Subject: RBA, Vancouver BC. September 19/00
Date: Sep 19 23:10:40 2000
From: Larry Cowan - lawrencecowan at home.com


This is the Vancouver Bird Alert for Tuesday, September 19, 9:30pm update.

Species mentioned:

AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN - Steveson
BROWN PELICAN - Iona Jetty
Great Egret - Brydon Lagoon, Langley
Green Heron
Greater White-fronted Goose - Brydon Lagoon, Langley
ROSS'S GOOSE - Sea Island
Osprey - 112th, Boundary Bay
Merlin
Marbled Godwit - Tsawwassen Jetty
Heermann's Gull - Coquitlam
SABINE'S GULL - Iona Jetty
Lewis' Woodpecker - Heritage Mtn., Burnaby
Horned Lark - Iona Jetty
Cassin's Vireo - Burnaby Mtn.
Townsend's Warbler - Burnaby Mtn.

The featured birds are Ross's Goose and Great Egret.

Sightings for Tuesday, September 19:

A ROSS'S GOOSE was seen with Canada Geese at the horse farm on Sea Island.
This may be the same bird that was seen there in the spring.

The GREAT EGRET was again seen at Brydon Lagoon, which is at 198th Street
and
57A Avenue in Langley. Also in the area was a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE.

Two Ospreys were seen at the foot of 112th in Delta.

There was a fallout of passerines on Burnaby Mountain Park, a new birding
hotspot. Some of the birds seen included CASSIN'S VIREO and TOWNSEND'S
WARBLERS.

The south jetty at Iona had 2 HORNED LARKS, and the Tsawwassen Jetty still
had 2 MARBLED GODWITS.

In late reports for Saturday: 2 LEWIS'S WOODPECKERS were on Heritage
Mountain
in Burnaby, which is at the corner of Parkside Drive and Ravine Drive.

One AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN was on the rockwall of Steveston on the Fraser
River.

Monday, September 18

A BROWN PELICAN was seen from the tip of the south jetty at Iona Island and
the GREAT EGRET was at Brydon Lagoon.

The 2 immature GREEN HERONS were at Ambleside Park, and a HEERMAN'S GULL was
in the Pinetree Shopping Village parking lot in Coquitlam.

Sunday, September 17:

A juvenile SABINE'S GULL was seen north of the tip of the south jetty at
Iona Island.

A MERLIN was seen chasing starlings at 148th and 106th in Surrey.

Thank you for calling the Vancouver Bird Alert and good birding.

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