This is the Vancouver Bird Alert for Monday, July 9, evening update.

The featured bird is an out of town Long-tailed Jaeger.

Sightings for Monday, July 9:
A sub-adult Long-tailed Jaeger was seen at Clover Point in Victoria about
200
to 300 meters offshore. The bird was on the water, picking at things.

A Common Nighthawk was at 8th Street and 3rd Avenue in New Westminster.

In a late report for Sunday 2 Grey-crowned Rosy Finches were seen on the 2nd
Pump Peek on Mount Seymour.

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
female American Redstart, a Least Flycatcher, 2 Grey Catbirds and juvenile
Red-breasted Sapsucker. Another Grey Catbird was at the first big bend on
the
road to Grant Narrows. Katsie Marsh had 1 Trumpeter Swan and 4 Mute Swans.

A Common Nighthawk was at 70th and Hebbard in Vancouver. Another 4 Common
Nighthawks were at Pendar Harbour.

Iona had 2000 Western Sandpipers, 50 Semipalmated Sandpipers, including 1
juvenile, and 20 Least Sandpipers, as well as 5 Long-billed Dowitchers and
a
Greater and Lesser 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.

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