This is the Vancouver Bird Alert for Sunday, July 8, evening update.

The featured bird is Great Egret

Sightings for Sunday, July 8:
The Great Egret was again seen in the Tsawwassen area between the ferry
jetty and the coal port jetty.

Along the dyke trail at Grant Narrows in the Pitt Meadows area there were a
Least Flycatcher and a Grey Catbird.

Iona had 500 Western Sandpipers, along with a few Least and the first
juvenile Semipalmated Sanpipers, as well as 5 Long-billed Dowitchers and a
Greater Yellowlegs.

Saturday, July 7:
At Colony farm a Green Heron was on the Coquitlam side near the parking
lot, and a Lazuli Bunting was in trees at the south end of the park.

The southwest corner of the Robert's Bank coal port jetty had an Osprey and
a Brant, and on the compensation lagoon along the Tsawwassen ferry jetty
there were 26 Caspian Terns, 6 Black Oystercatchers and a Brant.

Friday, July 6:
The Great Egret was seen on English Bluff in Tsawwassn.

A Vaux's Swift was seen near the Sky Train bridge close to the Patulo
Bridge and may be nesting.

Thursday, July 5:
A singing male Indigo Bunting was seen in downtown Seeschelt at the 5700
block of Neptune Street. The bird was working under the powerline corridor.

Locally the southbound migration is heating up at Iona with up to 1500
Western Sandpipers, 20 to 30 Semi-palmated Sandpipers and 50 to 75 Least
Sandpipers. Also at Iona was a Greater Yellowlegs and a male American
Kestrel was along Grower Road.

At the Compensation Lagoon along the north side of the Tsawwassen Ferry
Jetty were 77 Caspian Terns, 5 Black Oystercatchers and a Brant. The Willet,
a
regular for many years is back again and was along the southside of the
jetty.

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