This is the Vancouver Bird Alert for Sunday, December 29th, evening
update, sponsored in part by the Wild Birds Unlimited Stores in
Vancouver and North Vancouver.

The feature birds are: RARE BIRD ALERT for YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER
and out of town HOODED WARBLER.

Species noted:

Yellow-billed Loon
Eared Grebe
American Kestrel
American Avocet
Willet
Ruddy Turnstone
YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER
HOODED WARBLER (Duncan, Vancouver Island)
Yellow-headed Blackbird

Sightings for Sunday, December 29th

RARE BIRD ALERT! An immature YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER was found at 38A Ave
and 155th Street in White Rock. I ask the observer to call the alert back
with more details on this very rare sighting. Thank-you!

An AMERICAN AVOCET was observed at Elgin Heritage Park 1km down from the
Yacht Club on the river bank.

Out of town the male HOODED WARBLER was again seen in Duncan at the corner
of Glenora Road and Miller Road.

At the base of the Tsawwassen Ferry Jetty an EARED GREBE was observed not
far from shore. Also here was the WILLET. An AMERICAN KESTREL was seen
along Highway 17 not far from the Tsawwassen turn off and another AMERICAN
KESTREL was not far away at 41B Street and Delta Port Way.

Saturday, December 28th

Out of town, on the Duncan Christmas Bird Count a male HOODED WARBLER was
found!
The bird was at the corner of Miller Road and Glenora Road on the south side
of Duncan.

A YELLOW-BILLED LOON was reported at the base of the Tsawwassen Ferry Jetty
on the south side. Also here along the shoreline was the WILLET and the
RUDDY TURNSTONE.

A male YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was in a flock of blackbirds along 68th
Street about a kilometer south of River Road in Delta.

If you have a query about Vancouver Birds or birding, please call:
Larry at 604 942-0931 or John at 604 737-1611.

Thank you for calling the Vancouver Bird Alert & Good Birding!

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For further information on birding in the Vancouver area log onto the
Vancouver Natural History Society's web site at www.naturalhistory.bc.ca

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