page_title: Crescent Beach, Surrey
section_title: Blackie Spit birdwatching
hierarchical_section_title: Crescent Beach, Surrey / Recreation / Blackie Spit birdwatching
caption_attribution_description: English: North-facing view of Mud Bay from Blackie Spit in Crescent Beach, Surrey, British Columbia. Skyscrapers in New Westminster and North Shore Mountains are visible in far background.
context_page_description: Crescent Beach is a beachside community within the South Surrey town centre of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada next to Boundary Bay and Mud Bay across from the municipality of Delta. It is home to 1,200 residents, mostly in single-family homes.
context_section_description: The northernmost portion of Crescent Beach is Blackie Spit, named after a settler and known as a birdwatching site beside Mud Bay and near Nicomekl River. The City of Surrey created Blackie Spit Park in 1996.
  The park is an annual migration rest stop for the Pacific Flyway for 300 species of birds including 10,000 ducks and geese. It is the only area in Boundary Bay where purple martins nest. The eelgrass meadows, mud flats and tidal marsh serve as bird habitats year-round. Shorebirds feed off biofilms, a paper-thin mucus, that consist of bacteria, diatoms (microscopic plants) and organic detritus.
caption: North-facing view of Mud Bay at high tide from Blackie Spit. Skyscrapers in Burnaby and the North Shore Mountains visible in distant background
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