This is the Vancouver Natural History Society?s Bird Alert for
Thursday, May 15th, sponsored in part by Wild Birds Unlimited, with
stores in Vancouver and North Vancouver.

RARE BIRD ALERT for RED-NECKED STINT.

Other feature birds include STILT SANDPIPER, DUSKY FLYCATCHER, WILSON?
S PHALAROPE, BANK SWALLOW, and RED KNOT.


Sightings for Thursday, May 15

An adult, breeding-plumage RED-NECKED STINT was seen among DUNLINS and
WESTERN and LEAST SANDPIPERS in front of ?the mansion? near the foot
of 96th Street on Boundary Bay in Delta. It was present for about 5
minutes as the tide came in, but then flew east toward 112th Street.
Other highlights at this locality were 5 WHIMBRELS and 5 RED KNOTS in
breeding plumage among a flock of BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS.

An intensive search for the HERMIT WARBLER reported yesterday at
Burnaby Mountain Park, Burnaby, produced no relocations. However, an
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was seen there today among a large number of
migrants.

At the Iona Island sewage ponds, Richmond, an adult STILT SANDPIPER in
breeding plumage was reported, as were a female WILSON?S PHALAROPE and
a BANK SWALLOW.

At Campbell Valley Regional Park, Langley, a DUSKY FLYCATCHER at the
?Listening Bridge? was the highlight among many migrants. Also noted
here were a WESTERN WOOD-PEWEE, 6 BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAKS, 7 SWAINSON?S
THRUSHES, and 6 species of warblers including 10 YELLOW WARBLERS.

Likewise, at the wooded area north of the Boundary Bay Airport in
Delta, migrants seen included 12 WESTERN TANAGERS, 3 YELLOW WARBLERS,
a SWAINSON?S THRUSH, and a WESTERN WOOD-PEWEE.


Sightings for Wednesday, May 14

A male HERMIT WARBLER was found in the morning in Burnaby Mountain
Park, Burnaby, below the Horizons Restaurant on the North Side Trail.
Also seen on Burnaby Mountain were a TOWNSEND?S SOLITAIRE, a CASSIN?S
VIREO, a WARBLING VIREO, a HUTTON?S VIREO, and several species of
warblers.

In a late report, a flock of 99 WHIMBRELS was seen in a field near the
intersection of 8th Avenue and 176th Street (Highway 15) in the
Hazelmere Valley of Surrey.

At Blackie Spit Park in Surrey, 16 WHIMBRELS and one LONG-BILLED
CURLEW were seen.

At the Iona Island sewage ponds, Richmond, the following birds were
seen: a female WILSON?S PHALAROPE, 6 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, one
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, and 12 WESTERN SANDPIPERS.

Ten WESTERN WOOD-PEWEES were seen along the Grant Narrows dike trail
at Grant Narrows Regional Park, Pitt Meadows.


Sightings for Tuesday, May 13

At ?the mansion? near the foot of 96th Street on Boundary Bay, Delta,
were 5 RED KNOTS with a few hundred other shorebirds.

Five SANDHILL CRANES flew over the Vancouver International Airport on
Sea Island, Richmond, before heading eastward.

A SOLITARY SANDPIPER was seen in a flooded field at Glen Valley, near
Fort Langley. Nearby, two more SANDHILL CRANES were reported near the
intersection of 272nd Street and 80th Avenue in Langley.

At Campbell Valley Regional Park in Langley, sightings included a
CASSIN?S VIREO, 3 WARBLING VIREOS, a WESTERN TANAGER, 20 PACIFIC-SLOPE
FLYCATCHERS, 12 SWAINSON?S THRUSHES, and two BARRED OWLS.


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