Greetings:
This is the report of the Nanaimo Sunday Bird Walk for July
04,1999. The day was cloudy but warm about 18 degrees C. We went
to Neck Point Park which is off Hammond Bay Road,in Nanaimo
There was seventeen of us out today, we saw a total of
thirty-four speces including....
Double-crested Cormorant....3 Pelagic Cormorant....14 Pigeon
Guillemot......3 Common Murre....2 Canada Geese...10 Surf
Scoter....2 Harlequin Duck..2
California Gull..1
Glaucous-winged Gull....8 Great Blue Heron........2 Western
Sandpiper.......2 Bald
Eagle........1 Rufous Hummingbird...4, Female Pileated
Woodpecker...3 Northern Flicker....6
Red-breasted Nuthatch...1 Brown Creeper....2 Chestnut-Backed
Chicadee...14 WinterWren.........2 Bewick's Wren.....3 Belted
Kingfisher...9 Bushtit.......16 Pacific SlopeFlycatcher....4
Willow Flycatcher....8 Am. Robin...30 Swainson's Thrush...2
Hutton's Vireo..2
Warbling Vireo...3 Black-throated Gray Warbler..2
Orange-crowned Warbler.....3 Song Sparrow...10 House Finch....3
Pine Siskin....5
Some of the Highlites: watching one of the Pigeon Guillemot's
fairly close to shore, diving, washing, diving,and preeming, neat
stuff! Also the Western Sandpipers were near the neck, at Neck
Point. We had been hearing the Willowflycatchers since we entered
the park, just before we finished we were able to watch one of
them sing for us for a long spell. The songs of the Warbling
Vireo were entertaining but we didn't get to see them.
Neil Robins, Nanaimo,B.C. Vancouver Island.

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