At 1:30pm on July 4-2021, Denis Shumeyko found and photographed a female Great-tailed Grackle at Esquimalt Lagoon. The bird was foraging along the water on the ocean side and also on the freshwater lagoon side but flies back and forth to both sides.
Map to location HERE
The bird was seen in the same location across from the food trucks as of 5pm.
The bird was last seen on July 19th by the bridge HERE on the lagoon side and and was viewed by multiple observers.
This is the 7th record for BC.
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| Great-tailed Grackle in Colwood - Photo: Warren Lee |
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| Great-tailed Grackle in Colwood - Photo: Geoffrey Newell |
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