This is the Vancouver Natural History Society's Rare
Bird Alert for Saturday, May 14, sponsored in part by the Wild
Birds Unlimited stores in Vancouver and North Vancouver. The RBA
phone number is (604) 737-3074.

The featured bird is WESTERN KINGBIRD.


Sightings for Saturday, May 14:

A WESTERN KINGBIRD was seen along Ferguson Road on Sea Island,
Richmond, on a fence post.

There were 25 WHIMBREL and 1 MARBLED GODWIT at Blackie Spit in
Surrey.

There was a fallout of warblers in the Vancouver area, especially of
WILSON'S WARBLERS.


Friday, May 13:

60 RHINOCEROS AUKLETS were at Lighthouse Marine Park in Point
Roberts, Washington, along with 12 COMMON MURRES, 10 BRANT, 30
SANDERLINGS and 500 PACIFIC LOONS.


Thursday, May 12:

Migrants are still on the move with 3 BULLOCK'S ORIOLES and 3 WESTERN
TANAGERS along Grant Narrows in Pitt Meadows.


Wednesday, May 11:

A LARK SPARROW was seen at Colony Farm in Coquitlam, 800
metres from the entrance. After crossing the railway tracks on Colony
Farm Road, take the dyke on the left to where two sides of the dyke
are connected by some gates with green and dark brown handrails.

A PRAIRIE FALCON was seen at the Vancouver Airport on Sea Island,
on one of the towers on the south runway. 25 COMMON TERNS were
off the end of the Iona Island south jetty, and a SORA was at the Iona
marsh.

Point Roberts had 2 RHINOCEROS AUKLETS and a PARASITIC JAEGER.

A CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD was reported from Queen Elizabeth Park in
Vancouver.


Tuesday, May 10:

A BANK SWALLOW was seen over Iona Island, Richmond

2 GREEN HERONS were along Fraser Highway at 208th Street in Langley.


Monday, May 9:

A PURPLE MARTIN was seen at Blackie Spit, along with 22 WHIMBREL and
a GREAT HORNED OWL was along Farm Slough.


Sunday, May 8:

The Maplewood Conservation Area in North Vancouver had 2 TURKEY
VULTURES overhead, and an adult GLAUCOUS GULL was along the seawall
in Stanley Park, Vancouver, between Siwash Rock and Prospect Point, before
it flew across Burrard Inlet towards the Capilano River.


Saturday, May 7:

A CHIPPING SPARROW was at Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver, near the
lookout at top of the steps going to the lighthouse in bushes near an
equipment shack.


For further information about birding in the Vancouver area, log onto
the Vancouver Natural History Society's website at
http://www.naturalhistory.bc.ca/VNHS/


This message was recorded and transcribed by John Kalman, and
forwarded by Wayne Weber.


Wayne C. Weber
Delta, BC
contopus at telus.net