Surf Scoter - White Rock Pier, BC
White Rock pier offer some of the best viewing of these sea ducks. Surf Scoter spend the winter around Vancouver shores diving for clams and other shellfish in groups as large 4000 birds. In summertime they are found on their breeding grounds in fresh water lakes around the northern parts of Canada and Alaska. There are three species of Scoter that live here in North America, including the White-winged Scoter and the Black Scoter and all can be seen off the pier in White Rock.