As I noted in my introduction to my Vancouver Island Big Year, if I waited to have a commitment-free year, I’d never even start this adventure.  I am currently en route to the Morro Bay Bird Festival, an event I’ve wanted to attend for several years.

This morning, I left Victoria with high hopes of adding maybe three species to my list as I travelled on the ferry between Swartz Bay and Active Pass.  Here was the view just as the bird activity should have been picking up.

Needless to say, my list remains at 121 species for the year, and will do so until I return to the “zone” next week.

In the meantime, I will be making the trek southward with Shawneen Finnegan, and I couldn’t be happier.  Shawneen will be a keynote speaker at the festival, is an amazing artist, one of the top birders around and just an all-round good person.  We will be stopping for birds and people along the way there and back. This will be an excellent week!

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I won’t update this blog with birds that I see over the next week or so, but I will do periodic updates if there are any special birds that I hear that I am missing, just to get them on record.  When I return to Vancouver Island, I’ll also be launching a new page on this blog which will allow you to see where I’m birding in real time, and invite you to join me if you wish.  That could be fun, and will definitely keep me motivated to get out there a lot!

Good birding!