To report your sightings
please phone the Store at 390-3669
or e-mail us at thebackyard at shaw.ca
www.thebirdstore.blogspot.com

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

CAUTION:
An ADULT COUGAR was seen at about 4:00 P.M. September 20 on the Fire and
Tranquility Trails in Morrell Wildlife Sanctuary in Nanaimo..

Sunday September 23:
The Sunday Bird Walk went to Neck Point Park in Nanaimo. Twenty-three
birders found the following forty-two species: Pacific loons, Double-crested
Cormorants, Pelagic Cormorants, Brandt's Cormorant, Horned Grebe, Surf
Scoters, Common Merganser, Great Blue Herons, Turkey Vultures, Black
Oystercatchers, Surfbird, Black Turnstones, Glaucous Gull, Thayer's Gull,
Mew Gull, Glaucous-winged Gulls, Belted Kingfisher, Anna's Hummingbirds,
Northern Flicker, Hairy Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Steller's Jay,
Northwestern Crow, Common Raven, Black-throated Gray Warbler, Orange-crowned
Warbler, Chestnut backed Chickadee, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Bushtits, Cedar
Waxwing, American Robin, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Spotted Towhee, Song
Sparrow, Golden-crowned Sparrow, American Pipit, Brown Creeper, Dark-eyed
Junco, Red Crossbill, House Finch, American Goldfinch and Pine Siskin.

Saturday September 22:
Three American Pipits were seen in a back yard at the top of Colbourne Road
in Nanaimo.

Thursday September 20:
A Barred Owl was seen hunting in Morrell Wildlife Sanctuary in Nanaimo.

Tuesday September 18:
A Varied Thrush and two Great Horned Owls were heard calling near Morrell
Circle in Nanaimo.
One American Pipit was seen on the Cottonwood Golf Course in south Nanaimo.

Monday September 17:
A Common Murre was seen between Blunden Point and Maude Island, off of
Lantzville.
Eight Lincoln's Sparrows, over thirty Black Oystercatchers and Least
Sandpipers were seen on the small Islands off the Yellowpoint area of Cedar.

Sunday September 16:
Spotted Towhee, House Wren, Chestnut backed Chickadee, American Robin,
Brown-headed Cowbird, European Starling, Osprey, Bald Eagle, Coopers
Hawk,Golden Crowned Kinglets, Orange Crowned Warbler, Red Breasted
Sapsucker, Red breasted Nuthatch, Mallard, Brewers Blackbird, Red winged
Blackbird, Belted Kingfisher, Northwestern Crow. Cedar Waxwing, Pileated
Woodpecker, Double -crested Cormorant, Wood Duck, Song Sparrow, Red -necked
Grebe, Turkey Vulture, Violet-green Swallow, California Quail and Great Blue
Heron were seen from a deck over looking Quennell Lake in Cedar.
Twenty-four Dark-eyed Juncos were seen at feeders on Cedar Road near
Yellowpoint Road in Cedar.
Two Anna's Hummingbirds, a Steller's Jay and a large flock of American
Goldfinch were seen at feeders in Ladysmith.

Friday September 14:
A Killdeer was seen at the Cottonwood Golf Course in south Nanaimo.

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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The Nanoose Naturalists
Monthly Meeting
Thursday October 11, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Nanoose Library,
Nanoose Bay
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Arrowsmith Naturalists
Monthly Meeting,
Monday, September 24, 2007 at 7:30 pm.
Springwood School
Parksville
Guest Speaker " Neil Dawe"
will give an update on his topic "Sustainability Initiative"
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The Wednesday Bird Walks in Parksville will resume on October 17.
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The Sunday Bird Walk on September 30, 2007, will be going to Buttertubs
Marsh in Nanaimo
Meet at the Birdstore at 9:00 am or at the parking lot at Buttertubs Marsh
bout 9:20 am. (Off Bowen Road)
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Good Birding!
Neil Robins
Nanaimo