Monday, November 12, evening update. Vancouver Bird Alert

The featured bird is Cattle Egret.

Speceis noted:

Cattle Egret [Delta]
AMERICAN BLACK DUCK [Tsawwassen Jetty]
American Wigeon [Point Roberts]
Cinnamon Teal [Reifel]
Tufted Duck [Iona RP]
Ring-necked Duck [Colony Farm]
Rough-legged Hawk [BB 104TH]
Merlin [Colony Farm]
American Kestrel [Delta]
Spotted Sandpiper [Port Moody]
Ruddy Turnstone [Maplewood CA]
Black Turnstone [Maplewood CA]
Western Gull [White Rock]
Heermann's Gull [White Rock]
Long-eared Owl [Terra Nova]
Short-eared Owl [Sea Island]
Northern Pygmy-Owl [Cypress PP]
Northern Shrike [Westham Island]
Hutton's Vireo [Point Roberts]
American Dipper [Port Moody, Capilano Fish Hatchery]
Hermit Thrush [Stanley Park]
Orange-crowned Warbler [Beach Grove]
Townsend's Warbler [Deep Cove]
Lapland Longspur [Delta]

Sightings for Monday, November 12:

The Cattle Egret was present at Highway 10 and 96th Street in Delta. Also in
the area, a Rough-legged Hawk was at the foot of 104th Street.

3 Short-eared Owls were at Sea Island along the airport fence on the east
side of the north runway.

2 Hutton's Vireos were at Point Roberts.

An American Dipper was seen at Noons Creek in Port Moody and on

Sunday a Spotted Sandpiper was seen flying west down the north side of Port
Moody Inlet.

Also in late reports for Sunday, 2 Ancient Murrelets were seen off Point
Roberts and 2 Ring-necked Duck and a Merlin were at Colony Far m.

Sunday, November 11:

The Cattle Egret was again present at Highway 10 and 96th Street in Delta.
125 Lapland Longspurs were seen in the corn stubble field about 400 meters
west of 104th Street.

A Northern Pygmy Owl was seen on the road up to Cypress and another was seen
at the upper parking lot.

2 Dippers were at the Capilano fish hatchery.

1 Townsend's Warbler was at Epps Avenue in North Vancouver.

An American Kestrel was on Delta Port Way at 41B Street, and Westham Island
Road on Westham Island had an immature Northern Shrike.

Saturday, November 10:

A female Tufted Duck was seen on the outer pond of Iona Island.

A Ruddy Turnstone was with Black Turnstones on the western side of Maplewood
Mud Flats at Otter Point.

Also in North Vancouver 4 Townsend's Warbler's were along Epps Avenue in the
Deep Cove area.

A Heermann's Gull and a Western Gull were at the breakwater at White Rock
Pier.

Beach Grove had 1 and possibly 2 Common Redpolls and an Orange-crowned
Warbler.

The Black Duck continued to be seen at the compensation lagoon at the
Tsawwassen Ferry Jetty.

The west field of Reifel had a male Cinnamon Teal.

The 2 Long-eared Owls were still on the Richmond West Dyke, south of the
Westminster Highway.

A Hermit Thrush was at Beaver Creek in Stanley Park.

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John Kalman

Larry Cowan
Port Coquitlam, BC
lawrencecowan at shaw.ca