Unlike the Whitesnake song referenced in today’s blog title, I am NOT doing this on my own this time. Yes, I am back on Quadra Island, determined to get a Great Gray check on my year list. Plan A was to pack up the camper van I bought specifically for birding adventures and to come to Quadra and stay until I found the owl. My van had other ideas though. Gas-guzzler that it is, I only use it when I need a van, which hasn’t been that often over the winter. It wasn’t a surprise when the battery was low. (Yes, I know I should start it up more often. Noted.) That wasn’t a problem. I have a charger and know how to use it. However, even when the battery was charged, the engine wouldn’t turn over. Ugh! No time to troubleshoot and repair it before I had to leave.
On to Plan B. I drove up to Quadra this evening to stay at the Boutique Hostel, meeting up with Martha Keller and Brian Hume, who will be part of the team trying to find the owl on Saturday. Normally this place is filled with tree planters, but they have the weekend off. It’s a beautiful lodge with room for 16, but tonight it’s just us birders. I’m sure it’s not normally this quiet. Guy Monty, Christopher Stephens and Dave Erickson will be joining us as well for the owl chase. Formidable!
Catching up with the activities of the last few days, I was pretty close to home since Tuesday. Every day, I got a little bit of birding in, and while I’ve filled in a couple of “county” cells (including Barrow’s Goldeneye in Saanich Inlet, and finally, White-throated Sparrow at Panama Flats) in my species list, nothing new to report.
Spring is definitely springing here, though, with dawn chorus getting underway even though it’s only the middle of February. Pacific Wrens are doing rap battles in my yard every morning, American Robins are heralding the pending change of season, and Anna’s Hummingbirds are plucking fluff from the cattail hanging next to their feeder. Reports of swallows at Swan Lake sent me back there. While I didn’t find any swallows, I did see a very orange-faced Double-crested Cormorant.
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Meanwhile, on Quadra Island, that owl has been seen every day this week — except Monday when I was last here. Carla has been tracking its comings and goings, and if it holds true to pattern, we have a decent chance to catch up with it on Saturday. We’ll see!
Harris’s Sparrow update: Eric Demers saw it again Friday, in the afternoon, at the Nanaimo River Estuary. Sigh!
Fingers crossed for the morning!