Sunday bird walk to the Englishman River Estuary from
Shelly Road side on July 04,04, 9:00 am to 12:10 pm. The tides were low
and it was warm, but not too hot.
There were eighteen Sunday birders including two visitors from Australia
and we saw and heard sixty-four species. We all had great looks at the
Greater Yellowlegs and a flock of about twenty Lesser and Western
Sandpipers flew right over us. We watched two young Rufous Hummingbirds
on a branch as they waited for mom to feed them.

Common Loon
Pelagic Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Common Merganser
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Cooper's Hawk
California Quail
Killdeer
Black Oystercatcher
Greater Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
California Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Caspian Tern
Band-tailed Pigeon
Great Horned Owl
Rufous Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Willow Flycatcher
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Hutton's Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Barn Swallow
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Swainson's Thrush
American Robin
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Spotted Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Black-headed Grosbeak
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Purple Finch
House Finch
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

The Sunday bird walks are presented by the
Backyard Wildbird & Nature Store
250- 390-3669
Toll Free
1-888-249-4145
#6-6404 Metral Drive
Nanimo, BC.
Good birding!
Neil Robins
Nanaimo
British Columbia