This is the Vancouver, B.C. Bird Alert for Sunday May 30th, 9:30pm
update.

Featured birds for today's update include:

RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
AMERICAN REDSTART
GRAY CATBIRD
LEWIS' WOODPECKER and
CHIPPING SPARROW

NB: There was no word today on yesterday's GREAT EGRET of Tree Island east
Richmond.

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Sightings for Sunday May 30th

A RED-NECKED PHALAROPE in alternate plumage was at Reifel Refuge in the west
field.

A singing male AMERICAN REDSTART was at Pitt Meadows about 150 meters along
the nature dike trail at Grant Narrows. A GRAY CATBIRD and two CHIPPING
SPARROWS were also seen. Up to four GRAY CATBIRDS were in the Grant
Road/Neaves Road area.

A LEWIS' WOODPECKER was on McDonald's Beach on Sea Island.

A CHIPPING SPARROW was in a yard in the 153 hundred block of 21st Ave. south
Surrey.

BULLOCK'S ORIOLES, WESTERN TANAGERS, WILLOW FLYCATCHERS, and TURKEY VULTURES
have been reported from several locations.


Sightings for Saturday May 29th

A GREAT EGRET spent the day in the vicinity of Tree Island in the north arm
of the Fraser River in extreme eastern Richmond. The bird moves around and
was seen once during the day up river among the log booms. It was last seen
at 6:00 pm on the south shore of Tree Island on the cut old Westminster
Highway and River Road.

The first GRAY CATBIRD report for the summer came from Pitt Meadows. With
one bird along the nature dike trail at Grant Narrows and another along
Neaves Road. One GREEN HERON and one EASTERN KINGBIRD were also along
Neaves Road.

A mixed shorebird flock in the mouth of the Nickelmekel River included 2 RED
KNOTS, 40 WHIMBREL and a late.

Five RING-NECKED DUCKS were off the Blackie Spit shore and a pair of
BULLOCK'S ORIOLES were near the entrance to the Dunsmiur Allotment Gardens.

Ten TURKEY VULTURES were over the anthropology museum at UBC.

Fourteen CASPIAN TERNS were at Spanish Banks.

One immature male YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was 100 meters east at the foot
of 108th Street South Delta.

Eighty-five BALD EAGLES and one OSPREY were off Crescent Beach at low tide.

CRESTED MHYNA'S can still be found in the vicinity of the airport square
building, 73rd Avenue and Southwest Marine Drive, Vancouver.


Sightings for Friday May 28th

Vancouver's two long staying celebrities the ROSS'S GOOSE and the CASSIN'S
AUKLET were seen again. The ROSS'S GOOSE was at Burnaby Lake with CANADA
GEESE at the foot of the Piper Avenue spit and the CASSIN'S AUKLET was near
the heli-jet pad east of the seabus terminal.

One PARASITIC JAEGER was on the water of the White Rock Pier in the morning.

One HORNED LARK was on the Iona South Jetty and one PARASITIC JAEGER was off
the jetty tip


Sightings for Thursday May 27th

The AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN was relocated at 11:30 this morning between the
Tswwassen and Coal Port Jetties and was still there at 2:00 pm.

A STILT SANDPIPER only a casual in spring, was on the Iona southwest pond.

The CASSIN'S AUKLET was near the Seabus Terminal in the early morning once
again.

The EASTERN KINGBIRD was on the fence, south of the Iona southwest pond for
the second day.

A GREEN HERON was at the east end of Iona Island.

A BULLOCK'S ORIOLE was at Maplewood Flats


Sightings for Wednesday May 26th

An AMERICAN WHITE was seen briefly this morning from the tip of the Iona
south Jetty. The bird circled then flew out over the Georgia Strait.

The seasons first EASTERN KINGBIRD was at Iona in the vicinity of the
southwest pond.

The WESTERN KINGBIRD was on the airport fence again at the south end of
Sea-Iona causeway


Sightings for Tuesday May 25th

The season's first reported WILLOW FLYCATCHER was on the south side of Burns
Bog and the first COMMON NIGHTHAWK of summer (and early at that) was noted
in overflight at Knight Street and Westminster Hwy. in Richmond.

Two WILSON'S PHALAROPES were at Serpentine Fen in the northwest pond.


Sightings for Monday May 24th

A SAGE THRASHER was discovered at 10:00am in Pitt Meadows on Neaves Road.
The bird was seen on the road about 150 meters south of Grant Narrows and
just north of a caution sign beside the road.

A HOUSE WREN (rare in the Fraser Valley) was singing as if on territory in
the Abbottsford area. To look for it take no. Hwy 11 towards the Sumas
Border crossing, turn left onto Vai Rd. (sp?) and right on Watson Rd. The
bird was singing in a small woodlot south of the railway tracks on the right
side of the road. Also in the Abbottsford area a LAZULI BUNTING was on the
south parallel road, that is the road paralleling Hwy 1, 3.1 km east of
Watson road on the south side.

Three CRESTED MHYNAS were at 2nd and Wylie in Vancouver. CRESTED MHYNAS are
also seen daily in the vicinity of the airport square bldg. on Southwest
Marine and 73rd Ave.

A BAIRD'S SANDPIPER was on Iona's north west pond. One hundred sixty
CASPIAN TERNS were in the area.
Two PARASITIC JAEGERS were seen far off shore.

An OSPREY was at Deer Lake Park in Burnaby.


Sightings for Sunday May 23th

The CASSIN'S AUKLET was again seen off the Seabus Terminal of the Burrard
Inlet. This bird has been present for more than two months.

Three RED KNOTS in alternate plumage were on the south side of the Coal Port
Jetty about one third of the way out.

A RED-EYED VIREO and several EVENING GROSBEAKS were in Deer Lake Park.
Evening Grosbeaks are in their northward migration now and are being noted
in many localities.

Two WESTERN KINGBIRDS were in the Columbia Valley south of Chilliwack where
a pair nested last year.



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