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

Sunday May 14, 2006:
AMERICAN PIPITS, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, and twelve WESTERN SANDPIPERS were seen
at the Englishman River Estuary in Parksville.
The Sunday Bird Walk went to The Englishman River Estuary in Parksville.
Twenty-three birders found the following 46 species:
Pacific Loon
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Brant Geese
Mallard
Green-winged Teal
Surf Scoter
Pigeon Guillemot
Common Merganser
Merlin
Bald Eagle
California Quail
Rufous Hummingbird
Ring-neck Pheasant
Killdeer
California Gull
Thayer's Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Northern Flicker
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Band-tailed Pigeon
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
Violet-green Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallows
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
American Robin
European Starling
Huttons Vireo
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Common Yellow-throat
Wilson's Warbler
Western Tanager
Spotted Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Brewer's Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Purple Finch
House Finch

Saturday May 13:
A NORTHERN PYGMY-OWL, a PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER and a HAIRY WOODPICKER
were seen at Rivers Edge Road (near the end of Kaye Road ) behind the
Government Weigh Scales at Patrksville.

Thursday May 11:
A BARRED OWL was seen being mobbed by BUSHTITS and CHESTNUT-BACKED
CHICKADEES on lower Cowichan River near where the Tzouhalem Road crosses the
river. A BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK was also seen near the Cowichan River.
BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK, AMERICAN WIGEON, WOOD DUCK, GREAT BLUE HERON,
NORTHERN FLICKER, RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD, PIED-BILLED
GREBE, MARSH WREN, AMERICAN GOLDFINCH, AMERICAN ROBIN, SONG SPARROW,
VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW, CALIFORNIA QUAIL and a BELTED KINGFISHER were seen at
Legacy Marsh in upper Lantzville.

Wednesday May 10:
Sixteen PURPLE MARTINS were seen on the Ladysmith Harbour in Ladysmith.

Monday May 08:
BARN, TREE, VIOLET-GREEN, NORTHERN ROUGH-WING and CLIFFF SWALLOWS, LEAST and
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, PEREGRINE FALCON and a NORTHERN HARRIER were seen
at the Nanaimo River Estuary in south Nanaimo.

Thursday May 04:
An OSPREY was seen fishing at Buttertubs Marsh in Nanaimo.
150 BRANT GEESE and three GREATER YELLOWLEGS were seen just off shore at
Parksville Bay.

Wednesday May 03:
Two flocks of over 150 BRANT GEESE flew in from the south and landed on the
beach at Parksville Bay. A GREATER YELLOWLEGS was seen in the same area at
Parksville 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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Nanaimo Field Naturalists
Monthly Meeting
Wednesday, May 25, 7:30 PM,
Bowen Park Activity Centre,
Nanaimo.
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Arrowsmith Naturalists
Monthly Meeting,
Springwood School Parksville
Monday, May 29, 7:30 pm.
Richard Boyce will present his film
"The Art of Rain Forest"
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The Nanoose Naturalists
Monthly Meeting
Thursday, June 08, 7:00 pm
Nanoose Library,
Nanoose Bay
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There will be no Sunday Bird Walk, May 21 , 2006.
The Sunday Bird Walks will resume on May 28, 2006.
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"PURPLE MARTINS "
Please send your first sighting reports with location, date, time and
observer
information to Bruce Cousens at pmartins at island.net.
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Good Birding!
Neil Robins
Nanaimo
British Columbia
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Western Tanager: Photo by Ralph Hocken




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