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

Tuesday November 08, 2005:
Seven TRUMPETER SWANS were seen flying east to west across the face of Mt. Benson in Nanaimo.
Two TRUMPETER SWANS were spotted flying over the Parksville Community Centre in Parksville.
One RED-TAILED HAWK was seen flying over Ware Road and Highway19 in Lantzville.

Sunday November 06: The Sunday bird walk went to the Little Qualicum River Estuary in Qualicum Beach. Seventeen birders found 56 species. Among the highlites were a SNOW BUNTING, two WESTERN MEADOWLARKS and a GREATER SCAUP.
Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Greater Scaup
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Barrow's Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Bald Eagle
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Black-bellied Plover
Black Turnstone
Dunlin
Wilson's Snipe
Bonaparte's Gull
Mew Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Thayer's Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Steller's Jay
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Song Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Snow Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
House Finch

HOODED MERGANSERS, BUFFLEHEADS, MALLARDS, AMERICAN WIGEONS, AMERICAN COOTS, WOOD DUCKS, PIED-BILLED GREBES, MARSH WREN, FOX, SONG, GOLDEN-CROWNED and HOUSE SPARROWS, along with CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEES, DARK-EYED JUNCOS, AMERICAN ROBINS, CANADA GEESE, TRUMPETER SWANS, ROCK PIGEONS, STELLER'S JAYS and RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS were seen at Buttertubs Marsh in Nanaimo.

Friday November 04:


A CATTLE EGRET was spotted at the south end of Somenos Marsh in Duncan.

Thursday November 03:
"RARE BIRD ALERT"
A BAR-TAILED GODWIT was seen in the fields behind the 100 block of Cooper Place in Parksville.
A GREAT HORNED OWL was spotted hunting in the fields behind the Parksville Libary in Parksville.
A WILSON'S WARBLER was seen at Buttertubs Marsh in Nanaimo.
A RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD was seen along the 2200 block of Ashlee Street in Nanaimo.
Tuesday October 25:
55 RING-NECKED DUCKS, 12 BUFFHEAD, 8 GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 8 NORTHERN SHOVELERS and a male, slate-coloured DARK-EYED JUNCO were sighted at the Morningstar Golf Course Ponds at French Creek.

Sunday October 23:
A pair of HERMIT THRUSH were seen scratching in the ground along Pintail Drive in Qualicum Beach.

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

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The Nanoose Naturalists Monthly Meeting

Thursday, November 10, 7:00 pm
Nanoose Library,
Nanoose Bay.
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Arrowsmith Naturalists
Monthly Meeting
November 28, 7:30 pm
Springwood School,
Parksville
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Nanaimo Field Naturalists Monthly Meeting
Wednesday, November 30, 7:30 PM,
Bowen Park Activity Centre,
Nanaimo.

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NOTE THE TIME CHANGE FOR THE SUNDAY MORNING BIRD WALK



The Sunday Bird Walk, this Sunday, November 13, will be going to Nanoose Bay.
Meet at the store at 9:00 a.m. or on the beach, behind the Church Camp off Arlington Road and Highway 19 at about 9:15 a.m.


Good Birding!
Neil Robins
Nanaimo
British Columbia
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Black-bellied Plover: Photo by Ralph Hocken