Sunday Bird Walk: Englishman River Estuary, Shelly Road side, in
Parksville, August 17/03, 9:00 a.m. to Noon.

Weather: Sunny and warm about 22? C. with calm winds. The 12.5 foot
high tide was at 9:00 a.m.

Observers: Twenty-one Sunday birders.

Highlights: There were Warbling and Hutton?s Vireos, Ruby-crowned
Kinglets, Red-breasted Nuthatches, a Brown Creeper and a large number of
unidentified little brown birds bolting about high up in the tall trees
in the forest A flock of about twenty Northern Pintail Ducks flew over
us as we left the forested area. Thirty Black-bellied Plovers were
spotted roosting on the tide line with Western and Least Sandpipers
behind them on a sandspit at the Estuary. Two Greater Yellowlegs flew by
and called as they rose high up in the sky. We had a great look at a
Pacific-sloped Flycatcher in the parking lot just as we were leaving.

Number of Species: 49
Common Loon
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Common Merganser
Bald Eagle
Merlin
Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Mew Gull
California Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Band-tailed Pigeon
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Willow Flycatcher
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Hutton's Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Northwestern Crow
Barn Swallow
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Swainson's Thrush
American Robin
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Black-headed Grosbeak
Brewer's Blackbird
Purple Finch
House Finch
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
The Backyard Wildbird and Nature Store
390-3669
e-mail: thebackyard at shaw.ca

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The Sunday bird walk on August 24 will be going to Buttertubs Marsh in
Nanaimo.

Meet at the store at 8:30 a.m. or at Buttertubs Marsh (Bowen Road
parking lot entrance)
at about 8:45 a.m.
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Good birding!
Neil Robins.
nmrobins at telus.net
Nanaimo,
British Columbia,
Canada.

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