Since it was a nice day the other day, I went out to East Sooke Park to hike out to Beechey Head to see what hawks and other birds were congregating for they exit from the island for the winter.
Above the fields there was a Peregrine surveying for some nice tidbits, possibly the cedar waxings or the robins eating the Mountain Ash berries.
Nice and clear and sunny with no wind was what I encountered at the lookout. Not much good for hawk watching. Lots of turkey vultures far in the distance and every once and awhile a red-tailed hawk or a sharp-shinned hawk showed over the ridge for a few minutes before heading off back over the ridge
4 Greater-white fronted geese flew over heading east but not south.
A Sharp-shinned came by near enough to get a poor shot of it .
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the view was spectacular though, with the waves crashing on the rocks but no whales today. apparently there were lots the other day
A rescue helicopter flew by and basically that was it for the raptors. After that not much showed up. The S and R was looking for 2 men that fell out of their kayaks. a flock of Band-tailed pigeons flew by as well.
After returning Aylard farms I looked across the bay and found about 1100 turkey vultures circling in several kettles over the small hills to the west, they looked like mosquitoes.
