Sunday Bird Walk: Legacy Marsh, April 25, 8: 45 am to 11: 40 am.

Weather: Sunny with a little breeze at the start but then warmed up
beautifully to about 15?C.

Observers: Twenty Sunday Birders

Highlights: It was a beautiful day for a bird walk. Townsend's Warblers
were singing high in a Big Leaf Maple Tree and delighted us with our
first glimpses of the year. Purple Finch, Common Yellow-throat, Winter,
Marsh and Bewick's Wrens were singing throughout the morning and playing
hide and seek with us all morning. We got to study them all when we
finally found them in the trees and bushes.

Number of Species: 51

Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Hooded Merganser
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
Merlin
California Quail
Wilson's Snipe
Band-tailed Pigeon
Rufous Hummingbird
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Northern Flicker
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Cassin's Vireo
Hutton's Vireo
Steller's Jay
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Varied Thrush
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Purple Finch
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin


The Sunday Bird Walks are presented by
The Backyard
Wildbird & Nature Store
6404- Metral Drive, Nanaimo
390-3669
1-888-249-4145
thebackyard at shaw.ca
The Next Sunday Bird Walk on May 02 will be going to Buttertubs Marsh.
Meet at the bird store at 8:30 am.
Or at the Bowen Road parking lot entrance to Buttertubs Marsh
at about 8:45 am.

Good Birding
Neil Robins
British Columbia