151 – Friends of Ecological Reserves

Visit to Balingall Island by BC Parks staff.

21JulyGarry Fletcher151, Field Notes, Marine Reserves, Reports, Species ListBlack turnstone, Glaucous-winged Gull, Pelagic Cormorant, pigeon guillemot

On July 11, 2014, Roger Allen ( warden) and BC Parks Staff Trudy Chatwin and Hugh McDonald with Darrian (student at UVIC ), visited Balingall Islets Ecological Reserve. Seabird Census for Ballingall Island:. Black Oystercatchers – 2, Pelagic Cormorants – 6 (4 immature, 2 adults), Black Turnstones – 1 , Pigeon Guillemot – 8, Glaucous-winged

Ballingall Islets ER #151 Overview

ORIGINAL PURPOSE To preserve nesting sites of colonial seabirds Physical: This small rocky archipelago is comprised of two islets that are made up of glaciated and wave-worn sedimentary bedrock of the Nanaimo Group, and are oriented in a northwest-southeast direction located between Saltspring and Galiano islands in the Trincomali Channel. These semi-protected islets are barren