This is the Vancouver, BC Bird Alert for Monday March 28th, 11:30 pm
update.

Highlights Include:

PALM WARBLER
HERMIT THRUSH

Other birds mentioned include:

Orange-crowned Warbler
American Kestrel
Brant
Sandhill Crane
Surfbird
Rock Sandpiper
Black Turnstone
Western Sandpiper
Dunlin
Sanderling
Horned Puffin
Rufous Hummingbird
Hoary Redpoll
Yellow-rumped Warbler
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Sightings for Tuesday, March 28th

The PALM WARBLER was seen from the Sea Island dike west of Shannon Road from
2:00 to 2:20 pm. The bird is in about 90% breeding plumage.

A HERMIT THRUSH was along Tatlow Trail in Stanley Park. HERMIT THRUSHES
have been noted at a rate of about one per week this month and are likely
wintering birds rather than returning migrants. Returning migrants tend to
be more vocal than those that have wintered here.

Monday, March 27th

Ten standing grey-bellied BRANT were at the Beach Grove Lagoon. Two hundred
swimming BRANT (an unidentifiable race) were in Boundary Bay.


Sunday, March 26th

The PALM WARBLER was seen between 4:45 and 5:00 pm in its usual place in the
brush along the landward side of the Sea Island dike 40-80 m west of the
junction with Shannon Road. Two YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS were also seen
there.

Two singing ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS in Campbell Valley Regional Park,
Langely were the first spring arrivals.

>From Vancouver Island comes word of a possible HORNED PUFFIN seen flying in
Georgia Strait off Columbia Beach and the Parksville Qualicum area. For
further information please call the Victoria Bird Alert at (250) 592-3381.


Saturday, March 25th

The HOARY REDPOLL fist reported on March 20th was seen briefly in the
morning on Sea Island. Still on Sea Island a PALM WARBLER and a
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER were seen at the junction of Ferguson and Shannon Road
opposite fence gate #2. Plumage differences suggest that this may not be
the same PALM WARBLER that has wintered near the north end of Shannon Road.

On Iona Island a single WESTERN SANDPIPER was with DUNLIN and SANDERLINGS at
the tip of the south jetty.

A SURFBIRD and a ROCK SANDPIPER were with BLACK TURNSTONES at lighthouse
marine park in Point Roberts.

A SANDHILL CRANE was in the vicinity of Debolville Slough. Five hundred
BRANT were between the Tsawwassen and Coal Port Jetties. A party of 135
more BRANT off shore at the Beach Grove Lagoon Tsawwassen, contained 13 of
the grey bellied race.

An AMERICAN KESTREL was in Langely along 200th Street north of East Avenue.

RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRDS have been noted in several localities in the past ten
days.



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