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 12, 2006:
An ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD is coming to feeders in the Rocky Point area of
Nanaimo.
The Sunday Bird Walk went to the Nanaimo River Estuary in Nanaimo.
Among the highlites were great close looks at the SHORT-EARED OWL and we
watched two NORTHERN SHRIKE hunt from separate perches in the same tree.
Eleven birders found the following thirty-six species:
GREAT BLUE HERON, TRUMPETER SWAN, AMERICAN WIGEON, MALLARD, NORTHERN
PINTAIL, HOODED MERGANGER, BUFFLEHEAD, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, COMMON MERGANSER,
BALD EAGLE,COOPER'S HAWK, RED-TAILED HAWK, NORTHERN HARRIER, SHORT-EARED
OWL, GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL, BELTED KINGFISHER, NORTHERN FLICKER,DOWNY
WOODPECKER, NORTHERN SHRIKE, NORTHWESTERN CROW, STELLER'S JAY, COMMON RAVEN,
AMERICAN ROBIN, EUROPEAN STARLING, SPOTTED TOWHEE, BEWICK'S WREN, WINTER
WREN, BUSHTIT, CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEE, SONG SPARROW, WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROW, GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW, DARK-EYED JUNCO, HOUSE FINCH and PURPLE
FINCH.

Saturday November 11:
A PEREGRINE FALCON was seen flying over the Bird Store on Metral Drive in
Nanaimo.
75 DUNLIN, six BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, seventeen BLACK OYSTERCATCHERS and
BLACK TURNSTONES were seen at the end of Kinkade Road just north Qualicum
Beach.

Friday November 10:
A PEREGRINE was spotted being chased by NORTHWEST CROWS along Meridian Way
in Parksville.
A HOODED MERGANGER was spotted on Diver Lake in Nanaimo.
An ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD was seen visiting feeders in the 500 block of
Greenbrier Place in Nanaimo.

Wednesday November 08:
A SCAUP was seen at Buttertubs Marsh in Nanaimo.

Tuesday November 07:
The TROPICAL KINGBIRD was again in the same area along Dolphin Drive in
Nanoose Bay
A TRUMPETER SWAN was seen swimming just off shore at Rathrevor Provincial
Park in Parksville

Sunday November 05:
A TROPICAL KINGBIRD was seen along Dolphin Drive near Renmora Place in
Nanoose Bay.
A SNOW BUNTING was sighted at Piper's Lagoon in Nanaimo.
A PILEATED WOODPECKER and a HAIRY WOODPECKER are visiting suet feeders on
Mudge Island.

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, 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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The Nanoose Naturalists
Monthly Meeting
Thursday, December 14 at 7:00 pm
Nanoose Library,
Nanoose Bay
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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
JOIN US FOR A MORNING OF BIRDING.
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The Sunday Bird Walk on November 17, will be going to the Nanoose Estuary
in Nanoose Bay.
Meet at the Bird Store at 9:00 a.m. or on the beach behind the church camp
off Arlington Road about 9:15 a.m.
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Good Birding!
Neil Robins
Nanaimo
British Columbia
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