Tuesday morning, the Friday Maber Flats crew met at Francis/King Park and had a new species for our lists before we even got fully out of the car. A Cassin’s Vireo was singing loudly just across the road from the parking lot.
Further along the trail, both a Townsend’s Warbler and the first Pacific-slope Flycatcher (which Rick had detected fifteen minutes earlier) of the year also chimed in. Apparently , this was the first Pacific-slope recorded on eBird this year north of Oregon!
This section of the park is heavily wooded including some incredibly big trees. Finding the birds was difficult; photographing them, impossible!
We spent about an hour in the forest and another birding under the powerlines. Very soon, this area will be buzzing with migrants, but it was a little quiet in terms of numbers on Tuesday.
Michael and Rick had work to do, but the rest of us carried on to Mt. Tolmie where Black-throated Grey Warblers had been reported. It was only a matter of a minute or so before the first was seen. A walk through “Warbler Woods”– the Garry Oak woods below the water reservoir–revealed a second, as well as many Orange-crowned, Yellow-rumped, and a singing Chipping Sparrow.
Two male Downy Woodpeckers were duking it out for territory near the top of the hill. They were chasing each other, displaying and jousting pretty much the whole time we were there, providing some interesting photo opportunities. I’ve been pecked by Downies before and know that their dainty bills can still do damage!
It was pretty active on Mt. Tolmie, even though it was approaching lunchtime. A Brown Creeper stopped by to sing us a song and pose for a photo.
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Adding the Black-throated Grey gave me an incredible four new species for the day. And I had just enough time to head up Mt. Doug to look for the elusive Townsend’s Solitaire before I headed to the Lodge at Broadmead where I was giving a slide show at the Veteran’s Health Centre. I ran into birders Mike and Jo Motek at Mt. Doug but sadly, no solitaire by the time I had to leave.
After the slide show, my next stop was Panama Flats where Steven Roias had reported a Lesser Yellowlegs and Least Sandpipers the previous evening. I managed to find one Least Sandpiper, making Tuesday a five bird day!
Other birds at the flats included two Osprey and two American Pipits.
An outburst of hail sent me running for cover, but cleared up just enough to give me one last attempt at a solitaire on Observatory Hill. No luck, but hey, five birds in one day isn’t going to happen too many more times this year!