Northern Saw-Whet Owl Delta B.C.

Delta!!!!!!!!

  My parents and I went on a day trip to Delta B.C.. At our first stop we saw lots of cool birds, all of which I'd already seen this year until we spotted a Northern Saw-whet Owl and a Great Horned. At our second destination we saw six Short-eared Owls, an American Bittern and a few Western Meadowlarks all of which are new birds for me.

Finaly

The Brown Creeper and the Cackling Goose are two birds I have been looking for since march. However I  have just seen them in the last three weeks.

MORE!

I was lucky enough to see a Mute Swan in the Courtenay area which is not especially common!
Because this is my favorite swan I made a time lapse painting of it!!!!!!!!!:)

Black- winged Stilt / Horned Puffin (time lapse)

                                 These are my first time lapse paintings, I hope you like them!

Horned Puffin

Black-winged stilt

                                                           

Kestrel Cake

I turn 12 soon but I had an early birthday party. Take a look at the home made cake!!!!!!!!!!

 My mom is an amazing cook!

BIRD ALERT !!!!!

Snowy Plovers are very rare on Vancouver island but a stray landed on a beach in Tofino! Toby, her dad and I were fortunate enough to see it! This is the most rare bird Toby and I have seen so far this year!(:
 
P.S. I sketched this.
P.P.S.Thanks to Toby's dad I saw this!

My friends Toby and Rowan also have blogs!


   Toby's :   http://birdymcbirdface.blogspot.com
   Rowan's : http://rowanafoat.blogspot.com

FIRST FLIGHT (Eaglet).

Oh My God It's A Smew!

Update

Hi every one, sorry I have not posted for a while but I've been seeing lots of birds lately. Hears a little update of some of the birds I've seen!  :)

~  Loons: Pacific, Common
~  Grebes: Red-necked, Western
~ Cormorants: Brant's, Double-crested, Pelagic
~ Herons: Great Blue, Black-crowned night
~ Vultures: Turkey
~ Geese, Swans, and Ducks: Canada Goose, Brant, Trumpeter Swan, Wood Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, American Wigeon, Mallard, Northern Shoveler,  Northern Pintail, Green-winged Teal, Greater Spaup, Surf Scoter, Bufflhead, Common Golden Eye, Hooded Merganser, Common Merganser, Red-breasted Merganser
~ Raptors: Osprey, Bald Eagle, Northern Harrier, Red-tail Hawk, American Kestrel, Merlin
~ Grouse: Ruffed Grouse
~ Coots: American Coot
~ Cranes: Sandhill Crane
~ Shore Birds: Black-bellied Plover, Semipalmated Plover, Killdeer, Black Oystercatcher, Grater Yellowlegs, Willet, Whimbrel, Marbled Godwit, Black Turnstone, Western Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Dunlin, Long-billed Dowitcher, Red-necked Phalarope
~ Gulls &Terns: Western Gull, Black-legged Kittiwake, Caspian Tern
~ Murres & Auklets: Common Murre, Pigeon Guillemot, Marbled Murrelet
~ Doves: Rock Dove, Eurasian Collared-dove
~ Hummingbirds:Rufous (there is an active nest on the island we live on)
~ Woodpeckers: Red-Breasted Sapsucker, Northern Flicker
~ Corvids: Gray Jay, Steller's Jay, Northwestern Crow, Common Raven
~ Swallows: Tree, Violet-green, Northern Rough-winged, Barn
(And lots more)

Costa Rica and Nicaragua 2015

My parents and I went to Central America last winter and although I was not as obsessed with birds back then, I was still amazed by the birds we saw!(My parents and I took these photos!)

White-throated magpie-jay

Great Egret

Green Heron

Black-Crowned Night-Heron

Little Blue Heron

Purple Gallinule

Collared aracari

Keel Billed Toucan

Resplendent Quetzal

Emerald Toucanet

Blue-Crowned Motmot

Male American Kesrtel

I nearly caused a car crash by screaming "stop the car!"when I saw an American Kestrel on a power line. There turned out to be a pair of these amazing birds (one male and one female)! So I rushed home and painted this little guy!

Female Ring-necked Pheasant

My parents and I saw pheasants last month. We saw both male and female.
However  I feel quite sorry for the females because the males are all everyone cares about, so I painted one in tribute.

Male Hooded Merganser (Breeding)

The hooded merganser is one of my favorite ducks even though it is extremely common here on the coast. I painted this duck with one of my best friends (Toby) who also has a blog called  (Birdy McBirdface).