Island Time Last week I packed up my car and headed to southern Vancouver Island. With my SUV acting as a mobile motel, a fully stocked cooler, and a small propane stove, I could be very Covidish antisocial. On my list were some rarities that had been hanging around for a while like the Tufted Duck in the Duncan sewage ponds and the American Black Duck in Yellowpoint. I had told myself I wouldn’t make the mistake I made with the Red Backed Shrike last year. It showed up in Powell River and I told myself, I’d be over there in a few days anyhow, so 4 days later, I go over and of course it had gone by then. I think the birding gods were smiling on me those couple days. Almost everything I was looking for, I found. Some of them were almost too easy. I drove by the Victoria Airport to find the Mountain Bluebirds ( I knew I could find them later in the year, but why wait). I slowed my car down and there they were, 5 meters away, on the fenc...