The Nanaimo Bird Alert
provided by
The Backyard Wildbird and Nature Store
To report your sightings phone
The Bird Alert at: 390-3029 or
The Store at: 390-3669
e-mail: thebackyard at shaw.ca

Please remember to leave your name, phone
number along with the date and location of your sighting.

Wednesday July 07, 2004
Three BLACK SWIFTS and a RED-TAILED HAWK were spotted flying above Corfield Road in Parksville.

Sunday July 04:
Eighteen Sunday birders went to the Englishman River Estuary in Parksville and found the following sixty-four species:
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

Saturday July 03:
An ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD has been a winter resident along Whitney Road in Nanaimo for seven years.
Four RED-EYED VIREO'S were seen at the end of Renz Road in the woods at Parksville.

Thursday July 01:
A albino NORTHWESTERN CROW was sighted at Rathtrevor Provincial Park.

Wednesday June 30:
A GREAT HORNED OWL was spotted along the trail running beside the road leading to Sunset Beach at Neck Point Park in Nanaimo.

Tuesday June 29,
CHIPPING SPARROWS with young and two MUTE SWANS were seen in the Nanoose
Bay area.

Monday June28:
One NORTHERN PYGMY-OWL and a WESTERN TANAGER were spotted at the Beaver
Ponds in Morrell Sanctuary, Nanaimo.
A BARRED OWL was being mobbed by four AMERICAN ROBINS on the Fire Lane
Outlook at Morrell Sanctuary in Nanaimo.

Saturday June 26:
A White CANADA GOOSE was seen at Craig Bay in Parksville.
A female PINE GROSBEAK was seen coming to feeders along Pylades Drive in
Yellow Point in Cedar.

Friday June 25:
A GRAY JAY was seen in the area of lot 89 at Rivers Edge sub-division off
Kaye Road, behind the weigh scale in Parksville.
A BARRED OWL was seen being mobbed by AMERICAN ROBINS on the fire road in
Morrell Sanctuary in Nanaimo.

Thursday June 24:
Two adults and five young VIRGINA RAIL were seen at Buttertubs Marsh in
Nanaimo.


For further information on these sightings or for help in identifying a
bird please call:

The Backyard Wildbird and Nature Store
at (250) 390-3669
Toll Free at 1-888-249-4145
e-mail: thebackyard at shaw.ca


This Sunday morning bird walk, July 11, will be going to Legacy Marsh in upper Lantzville.
Meet at the store at 8:30 am or at the power line right of way on Normarel Drive at Legacy Marsh at about 8:45 am.

Good Birding!
Neil Robins
Nanaimo
British Columbia


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