bredberg
Total brant counted: 630
Zone 1: North area: from Qualicum Beach Viewing Stand north to the mouth of the Little Qualicum River.
- QB viewing stand: 0 Brant, gulls, 15 American wigeons
- Qualicum Beach: 0 Brant, gulls, 12 dunlin,
- Kincade: 0 Brant, gulls, 40 bufflehead, 2 red-breasted mergansers, mallards, 50
wigeons, 2 northern pintail - E. Surfside 30 Brant
Zone 2: Central area: from French Creek Marina to south end of Seacrest
Good visibility, light chop, steady wind, crashing waves. Outgoing tide with many pools
exposed.
- French Creek mouth: 0 Brant, 150+ American wigeon, 4 killdeer, mallard, gulls
- Adm. Tryon E: 0 brant, Bonaparte’s gulls, group of red-breasted mergansers huntin
- Adm. Tryon W. 0 Brant, gulls, wigeon, incubating eagle
- Butterball: 0 Brant, 225+ dunlin, 10+ turnstones, more gulls and wigeon, 1 kestrel
- Seacrest: 0 Brant, 145+ dunlin, turnstones and wigeon mixed with gulls
Zone 3: South area: Rathtrevor Beach, Brant point, West end of Mariner Way, Parksville Bay
- Rathtrevor Beach, 600 Brant, 2 Great Blue Herons, 4 Harlequin ducks, 1 oyster catcher
- Mariner Way: 0 Brant, 1 GB heron, 4 harlequins, 1 oyster catcher
- PV Park: 0 Brant, 1 GH heron, mallards
- 1 unleashed dog