This is the Vancouver Natural History Society's Bird Alert for
Monday, July 14, sponsored in part by Wild Birds Unlimited, with
stores in Vancouver and North Vancouver

Sightings for Monday, July 14:
One Black Swift and an immature Merlin were at 8th Street and 3rd Ave.
in New Westminster.

Sunday, July 13:
A Barred Owl with fledged young was in Riverview Forest in Coquitlam.

One Common Nighthawk was over 3rd Ave and 8th Street in New Westminster.

Good numbers of shorebirds including Semipalmated Sandpipers and
Dowitchers were seen at the base of the Coalport Jetty and at 112th
Street in Delta.

Saturday, July 12:
Two Marbled Godwits and 3 Whimbrel were at the compensation lagoon on
the Tsawwassen jetty.

Two or 3 thousand peeps were at Iona Island, with almost equal numbers
of Least and Western Sandpipers, 2 or 3 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 9
Long-billed and 2 Short-billed Dowitchers, 5 Lesser Yellowlegs and
several Bonaparte's Gulls.

Friday, July 11:
At the mansion off 96th Street in Delta there were 2 Baird's
Sandpipers and 40 Semipalmated Sandpipers.

Blackie Spit had 6 Purple Martins and 2 Ospreys.

Wednesday, July 9:
A survey of Colony Farm produced 4 male and 2 female Lazuli Buntings
and 3 Bullock's Orioles.

A Horned Puffin was seen at Tofino on the West Coast of Vancouver
Island on Tuesday, July 8.

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Larry Cowan
Port Coquitlam, BC
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