Subject: RBA Vancouver, BC -- August 02/02
Date: Aug 4 13:39:28 2002
From: Larry Cowan - lawrencecowan at shaw.ca


This is the Vancouver Bird Alert for Friday August 2nd, evening
update sponsored in part by the Wild Birds Unlimited Stores in Vancouver
and
North Vancouver.

The feature bird is WANDERING TATTLER

Sightings for Friday, August 2nd

The 2 WANDERING TATTLERS were again at the tip of the Iona South
Jetty. Look for them on the rocks 150m before the large concrete building
at the end on
the north side. In the Inner Ponds there were 700 WESTERN SANDPIPERS, 250
LEAST
SANDPIPERS, 10 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, 15 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS & 15 LESSER
YELOWLEGS.

At the base of the Roberts Bank Coal Port Jetty were 10 RED KNOTS and
40 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES.

Thursday, August 1st

At the tip of the Iona South Jetty today 2 adult breeding plumaged
WANDERING TATTLERS spent the day sitting on the rocks at the end. The Inner
Ponds at Iona had 1 juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, 4 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, 150
juvenile
WESTERN SANDPIPERS, 22 juvenile SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, 65 juvenile LEAST
SANDPIPERS and 1 adult PEREGRINE FALCON.

Wednesday, July 31

The Iona Island Sewage Ponds had 2 juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS,
5 adult LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS, 1 adult GREATER YELLOWLEGS,
2 juvenile LESSER YELLOWLEGS and many juvenile peeps.

Tuesday, July 30

At Colony Farm a family of LAZULI BUNTINGS were along Colony Farm
Road behind the Old Aboandoned houses.

Monday, July 29

At the Reifel Refuge the following species were reported: upto 5 RED-
NECKED PHALAROPES, 2 WILSON'S PHALAROPES, 300 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS, 70
GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 4 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, 4 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS and
many WESTERN SANDPIPERS.

Along the Tsawwassen Ferry Jetty were 3 BLACK OYSTERCATCHERS.

In Vancouver at 1st and Wylie there were still 2 CRESTED MYNAS these
are possibly the only remaining birds left in our area.

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

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