We disembarked the ship before 7:00 AM, walked over to the train station, and boarded a train to the Vancouver Airport. I took Air Canada back to Philadelphia by way of Toronto. The only issue was getting through customs in Toronto. Rumors were that there was some kind of labor dispute going on, which caused a huge backlog. They were pulling travelers out of line according to flights and, luckily, holding their planes until they got there. I got to my plane with two minutes to spare.
Despite this minor blip, it was a great trip. I got four life birds among the 140 species. Thanks goes to Paul Lehman for his amazing ablilty to find and quickly identify most of the birds we saw on the cruise. All photos from the trip can be found in my California - Vancouver, BC Photo Album.
California - Vancouver ~ April 25 - May 1, 2015
1) 'Black' Brant (CA)(BC)
2) Canada Goose (BC)
3) Mallard (BC)
4) American Wigeon (BC)
5) Greater Scaup (OR)
6) Harlequin Duck (BC)
7) Surf Scoter (CA)
8) Bufflehead (BC)
9) Red-breasted Merganser (WA)
10) Gambel's Quail (CA)
11) California Quail (CA)
12) Mountain Quail (CA) (heard only)
13) Red-throated Loon (WA)
14) Pacific Loon (CA)(WA)
15) Common Loon (CA)(WA)
16) Laysan Albatross (OR)
17) Black-footed Albatross (CA)(OR)
18) Northern Fulmar (CA)(OR)
19) Murphy's Petrel*** (CA)(OR)
20) Hawaiian Petrel*** (OR)
21) Cook's Petrel*** (CA)
22) Sooty Shearwater (CA)(OR)(WA)
23) Pink-footed Shearwater (CA)(OR)(WA)
24) Leach's Storm-Petrel*** (CA)(OR)
25) Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel (OR)(WA)
26) Black Storm-Petrel (CA)
27) Ashy Storm-Petrel (CA)
28) Brown Booby (CA)
29) Double-crested Cormorant (CA)
30) Brandt's Cormorant (CA)
31) Pelagic Cormorant (WA)
32) Brown Pelican (CA)
33) Great Blue Heron (CA)(BC)
34) Snowy Egret (CA)
35) Great Egret (CA)
36) Turkey Vulture (CA)
37) Bald Eagle (BC)
38) Cooper's Hawk (CA)
39) Red-tailed Hawk (CA)
40) American Kestrel (BC)
41) Black Oystercatcher (CA)(BC)
42) Spotted Sandpiper (CA)
43) Marbled Godwit (CA)
44) Black Turnstone (BC)
45) Red-necked Phalarope (CA)(OR)
46) Red Phalarope (OR)
47) Black-legged Kittiwake (WA)
48) Sabine's Gull (CA)(OR)(WA)
49) California Gull (CA)(WA)
50) Glaucous-winged Gull (WA)(BC)
50a) Glaucous-winged x Western (Puget Sound) Gull (BC)
51) Western Gull (CA)(OR)(WA)
52) Arctic Tern (CA)(OR)
53) Royal Tern (CA)
54) Elegant Tern (CA)
55) Pomarine Jaeger (CA)(OR)
56) Parasitic Jaeger (CA)
57) Long-tailed Jaeger (CA)(OR)
58) Common Murre (CA)(OR)(WA)
59) Pigeon Guillemot (BC)
60) Cassin's Auklet (WA)
61) Rhinoceros Auklet (CA)(OR)(WA)
62) Tufted Puffin (OR)
63) Rock Pigeon (CA)(BC)
64) Eurasian Collared-Dove (CA)
65) Mourning Dove (CA)
66) White-winged Dove (CA)
67) Greater Roadrunner (CA)
68) White-throated Swift (CA)
69) Black-chinned Hummingbird (CA)
70) Costa's Hummingbird (CA)
71) Anna's Hummingbird (CA)(BC)
72) Acorn Woodpecker (CA)
73) Nutall's Woodpecker (CA)
74) Downy Woodpecker (BC)
75) Northern "Red-shafted" Flicker (CA)
76) Western Wood-Pewee (CA)
77) Black Phoebe (CA)
78) Say's Phoebe (CA)
79) Ash-throated Flycatcher (CA)
80) Western Kingbird (CA)
81) Loggerhead Shrike (CA)
82) Bell's Vireo (CA)
83) Warbling Vireo (CA)
84) Steller's Jay (CA)
85) Western Scrub-Jay (CA)
86) Northwestern Crow (BC)
87) American Crow (CA)
88) Common Raven (CA)(BC)
89) Barn Swallow (BC)
90) Cliff Swallow (CA)
91) Oak Titmouse (CA)
92) Mountain Chickadee (CA)
93) Chestnut-backed Chickadee (BC)
94) Verdin (CA)
95) Bushtit (CA)(BC)
96) Red-breasted Nuthatch (BC)
97) White-breasted Nuthatch (CA)
98) Brown Creeper (BC)
99) Canyon Wren (CA)
100) Cactus Wren (CA)
101) House Wren (CA)
102) Black-tailed Gnatcatcher (CA)
103) Western Bluebird (CA)
104) American Robin (CA)(BC)
105) California Thrasher (CA)
106) European Starling (CA)(BC)
107) Phainopepla (CA)
108) Orange-crowned Warbler (CA)(BC)
109) Nashville Warbler (CA)
110) Yellow Warbler (CA)
111) Yellow-rumped "Audubon's" Warbler (CA)(BC)
112) Black-throated Gray Warbler (CA)
113) Hermit Warbler (CA)
114) Townsend's Warbler (CA)
115) MacGillivray's Warbler (CA)
116) Wilson's Warbler (CA)
117) Yellow-breasted Chat (CA)
118) Spotted Towhee (CA)(BC)
119) California Towhee (CA)
120) Black-chinned Sparrow (CA)
121) Lark Sparrow (CA)
122) Savannah Sparrow (BC)
123) Song Sparrow (CA)(BC)
124) White-crowned Sparrow (CA)
125) Lapland Longspur (BC)
126) Western Tanager (CA)
127) Black-headed Grosbeak (CA)
128) Blue Grosbeak (CA)
129) Lazuli Bunting (CA)
130) Tricolored Blackbird (CA)
131) Brewer's Blackbird (CA)
132) Great-tailed Grackle (CA)
133) Hooded Oriole (CA)
134) Bullock's Oriole (CA)
135) Scott's Oriole (CA)
136) House Finch (CA)
137) Lesser Goldfinch (CA)
138) Lawrence's Goldfinch (CA)
139) Evening Grosbeak (CA)
140) House Sparrow (CA)(BC)
(CA) = California
(OR) = Oregon
(WA) = Washington
(BC) = British Columbia
*** = denotes life bird.
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