This is the Vancouver, BC Bird Alert for Saturday October 02nd 11:30 pm
edition.

Highlights Include:

SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER
AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER
PACIFIC GOLDEN PLOVER
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW
LAPLAND LONGSPUR

Other Species Noted:

Semipalmated Plovers
Western Meadowlark
Long-eared Owl
Western Tanager
Red Crossbill
Townsend's Warbler
Sandhill Crane
Pectoral Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Osprey
Common Tern
Red Knot
Chipping Sparrow
Yellow-rumped Warbler
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 Turnstone
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Sightings for Saturday October 02nd

One SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER was seen at the base of the Coal Port Jetty along
with 6 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS.

Two AMERICAN and 1 PACIFIC GOLDEN PLOVER were with BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS
half way up the jetty on the north side.

WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS were seen on the Sasamot trail at Pacific Spirit
Park.

Two LAPLAND LONGSPURS were at Blackie Spit along with 1 WESTERN MEADOWLARK,
a LONG-EARED OWL and an OSPREY.

Highlights of the monthly bird survey at Maplewood Flats Sanctuary in north
Vancouver included: 147 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, one late WESTERN TANAGER, 4
TURKEY VULTURES and 25 RED CROSSBILLS. Most of these birds were easily seen
at the Sidalom (sp?) shoreline. Two OSPREYS were also in the area.

A late TOWNSEND'S WARBLER was at Jericho Park in trees just south of the
west pond.


October 01st

A SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER 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 in the afternoon at 21st Ave. and 154th St.
in south
Surrey. They were heading south and vocalising all the way.

One LAPLAND LONGSPUR was at Blackie Spit immediately 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.

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