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
Birding Vancouver Island: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bcbirdingvanisland

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

Sunday November 05, 2006:
WILSON'S SNIPE, BEWICK'S WREN, SONG SPARROWS, DARKEYED JUNCOS,
CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEES, and ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRDS were seen along
Westhaven Place in Nanaimo.
The Sunday Bird Walk went to Neck Point Park in Nanaimo
Nine birders found the following thirty-six species:
PACIFIC LOON, COMMON LOON, DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT, PELAGIC CORMORANT,
MALLARD, BUFFLEHEAD, HARLQUIN DUCK, RED-NECKED GREBE SURF SCOTER,
LONG-TAILED DUCK, COMMON MERGANSER, BALD EAGLE, THAYER'S GULL,
GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL, MEW GULL, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, BELTED KINGFISHER,
NORTHERN FLICKER, PILEATED WOODPECKER,
NORTHWESTERN CROW, COMMON RAVEN, STELLER'S JAY,
CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEE, BROWN CREEPER, BEWICK'S WREN, WINTER WREN,
GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET, AMERICAN ROBIN, SPOTTED TOWHEE, SONG
SPARROW, EUROPEAN STARLING, HOUSE FINCH, DARK-EYED JUNCO, BUSHTITS and PINE
SISKINS,

Saturday November 04:
A WILSON'S SNIPE has been visiting a back yard in the 500 block of Primrose
Drive in Nanaimo.
Two SHORT-EARED OWLS and nine TRUMPETER SWANS were seen at the
Nanaimo River Estuary in south Nanaimo.

Thursday November 02:
Two TRUMPETER SWANS landed on the Beaver Pond on Brookwood Drive, off
Rutherford Road in north Nanaimo.

Wednesday November 01:
Large flocks of HOODED MERGANGERS, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, AMERICAN WIGEON and
MALLARDS were seen at Hemer Provincial Park in Cedar.
A PEREGRINE FALCON was perched in a tree beside Highway One, just north of
Duncan.

Tuesday October 31:
A BARRED OWL was being mobbed by NORTHWESTERN CROWS AND
STELLER'S JAYS in the 1200 block of Rose Ann Drive in Nanaimo.

Wednesday October 30:
GOLDEN-CROWNED, FOX, SONG and LINCOLN'S SPARROWS, DARK-EYED JUNCOS, SPOTTED
TOWHEES, AMERICAN ROBINS, NORTHERN FLICKERS, NORTHERN SHRIKES,
CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEES WESTERN MEADOWLARKS, COMMON RAVENS, GREAT BLUE
HERONS, NORTHERN HARRIER, RED-TAILED HAWKS and two SHORT-EARED OWLS were
seen at the
Nanaimo River Estuary in south Nanaimo. The two SHORT-EARED OWLS put on
aerobatic displays and "return fire" to the COMMON RAVENS and scared up six
WESTERN MEADOWLARKS.

Sunday October 29:
A WILSON'S SNIPE has been sighted for the last two days in the Coombs area.

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, November 09 at 7:00 pm
Nanoose Library,
Nanoose Bay
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Nanaimo Field Naturalists
Monthly Meeting
Wednesday, November 22 at 7:30 PM,
Bowen Park Activity Centre,
Nanaimo.
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Arrowsmith Naturalists
Monthly Meeting,
Monday, November 27 at 7:30 pm.
Springwood Middle School,
Parksville
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EVERYONE IS WELCOME ON THE SUNDAY MORNING BIRD WALK, sponsored by
the BACKYARD WILDBIRD AND NATURE STORE. We leave the store at 9 a.m.
and go to a different area in and around Nanaimo each week. BRING YOUR
BINOCULARS AND BIRD BOOK AND JOIN US FOR A MORNING OF BIRDING.
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The Sunday Bird Walk on November 12, will be going to the Nanaimo River
Estuary in Nanaimo.
Meet at the Bird Store at 9:00 a.m. or at the end of Raines Road at about
9:30
a.m.
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Good Birding!
Neil Robins
Nanaimo
British Columbia
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