Arrowsmith Naturalists Brant Count March 12, 2024
Hours: 1:30-3:30 PDTTide at beginning of count: 5.3 feetTide at end of count: 7.8 feetRising tide. Weather: mostly clear, light wind, light chop on seaParticipants: 13 Total brant counted: 668 Count covered the entire length of the PQBWMA, divided into three zones:...
Arrowsmith Naturalists Brant Count March 5th 2024
Hours: 1:30-3:30 PM Tide at beginning of count: 12.3 feet - Tide at end of count: 9.6 feet - Falling tide Weather: sun/cloud, light wind., choppy seas Participants: 13 Total brant counted: approx. 527 Count covered the entire length of the PQBWMA, divided into...
A Message from Our Orca Sponsor Mid-Island Co-op
Mid Island Co-op is proud to sponsor the 32 nd Annual Brant Wildlife Festival. Your Mid Island Co-op is truly local. Since 1959 we’ve been 100% community owned, and with now over 70,000 active members, today we’re stronger together than ever before. As a member of Mid...
A Message from The Town of Qualicum Beach, Orca Sponsor
The Town of Qualicum Beach is proud to sponsor the 2024 Brant Wildlife Festival, celebrating the beauty, and diversity of this annual natural wonder that occurs on our shorelines. It is more than just a wildlife festival; it is a celebration of the...
A Message from Our Brant Sponsor – The City of Parksville
Welcoming the Brant to Parksville Beaches The Black Brant geese we see feeding along the shores of Parksville are on a remarkable and arduous journey of migration from California and Mexico to northern nesting grounds. Our beaches provide an abundant food source for...
Estimated Daily Brant Count Report for 2022
PQBWMA Brant Count 2022 Summary Estimated Daily Brant Count Report – 2022 By the Arrowsmith Naturalists For THE NATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA James Goodwin Count Coordinator and Compiler The 2022 Brant Primary Counts covered the full length of the Parksville...
Brant Count – April 19, 2022
Small numbers of Brant were reported from each count area. North: at Surfside Drive West, Little Qualicum Estuary, there were 56 Brant along the shore. Central: French Creek and Columbia Beach, a total of 60 Brant were observed flying east in small groups. There were...
Into the Future
Planning the 2021 Brant Wildlife Festival was like entering uncharted territory. The public health restrictions meant that we could not have gatherings or our traditional events, but with determination and public support, the self-directed festival was a success. This...
Forage Fish – The Foundation of Our Marine Food Web
In Our Waters: Part II by Ross Peterson Forage fish are the foundation of our marine food web. With Pacific sand lance, surf smelt and Pacific herring, these little fish support many of the more obvious icons that we associate with our coast, such as rock fish,...
We acknowledge and thank the Qualicum, Snaw-naw-as, Snuneymuxw, K’ómox, Tseshaht, Hupacasath, and Ditidaht First Nations, on whose traditional lands the Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region is situated within.