To report your sightings
please phone the Store at 390-3669
or e-mail us at thebackyard at shaw.ca
www.thebirdstore.blogspot.com
Bird Alert --390-3029---
Post your sightings on this site--
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bcbirdingvanisland/messages

"Christmas Bird Counts"
If you would like to participate in one or all of the Christmas Bird
Counts, contact the following people:

Nanoose Bay Christmas Bird Count
December 14, 2007
Contact-Rhys Harrison at
rhysharrison at shaw.ca
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Parksville--Qualicum Beach Christmas Bird Count
December 16, 2007
Contact- Sandra Gray at
saninerr at shaw.ca
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The Nanaimo Christmas Bird Count
Sunday December 30, 2007
Contact- Carlo Pavan
cpavan at uvic.ca
Phone-758-3765
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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 December 02, 2007:
A Sandhill Crane was seen at Pipers Lagoon in Nanaimo.
The Sunday bird walk was cancelled.

Saturday December 01:
An Anna's Hummingbird is visiting feeders along Victoria Road in south
Nanaimo.
An albino Dark-eyed Junco was seen in with other Dark-eyed Juncos along Mill
Road near Westwood Lake in Nanaimo.
Ten Trumpeter Swans were seen heading south west over Parksville.
A Sandhill Crane landed in an empty lot along Bayshore Drive in north
Nanaimo.

Friday November 30:
"RARE BIRD ALERT" TROPICAL KINGBIRD
A Tropical Kingbird was seen at 11:00 am today in the 7700 block of Anderson
Drive on Hornby Island. The Kingbird was eating berries from a bush. The
Kingbird is a rare, but regular visitor during fall and winter along the
west coast of British Columbia.

Wednesday November 28:
It was a typical fall day at the Englishman River Estuary with windy, cool
and a light shower conditions. Eleven birders braved the elements and
identified the following thirty-six species:
Common Loon, Pacific Loon, Double-crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron,
Horned Grebe, Red-necked Grebe, Surf, White-winged and Black Scoters,
Greater Scaup, Harlequin Duck, Barrow's and Common Goldeneye, Red-breasted
and Common Merganser, Bald Eagle, Merlin, Mew Gull, Thayer's Gull,
Glaucous-winged Gull, Northern Flicker, Northwestern Crow, Chestnut-backed
Chickadee, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Bewick's Wren,
American Robin, Northern Shrike, Spotted Towhee, Golden-crowned and
White-crowned Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Red Crossbills, Purple Finch, Pine
Siskin, American Goldfinch.

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
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Arrowsmith Naturalists
Monthly Meeting,
Monday, December, 2007 at 7:30 pm.
Springwood School
Parksville
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The Nanoose Naturalists
Monthly Meeting
Thursday December 13, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Nanoose Library,
Nanoose Bay
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There will be no Wednesday Bird Walk on December 05. The Wednesday Bird
Walks will resume in the New Year.
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The Sunday Bird Walk on December 09, 2007, will be going to Buttertubs Marsh
in Nanaimo.
Meet at the Birdstore at 9:00 am or at the parking area off Bowen Road at
about 9:20 a.m.
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Good Birding!
Neil Robins
Nanaimo