This is Wayne Weber with the Vancouver Natural History Society's
Rare Bird Alert for November 11, sponsored in part by Wild Birds
Unlimited, with stores in Vancouver and North Vancouver.
This message was updated at noon on November 12.

The RBA telephone number is (604) 737-3074.


Sightings for Saturday, November 11

10 SNOW BUNTINGS were seen along the gravel road on the south
side of the Tsawwassen ferry jetty in Delta. Also here were 14
BLACK TURNSTONES and 2 EURASIAN WIGEON.

At Blackie Spit Park in Surrey were another 5 EURASIAN WIGEON
and a WESTERN MEADOWLARK.


No sightings reported for Friday, November 10


Sightings for Thursday, November 9

At the foot of 104th Street on Boundary Bay in Delta, a GYRFALCON
was reported, as were 2 SNOW BUNTINGS and an estimated 70,000
DUNLIN.

At the Reifel Bird Sanctuary in Delta, 4 BLACK-CROWNED
NIGHT-HERONS and 150 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS were seen.

Four LONG-TAILED DUCKS were seen along the Stanley Park seawall
in Vancouver, east of Siwash Rock.


Sightings for Wednesday, November 8

3 SNOW BUNTINGS were seen and photographed along the
South Jetty at Iona Island in Richmond.

At the foot of 72nd Street in Delta, 4 SHORT-EARED OWLS and a
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER were seen.


Sightings for Tuesday, November 7

A GREAT HORNED OWL was seen in the abandoned residential area just
north of the Boundary Bay Airport in Delta.


No sightings for Monday, November 6


Sightings for Sunday, November 5

In with a flock of 650 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS along Hornby
Drive in Delta between 104th and 112th Streets (just S of Hwy 99)
were a SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER (juvenile), an AMERICAN
GOLDEN-PLOVER (juvenile), a SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, and 3
RED KNOTS. Nearby, at the foot of 72nd Street, were 2 SHORT-EARED
OWLS and a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK.

The wintering WILLET was seen again along the south side of the
Tsawwassen ferry jetty in Delta, and 100 BRANT were seen off the
north side of the jetty.

At Boundary Bay Regional Park, on the west side of Boundary
Bay in Delta, birds seen included 2 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED
GEESE, 60 BRANT, and 2 NORTHERN SHRIKES.

Another GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was seen at
the Jericho Park ponds in Vancouver.

Two MUTE SWANS were seen in Canoe Pass, Delta, just S
of the Westham Island bridge.


Sightings for Saturday, November 4

Birds reported from the Reifel Bird Sanctuary in Delta included 6
SANDHILL CRANES, an immature NORTHERN GOSHAWK,
2 SHORT-EARED OWLS, 3 BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS,
and a SNOWY OWL on Westham Island just S of the sanctuary.


Sightings for Friday, November 3

On the Vancouver Airport property on Sea Island, Richmond,
birds seen included 4 SHORT-EARED OWLS, a NORTHERN SHRIKE
near the UPS building, and 2 LAPLAND LONGSPURS near the Coast
Guard station. The owls were on the north side of the airport where
they might have been visible from Ferguson Road.


Sightings for Thursday, November 2

A very late STILT SANDPIPER was still present at the Reifel Bird
Sanctuary in Delta.


Sightings for Wednesday, November 1

A MARBLED GODWIT, 2 late SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, and a
LEAST SANDPIPER were seen with hordes of DUNLIN along the
Boundary Bay shoreline in Delta between 96th and 112th Streets.
A SHORT-EARED OWL was also seen near the foot of 72nd Street.



If you have any questions about birds or birding in the Vancouver
area, please call Peter at 604-736-0991, Viveka at 604-531-3401,
or Larry at 604-465-1402. Thank you for calling the Vancouver
Rare Bird Alert, and good birding.

For further information about birding in the Vancouver area, log
onto the Vancouver Natural History Society's website at
www.naturalhistory.bc.ca/VNHS/