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 June 04, 2006:
The Sunday Bird Walk went to Legacy Marsh, fourteen birders found the
following fifty
species.
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Common Mergangser
Hooded Mergangser
Bald Eagle
Band-tailed Pigeon
California Quail
Rufous Hummingbird
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Willow Flycatcher
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Cassin's Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Steller's Jay
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Barn Swallow
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Dark-eyed Junco
Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Western Tanager
Spotted Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Black-headed Grosbeak
Northwestern Crow
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Purple Finch
House Finch
American Goldfinch

Saturday June 03:
A RINGED TURTLE- DOVE was spotted in the 4600 block of Lost Lake Road in
Nanaimo.
VESPER SPARROWS were seen off Haslam Road near the Airport in Cassiday.
CASPIAN TERNS were seen at the Nanaimo River Estuary in south Nanaimo and at
the Englishman Estuary in Parksville.
A WESTERN TANAGER was seen near the Springwood School in Parksville.
WILLOW FLYCATCHERS and BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAKS were seen just off Corfield
Road in Parksville.
A COMMON NIGHTHAWK was heard calling over Riverside Road at Cowichan
Station.
A BULLOCK'S ORIOLE was seen and heard at McGregor Marsh in north Nanaimo.

Thursday June 01:
A BARRED OWL was calling and a MERLIN was spotted chasing a NORTHERN FLICKER
along Rose Ann Drive in Nanaimo.
PINE SISKINS were seen at Dorcas Point at Beachcomber at Nanoose Bay.
A MOURNING DOVE was seen in a field near Blower Road in Parksville.

Wednesday May 31:
Three CEDAR WAX-WINGS were seen eating on Red Hot Poker Plants along Lebarz
Road in Nanaimo.

Tuesday May 30:
BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAKS are visiting a backyard along Lancewood Avenue in
Lantzville.
One COMMON NIGHTHAWK was seen in the 700 block of Erminskin Road in
Parksville.

Monday May 29:
Two WHIMBRELS were seen at the mud flats at Pipers Lagoon in Nanaimo.
One ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD was spotted at the end of Barrington Road in Nanaimo.

Sunday May28:
PURPLE MARTINS and a SANDHILL CRANE were spotted over Cowichan Station south
of
Duncan.
There was a successful nesting of GREAT HORNED OWLS on a farm at Cowichan
Station with at least two, and possibly three, young reared.
Two AMERICAN GOLDFINCH were seen at feeders just off Turner Road in Nanaimo.
A WILSON'S WARBLER was seen in a birdbath and feeding in a garden in
Parksville.
VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS were seen looking at a nestbox in the 200 block of
Dawkins Lane in 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
www.thebirdstore.ca
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The Nanoose Naturalists
Monthly Meeting
Thursday, June 08, 7:00 pm
Nanoose Library,
Nanoose Bay
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Arrowsmith Naturalists
Monthly Meeting,
Springwood School Parksville
Monday, June 26, 7:30 pm.
Dr. Gordon Hartman will talk on
"Ecological Sustainability vs Demographic and Economic Growth-
Humans Goals in Conflict"
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Nanaimo Field Naturalists
Monthly Meeting
Wednesday, June 28, 7:30 PM,
Bowen Park Activity Centre,
Nanaimo.
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The Sunday Bird Walk, June 11 , 2006, will be going to Morden Collery
Historic Provincial Park.
Meet at the Backyard Wildbird and Nature Store at 8:30 am or at the end of
Morden Road at about 8:50 am.

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Good Birding!
Neil Robins
Nanaimo
British Columbia
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Canada Geese Goslings: Photo by Ralph Hocken





























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