This is the Vancouver, BC Bird Alert for Tuesday September 28th 10:15 pm
edition.

Highlights Include:
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER
LAPLAND LONGSPUR

Other Species Noted:

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
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Turkey Vulture
Black-bellied Plover
Willet
Rough-legged Hawk
Barred Owl
Franklin's Gull
Common Tern
Black Turnstone
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Sightings for Tuesday 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


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.


September 23

A BARRED OWL was at the Base Powl Trailhead in Deep Cove.


September 22

No Sightings Mentioned


September 21st

An immature FRANKLIN'S GULL was on the south side of the Tswwassen ferry
jetty in the late afternoon Many BONEPARTE'S GULLS and COMMON TERNS were
also seen.

Eleven AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS one adult and ten juveniles were in a grassy
field on the south side of 36th ave. about mid way between 64th and 22nd st.
south Delta.

A GREEN HERON was at Serpentine fen.


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