Sunday Bird Walk: Neck Point Park, Nanaimo. September 14/03, 8:50 a.m.
to 11:25 a.m.

Weather: Cloudy at the beginning of the walk and then sunny at about 18?
C. It was very windy with white caps on the water. High tide was at
10:00 a.m.

Observers: Seventeen Sunday birders.

Highlights: We had great close range looks, for about ten minutes, at an
American Pipit. The resident Spotted Sandpiper was at his usual spot on
Sunset Beach. He was hunkered down against the wind near the shoreline.

Number of Species: 25

Common Loon
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Turkey Vulture (1)
Black Scoter
Black Oystercatcher
Spotted Sandpiper
Black Turnstone
Mew Gull
California Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Belted Kingfisher
Hutton's Vireo
Common Raven
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Orange-crowned Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Pine Siskin

Join us for
The Backyard Wildbird & Nature Store?s
Annual Raptor Migration Tour
to Victoria & area
on September 25
Contact the store for details
390-3669
e-mail: thebackyard at shaw.ca

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The September 21/03, Sunday bird walk will be going to the Hemer
Provincial Park.

Meet at the store at 8:30 a.m. or at the parking lot at Hemer Provincial
Park at the end of Hemer Road in Cedar at about 9:00 a.m.
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Good birding!
Neil Robins
nmrobins at telus.net
Nanaimo
British Columbia
Canada