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.

Tuesday March 14, 2006:
Four WILSON'S SNIPE, one SHORT-EARED OWL, two COOPER'S HAWK and a VIRGINIA
RAIL, vocalizing, were seen in a field near the intersection of Wren and
Hirst Road in Parksville.
Two WESTERN MEADOWLARKS were seen in a yard in the 3200 block of Rock City
Road in Nanaimo.

Monday March 13:
Fifty EVENING GROSBEAKS were seen above Sherman Road in Duncan.

Sunday March 12:
Two VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOWS, a SHORT-EARED OWL and a flock of AMERICAN PIPITS
were seen at the Nanaimo River Estuary in south Nanaimo.
The Sunday bird walk went to Neck Point Park in Nanaimo. Twenty-two birders
found the following forty-four species:
Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Canada Goose
Trumpeter Swan
Mallard
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Barrow's Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Bald Eagle
California Quail
Black Oystercatcher
Mew Gull
California Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Pigeon Guillemot
Anna's Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Steller's Jay
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco

Saturday March 11:
HUTTON'S VIREOS and many HERMIT THRUSH were seen at the Fairwinds Golf
Course in Nanoose Bay.

Friday March 10:
One male ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD was seen at the point at Pipers Lagoon in
Nanaimo.

Thursday March 09:
Five BAND-TAILED PIGEONS and a WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW were seen at feeders in
the 1700 block of El Verano Drive on Gabriola Island.
A male RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD was seen coming to feeders in the 2400 block of
Cross Road in Nanoose Bay.
A RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER has been visiting suet feeders in the 2044 block of
Cross Road in Nanoose Bay.
An AMERICAN ROBIN with white on it's head was spotted in the 200 block of
Westwood Road in Nanaimo.
An ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD is coming to feeders in the 500 block of Alder Street
in Qualicum Beach.

Wednesday March 08:
A TOWNSEND'S WARBLER is visiting suet feeders along Crestwood Place in the
Departure Bay area of Nanaimo.

Tuesday March 07:
A flock of thirty-six EVENING GROSBEAKS are visiting feeders in the 4300
block of Alderwood Drive in Port Alberni.
AN ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD and a NORTHERN FLICKER are visiting feeders in the
1300 block of Lanyon Drive in Parksville.
A WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW was heard singing in the 5400 block of Bayshore
Drive (north of Hammond Bay Road) in north Nanaimo.
A RED-NAPED SAPSUCKER was spotted in the 3100 block of Jamison Road 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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Nanaimo Field Naturalists
Monthly Meeting
Wednesday, March 22, 7:30 PM,
Bowen Park Activity Centre,
Nanaimo.
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Arrowsmith Naturalists
Monthly Meeting,
Springwood School Parksville
Monday, March 27, 7:30 pm.
Graham Beard of the
Vancouver Island Paleontology Society
will speak on
"The Fossils of Vancouver Island"
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The Nanoose Naturalists
Monthly Meeting
Thursday, April 13, 7:00 pm
Nanoose Library,
Nanoose Bay
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This Sunday Bird Walk, March 19, 2006 will be going to the Little Qualicum
River Estuary. Meet at the store at 9:00 am or at the Viewing Tower in
Qualicum Beach at highway 19A and Garnet Road at about 9:30 am.
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Good Birding!
Neil Robins
Nanaimo
British Columbia
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THE BACKYARD
Wildbird & Nature Store
6314 Metral Drive
Nanaimo, BC
V9T 2L8

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