Sunday Bird Walks Legacy Marsh, Upper Lantzville, and July 11, 2004,
8:40 am to 12 noon.

Weather: Mostly cloudy, and calm winds, about 16? C.

Observers: Twenty-three Sunday birders including two visitors from
Houston Texas.

Highlights: We had great looks at many Cedar Waxwings, Black-headed
Grosbeaks, Common Yellowthroats, Olive-sided, and Willow Flycatchers.
The always-elusive Swainsons Thrush popped up several times to give us
long looks at him.

Number of Species: 48
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Wood Duck
Mallard
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Merlin
California Quail
Virginia Rail
Glaucous-winged Gull
Band-tailed Pigeon
Black Swift
Vaux's Swift
Rufous Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Hutton's Vireo
Common Raven
Violet-green Swallow
Barn Swallow
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Swainson's Thrush
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
Orange-crowned Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Western Tanager
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Black-headed Grosbeak
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Purple Finch
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch

The Sunday bird walks are presented by the
Backyard Wildbird & Nature Store
390-3669
Tool free
1-888-249-4145
#6-6404 Metral Drive
Nanaimo.
Good birding!
Neil Robins
Nanaimo
british Columbia