This is the Vancouver, BC Bird Alert for Friday October 01st 11:30 pm
edition.

Highlights Include:

SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER
SANDHILL CRANE
LAPLAND LONGSPUR

Other Species Noted:

Pectoral Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Osprey
Common Tern
Red Knot
Semipalmated Plover
Chipping Sparrow
Yellow-rumped Warbler
White-throated Sparrow
American Golden Plover
Parasitic Jeager
Long-billed Curlew
Black Oystercatcher
Violet-green Swallow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Snow Goose
Eurasian Wigeon
Three-toed Woodpecker
Western Kingbird
Turkey Vulture
Black-bellied Plover
Willet
Rough-legged Hawk
Black Turnstone
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Sightings for Friday October 01st

A SHARP-TAILED SANDIPER was seen in the afternoon and evening at Iona Island
in the south east sewage pond with 33 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS. Also in the area
were a late BAIRD'S, LEAST and 5 WESTERN SANDPIPERS.

Six SANDHILL CRANES were seen at afternoon 21st Ave. and 154th St. in south
Surrey. They were heading south and vocalizing all the way.

One LAPLAND LONGSPUR was at Blackie Spit immideatly north of the parking lot
in the weedy area. Also at Blackie Spit were an OSPREY and a LONG-BILLED
CURLEW.

Two COMMON TERNS were seen at Crescent Beach.

At Deer Lake Park in Burnaby, 2 OSPREY were seen fishing.

September 30th

Four RED KNOTS were at the foot of 96th st. Delta on the morning high tide.

Three late SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS were at the foot of 112th st.

A LAPLAND LONGSPUR was seen at the Big Wood Mud Flats in north Vancouver
just past the bridge running along the trail.


September 29th

The LONG-BILLED CURLEW is still at Blackie Spit.

Large numbers of YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS are being seen, 75 were at Maplewood
Flats near the office for the second consecutive day.

Four CHIPPING SPARROWS were seen at Raven Creek Provincial Park on Pitt
Lake.

Three thousand SNOW GEESE were on Westham Island.


September 28th

A fallout of YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS occurred in Maple Ridge today. A flock
of 60 were off 216st. at the end of the dike near the tree farm. Farther on
near Deas rd. were 12 more YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS

A LAPLAND LONGSPUR was at Maplewood Flats on the gravel path southwest of
the bridge

A GREAT HORNED OWL was at Big Wood Mud Flats in north Vancouver at the west
mixed forest

September 27th

Two WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS were among the species banded at the Iona
Banding Station. Two hundred SNOW GEESE were noted in overflight in
Richmond.

Small numbers of TREE AND BARN SWALLOWS were along the Richmond west dike.


September 26th

Unusually large numbers of AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS, 17-20 birds, were on the
south side of 36th ave. between 64th and 22nd st. south Delta

Eight PARASITIC JEAGERS, all light morphed adults were seen between the
Tswwassen and Coal Port Jetties.

The WILLET is still at the base of the Tswwassen jetty on the south side.
Five BLACK OYSTERCATCHERS with 2 BLACK TURNSTONES were also seen.

The LONG-BILLED CURLEW is still at Blackie spit.

At Colony Farms were some late swallows. Twenty-five VIOLET GREEN and 10
TREE SWALLOWS

Three hundred SNOW GEESE were at Reifel Refuge


September 25th

The first SNOW GEESE and EURASIAN WIGEON arrived today with some 40 SNOW
GEESE over Tswwassen.

The EURASIAN WIGEON was on the north shore of Boundary Bay opposite the
mansion west of the foot of 96th st.

A juvenile THREE-TOED WOODPECKER visited a west Vancouver yard in the 2600
block of Lawson Ave.

A late WESTERN KINGBIRD and GREEN HERON were at Colony Farms.

A SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER was at Iona

Five TURKEY VULTURES circled over 206th st and 32nd ave in Aldergrove

Across the border in Blaine Washington, the juvenile AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER
was with a small party of BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS on the mud flats of Semiamoo
Bay off the Marine Park Drive shore.


September 24

The WILLET and 1 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER were at the base of the Tswwassen
ferry jetty.

The first ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK of the fall (3 birds), were seen over south
Delta.

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