This is the Vancouver, BC Bird Alert for Tuesday August 31st, 9:15pm
update.

Species Noted:

SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER
STILT SANDPIPER
HORNED LARK
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpipers
Townsend's Warbler
Black-throated Grey Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Western Wood Peewee
Yellow Warbler
Lincoln's Sparrow
Osprey
Caspian Tern
Great Horned Owl
Fork-tailed Storm Petrel
Parasitic Jeager
Green Heron
Franklin's Gull
American Golden Plover
American White Pelican
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Red Knot
Surfbird
Willet
Ruddy Turnstone
Black Turnstone
Semi-palmated Plover
Semi-palmated Sandpiper
Rhinoceros Auklet
Purple Martin
Heermann's Gull
Red-necked Phalarope
Whimbrel
Black Oystercatcher
Peregrine Falcon
Common Tern

NB**: A reminder that the September Birder's Night will fall prior to the
Labour Day weekend this year and will be held at 7:30 pm on Thursday
September 2, 1999 at Yorktown School, 4176 Alexandra Street near the south
west corner of Granville Street and west King Edward. It is important to
note that the October and November meetings will take place at a different
venue and this will be announced at a later date.
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Sightings for Tuesday August 31st

Several observers have reported a juvenile SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER, the first
of the fall migration at Beach Grove Lagoon, Tsawwassen.

>From Iona, a STILT SANDPIPER was seen at the south west pond. Five HORNED
LARKS were at the first shelter at the south jetty, and also reported from
the south jetty were 2 PARASITIC JEAGERS. Six PECTORAL SANDPIPERS and 6
BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS were observed near the mansion at the foot of 96th st
though a PEREGRINE FALCON kept shorebird numbers generally low.

Twenty two SEMI-PALMATED PLOVERS could still be found at Beach Grove. Two
PURPLE MARTINS and a GREEN HERON could be found at Blackie Spit and a check
at Serpentine Fen produced 8 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS.


August 30th

The cool wet weather resulted in a significant fallout of small passerines
throughout the region and high numbers of warblers tallied at Burnaby
Mountain Park included 25 TOWNSEND'S, 20 WILSON'S, 20 BLACK-THROATED GRAYS,
and 10 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS. Also present were 2 OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHERS
and a WESTERN WOOD PEEWEE.

The banding station on Iona Island also noted a strong movement of warblers
including YELLOW, WILSON'S and ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS as well as one of the
fall's first LINCOLN'S SPARROWS.

In other sightings 4 PURPLE MARTINS and an OSPREY were seen in Deer Lake and
up to 4 PARASITIC JEAGERS were observed with COMMON TERNS and CASPIAN TERNS
were observed at Point Roberts.

A GREAT HORNED OWL was heard calling from trees in the 2500 block of 149th
st in south Surrey.


August 29th

A FORK-TAILED STORM PETREL was seen off the tip of Iona's south jetty during
the height of the storm shortly after day break. The bird was seen for just
a few minutes before flying off in the direction of Point Roberts.

Other birds in the area at the same time were 4 PARASITIC JEAGERS, a
FRANKLIN'S GULL, 4 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES and a RED KNOT which was seen on
the road way.

At the Tswwassen ferry terminal were the following: 30 BLACK TURNSTONES, a
RUDDY TURNSTONE and a WILLET was at the base of the Tswwassen jetty.

A RED KNOT and an AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER were near the mansion at the foot
of 96th st.

The AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN is still at Robert's Bank.


August 28th

A bird fitting the description of an ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER was discovered
at noon today in Tswwassen fly catching from bushes at Boundary Bay
Regional Park. The birds was seen from a dike in a grassy area about two
thirds of the distance of Beach Grove Lagoon and the park's boardwalk area.

In other sightings a light morph PARASITIC JEAGER and 2 BLACK TURNSTONES
were seen from the tip of Iona's south jetty and a RED KNOT was at the base
of the jetty.

Twelve PURPLE MARTINS were reported from Maplewood Flats north Vancouver and
a and a steady stream of warblers, flycatchers and other small passerines
have been noted in the area all week.

Twenty-five SEMI-PALMATED PLOVERS and a SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER were at
Beach Grove Lagoon.


August 27th

There was a late report from the tip of the south jetty at Iona of a
SURFBIRD and 2 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES and a BLACK TURNSTONE, all juvenile
birds.

The WILLET was seen again near the base of the Tswwassen jetty and 6 BLACK
OYSTERCATCHERS were counted at the far end of the jetty adjacent to the
ferry terminal.

An immature PEREGRINE FALCON was reported from the Boundary Bay dike at 22nd
St.


August 26th

A PEREGRINE FALCON was observed in the evening from the second narrows
bridge.


August 25th

Six HEERMANN'S GULLS at the sand head light station were viewed from the mid
island to the Tswwassen ferry


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