This is Wayne Weber with an abbreviated update of the Vancouver Natural
History Society's Rare Bird Alert for Thursday, July 11th, sponsored
in part by Wild Birds Unlimited, with stores in Vancouver and North
Vancouver. This update was recorded at 7 AM on July 12th. A more complete
update will be provided by tomorrow. The RBA telephone number is
(604) 737-3074.

If you have a report, leave your name, telephone number, date and
location of your sighting at the end of this recording, including
numbers of birds seen wherever possible. To skip the recording, press
the pound sign on your phone.


RARE BIRD ALERT for a possible LESSER SAND-PLOVER, and continuing for an
INDIGO BUNTING and an ALDER FLYCATCHER.


Sightings for Thursday, July 11th

A bird believed to be a female LESSER SAND-PLOVER was seen at about
4:15 PM on the shoreline of Boundary Bay, between the foot of 104th
and 112th Streets, but closer to 112th. The bird was seen very briefly
in a large flock of shorebirds consisting mainly of WESTERN and LEAST
SANDPIPERS, but also including SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, BLACK-BELLIED
PLOVERS, and other species. The flock flew westward along the Boundary
Bay shoreline and was not seen again.


Sightings for Monday, July 9th

At Colony Farm Regional Park in Coquitlam, the territorial male INDIGO
BUNTING was still present and singing frequently. To find this bird, turn
off Highway 7 (the Lougheed Highway) in Coquitlam) onto Colony Farm Road,
and park in the small parking lot on your left just past the railroad
crossing. The bunting was about 200 metres along the trail (Mundy Creek
Trail) which leads NE from this parking area.

In Surrey, the singing ALDER FLYCATCHER found on June 28 was still present
at Surrey Lake Park on the east side of 152nd Street. From the parking area,
walk east over a bridge and along the north side of the lake to the third
bench, past the end of the lake, which overlooks a cattail marsh. The
flycatcher was singing from a group of willows and alders in the middle of
the marsh.


Sightings for Saturday, July 7th

A RUFF was seen with a MARBLED GODWIT in the West Field at the Reifel
Bird Sanctuary in Delta, but has not been reported since.


If you have any questions about birds or birding in the Vancouver area,
please call Wayne at 604-597-7201, 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 http://naturevancouver.ca .





Wayne C. Weber
Delta, BC
contopus at telus.net