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Local knowledge about ecotourism, bird watching, nature viewing, wildlife photography, walking, hiking, great beaches, travel and tourism information. Subscribe to Island Nature and learn where and when to see nature on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.</feedburner:browserFriendly><item><title>Redhead</title><link>http://islandnature.ca/2012/05/redhead/</link> <comments>http://islandnature.ca/2012/05/redhead/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 05:16:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dave Ingram</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Bird Watching]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Events]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nature Viewing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Warblers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Waterfowl]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Aythya americana]]></category> <category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Comox Valley]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Courtenay]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Redhead]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Setophaga petechia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Spring Bird Count]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vancouver Island]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Yellow Warbler]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://islandnature.ca/?p=7575</guid> <description><![CDATA[A great day out birding for the Comox Valley Nature spring bird count. Like Christmas Bird Counts, the spring count is an attempt to tally as many species as possible while trying to document the number of individual birds in the count area. Unlike Christmas Bird Counts, the weather is generally a little better. I [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://islandnature.ca/2012/05/redhead/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>WildResearch Pelagic Trip to La Pérouse Bank</title><link>http://islandnature.ca/2012/05/wildresearch-pelagic-trip-to-la-perouse-bank/</link> <comments>http://islandnature.ca/2012/05/wildresearch-pelagic-trip-to-la-perouse-bank/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 04:58:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dave Ingram</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Bird Watching]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nature Viewing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Birding]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Black-footed Albatross]]></category> <category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[La Pérouse Bank]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MV Frances Barkley]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pelagic Birdwatching]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pink-footed Shearwater]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sabine's Gull]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sooty Shearwater]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ucluelet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vancouver Island]]></category> <category><![CDATA[WildResearch]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://islandnature.ca/?p=7548</guid> <description><![CDATA[Despite a painfully stiff back (which I threw on Thursday wrestling with the kids), I made the trek to Ucluelet in order to join the April 29, 2012 WildResearch pelagic trip out to La Pérouse Bank. At the end of the day, this 7 hour off shore tour was nothing short of &#8220;shear&#8221; birding and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://islandnature.ca/2012/05/wildresearch-pelagic-trip-to-la-perouse-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Comox Lake Bluffs</title><link>http://islandnature.ca/2012/04/comox-lake-bluffs/</link> <comments>http://islandnature.ca/2012/04/comox-lake-bluffs/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:23:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dave Ingram</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Destinations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ecoreserve]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Landscapes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nature Viewing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arctostaphylos columbiana]]></category> <category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Comox Lake Bluffs Ecoreserve]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hairy Manzanita]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Luina hypoleuca]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rusty-haired Saxifrage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Saxifraga rufidula]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Silverback Luina]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vancouver Island]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://islandnature.ca/?p=7531</guid> <description><![CDATA[Earlier in April, Jocie and I spent an enjoyable day without the kids revisiting Comox Lake Bluffs Ecological Reserve. The last time we hiked out to this ecological reserve was in May, 2008 with Comox Valley Nature (note the year on the web page is incorrect). Alden was just coming up to age 1 at [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://islandnature.ca/2012/04/comox-lake-bluffs/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review – How to be a Better Birder</title><link>http://islandnature.ca/2012/04/book-review-how-to-be-a-better-birder/</link> <comments>http://islandnature.ca/2012/04/book-review-how-to-be-a-better-birder/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 06:23:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dave Ingram</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Bird Watching]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Birding]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Derek Lovitch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[How to be a Better Birder]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://islandnature.ca/?p=7513</guid> <description><![CDATA[How to be a Better Birder Derek Lovitch Princeton University Press Paperback 192 pages 2012 I&#8217;ve been birding ever since I moved to the West Coast nearly 20 years ago. Back then my strategy was pretty basic. My first field guide was a National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America (I think [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://islandnature.ca/2012/04/book-review-how-to-be-a-better-birder/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Saving the Magnificent Pacific Gaper</title><link>http://islandnature.ca/2012/04/saving-the-magnificent-pacific-gaper/</link> <comments>http://islandnature.ca/2012/04/saving-the-magnificent-pacific-gaper/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:21:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dave Ingram</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Intertidal Zone]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sea Shore]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Shellfish]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bivalves]]></category> <category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Clams]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Horse Clam]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Miracle Beach]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pacific Gaper]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tresus nutallii]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vancouver Island]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://islandnature.ca/?p=7501</guid> <description><![CDATA[It is not often that you see a living horse clam on the surface of the beach unless you have taken the effort to dig one out yourself. That&#8217;s why Jocie and I initially thought that the Pacific gaper (Tresus nuttallii) that we found at Miracle Beach was dead. We quickly realized otherwise after touching [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://islandnature.ca/2012/04/saving-the-magnificent-pacific-gaper/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss><!-- Performance optimized by W3 Total Cache. Learn more: http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpress-plugins/

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