Recordings from Juan de Fuca Provincial Park

 

My third visit to Juan de Fuca Marine Trail and area, but the last visit was over ten years ago. It’s just as magical as I remember, perhaps more so since I now travel with a sound recorder and I’m pretty tuned into bird songs and other sounds. This visit didn’t disappoint in the birding area, and although I don’t have recordings for all the different birds, the ones I captured turned out pretty well.

Among the birds we heard (and a few we also chanced to see):

  • American Robin
  • Band-tailed Pigeon
  • Black-headed Grosbeak
  • Hermit Thrush
  • Osprey
  • Owl (in the middle of the night – probably Barred – “Who cooks for you?”)
  • Pacific-slope Flycatcher
  • Pacific Wren
  • Red Crossbill (flocks of them!)
  • Stellar’s Jay (with young)
  • Swainson’s Thrush
  • Western Wood-pewee
  • Wilson’s Warbler

 

There are a few recordings of waves, a tough subject. Watching them form off of the beach you might think “oh that’s a big one!” and are perhaps disappointed when it sort of fizzles out as a previous wave washes back away from the shore and causes it to lose strength. I found it fascinating to watch, and rewarding too when a big one had the perfect timing between previous receding waves to reach its full potential and crashed against the shore. 

 

More photographs can be viewed in the Photography gallery.

 

53. Hermit Thrush from the path to Second Beach

 

56. Mystic Beach waves

 

57. Swainson’s Thrush solo (song and calls) accompanied by Botanical Beach waves

 

58. Red Crossbill flock chatter with Botanical Beach waves

 

59. Botanical Beach waves (solo)

 

62. Black-headed Grosbeak sings lead with backup from a Pacific-slope Flycatcher and other songbirds

 

 

 

 

 

Sandcut Beach (the pebbles and rocks were amazing!) © Jodi Caddick

 

View of Second Beach from the Trail © Jodi Caddick

 

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