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 when reporting a sighting to leave your name, phone
number along with the date and location of your sighting.

Tuesday September 28, 2004,
A SURFBIRD and 25 BLACK TURNSTONES were seen at Departure Bay in Nanaimo.

Monday September 27:
ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRDS are coming to feeders to the 3900 block of Hammond Bay Road in Nanaimo.

Sunday September 26:
The Sunday bird walk went to Englishman River Estuary, Shelly Road Side. Twenty-two Sunday birders found the following 67 Species:
Red-throated Loon
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Red-necked Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Greater Scaup
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Cooper's Hawk
California Quail
Killdeer
Black Turnstone
Bonaparte's Gull
Mew Gull
California Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Hutton's Vireo
Steller's Jay
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Varied Thrush
European Starling
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Purple Finch
House Finch
American Goldfinch

Friday September 24:
A SWAINSONS THRUSH and five BROWN CREEPERS were seen at Buttertubs Marsh in Nanaimo.
Two grey and white coloured NORTHWEST CROWS were seen along Peacock Street and Stanford Avenue in Parksville.
A WESTERN MEADOWLARK was seen at Nanoose Bay.

Thursday September 23:
Eleven SANDERLINGS were seen at Columbia Beach near French Creek.

Tuesday September 21:
47 LONG-BILLED DOWICHERS, two PECTORAL SANDPIPERS and four LINCOLN SPARROWS were seen at the Nanaimo River Estuary in south 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 Bird walk on October 03 will be going to the Neck Point Park in Nanaimo.
Meet at the store at 8:30 am or at the parking lot at Neck Point Park at about 8:45 am.


Good Birding!
Neil Robins
Nanaimo
British Columbia