Subject: RBA, Vancouver, BC. September 25/00
Date: Sep 25 21:53:04 2000
From: Larry Cowan - lawrencecowan at home.com


This is the Vancouver Bird Alert for Monday, September 25, 9:30pm update.

Species mentioned:

Northern Goshawk
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden Plover
Willet
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Stilt Sandpiper
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Horned Lark
Townsend's Solitaire
Hermit Thrush
Northern Waterthrush
Evening Grosbeak
White-throated Sparrow
Lapland Longspur

The featured bird is Goshawk.

Sightings for Monday, September 25:

On Mount Strachan, at Cypress Provincial Park, a juvenile GOSHAWK was seen
playing tag with a COMMON RAVEN. Also in the area were 1 TOWNSEND'S
SOLITAIRE and 1 HERMIT THRUSH.

Sunday, September 24:
The NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH in Stanley Park was relocated at the junction of
Cathedral and Lee Trails, where it was sitting on some cut logs. Also in
Stanley Park were 7 RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKERS and 1 WHITE-THROATED SPARROW at
Beaver Lake.

The MARBLED GODWIT and the WILLET were at the Tsawwassen Ferry Jetty.
An AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER was in a large flock of BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS at
the west shore terminal on the north side of the Robert's Bank jetty.

Saturday, September 23:
One adult white morph WHITE-THROATED SPARROW was across from the wooden
bridge,
just to the west of Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park.

One STILT SANDPIPER was with a flock of DOWITCHERS in front of the mansion,
west of 96th Street in Delta, and a RUDDY TURNSTONE was at Beach Grove
Lagoon
in Tsawwassen.

Two LAPLAND LONGSPURS and a HORNED LARK were on the Iona south jetty.

Friday, September 22
A WHITE-THROATED SPARROW was seen at Burnaby Mountain Park, and another
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW of the tan race was at Reifel on the east dyke trail.
Also at Reifel was an EVENING GROSBEAK.

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

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