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
Website: www.thebirdstore.ca
Please remember, when reporting a sighting, to leave your name and phone
number, along with the date and location of your sighting.

Sunday July 09, 2006:
The Sunday Bird Walk went to Hemer Park and Quennell Road in Cedar.
Sixteen birders, including two visitors from Texas, found the following
thirty-four species:
Wood Duck
Mallard
Glaucous-winged Gull
Turkey Vulture
Red-tailed Hawk
Bald Eagle
Rufous Hummingbird
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
California Quail
Northwest Crow
Common Raven
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Tree Swallow
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Orange-crowned Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
American Goldfinch
Western Tanager
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
White-crown Sparrow
European Starling
Brewer's Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird
House Sparrow
Saturday July 08:
Several HOUSE WRENS are nesting and feeding at the end of Peterson Road in
Lantzville.
A family of CHIPPING SPARROWS, BEWICK'S WRENS, WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS,
CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEES and several RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES are visiting
feeders at the Backyard Wildbird & Nature Store in north Nanaimo.
Thursday July 06:
A PINE SISKIN was seen flying across Highway from the Ugly Dwarf Meadows
near the ESSO
gas station at Nanoose Bay.
Two BLACK SWIFTS were seen flying above Corfield Road heading west in
Parksville.
Wednesday July 05:
An adult NORTHERN GOSHAWK was seen flying less than ten feet above the
median along ighway 19, about halfway between Qualicum Beach and Parksville.
A CALIFORNIA QUAIL is nesting in a hanging basket (there is twelve eggs in
the nest) in a yard in Parksville.
Tuesday July 04:
WESTERN SCRUB JAYS and MOURNING DOVES have been seen by the Bartlett family
along Interstate 5 in Washington.
Monday July 03:
BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAKS, BAND-TAILED PIGEONS, NORTHERN FLICKERS, EUROPEAN
STARLINGS, a DOWNY WOODPECKER, CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEES, HOUSE FINCHES,
PINE SISKINS and RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRDS are visiting feeders in the 500 block
of Wheeler Avenue in Parksville.
Sunday July 02:
AMERICAN BITTERN, a PIED-BILLED GREBE, several WOOD DUCKS and a BULLOCKS
ORIOLE were seen and heard at Buttertubs Marsh in Nanaimo.
A large flock of BUSHTITS were spotted in a yard along Lost Lake Road in
Nanaimo.
Friday June 30:
A COOPER'S HAWK was seen chasing an BALD EAGLE near the end of Enos Lake at
the end of Schooner's Cove Drive in Nanoose Bay.
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
www.thebirdstore.ca
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The Nanoose Naturalists
Monthly Meeting
Thursday, September 14, 7:00 pm
Nanoose Library,
Nanoose Bay
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Arrowsmith Naturalists
Monthly Meeting,
Springwood School Parksville
Monday, September 25, 7:30 pm.
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Nanaimo Field Naturalists
Monthly Meeting
Wednesday, September 27, 7:30 PM,
Bowen Park Activity Centre,
Nanaimo.
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The Sunday Bird Walk, July 16 , 2006 will be going to Neck Point Park in
Nanaimo. Meet at the Bird Store at 8:30 am or at the parking area at Neck
Point Park (off Hammond Bay Road) at about 8:45 am.
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Good Birding!
Neil Robins
Nanaimo
British Columbia
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Cedar Waxwing: Photo by Ralph Hocken









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