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.

Tuesday July 13, 2004:
Two MERLINS were spotted at Pipers Lagoon in Nanaimo.
One RED-NECK GREBE was seen at the Little Qualicum River Estuary north of Qualicum Beach.

Monday July 12:
Three COMMON NIGHTHAWKS and five BLACK SWIFTS were seen above the 2500 block of Glenayr Drive in Nanaimo.

Sunday July 11:
A SORA with two young was sighted at Hamilton Marsh in Qualicum Beach.
GREATER YELLOWLEGS, BLACK TURNSTONES, LEAST SANDPIPERS, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, BLACK OYSTERCATCHERS and five KILLDEER were seen on the ponds at Columbia Beach near the Pebble Beach Townhouses in French Creek.

Twenty-three Sunday birders went to Legacy Marsh in upper Lantzville and found the following forty-eight species.
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

Saturday July 10:
A female LUZULI BUNTING has been coming to feeders in Port Hardy.

Thursday July 08:
A WESTERN TANAGER was sighted in a yard along Brody's Place in north Nanaimo.

Wednesday July 07:
Two PEREGRINE FALCONS were seen at the Nanaimo River Estuary in south Nanaimo.

Tuesday July 06:
Seven CEDAR WAXWINGS, one BARRED OWL, a WESTERN TANAGER, several MARSH WRENS and a DOWNEY WOODPECKER were seen at Hemer Provincial Park in Cedar.

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 18, will be going to Jingle Pot Marsh in Nanaimo,
meet at the Bird Store at 8:30 am or at the Miners Cabin Parking lot at Jingle Pot Road and Third Street
at about 8:45 a.m.

Good Birding!
Neil Robins
Nanaimo
British Columbia

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