NANAIMO BIRD REPORT
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To report your sightings
phone the Store at 250-390-3669
e-mail us at thebackyard at shaw.ca
call the Bird Report at 250-390-3029

Also check the birdstore blog for the latest bird alerts and updates:
www.thebirdstore.blogspot.com

Post your sightings on this site:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bcbirdingvanisland/messages

Birds of British Columbia:
http://www.geog.ubc.ca/biodiversity/efauna/SpeciesChecklists.html

International Birdwatching Guides
http://www.guidedbirdwatching.com

Birdwatching contacts and information find a local birder to go birdwatching
with:
http://www.birdingpal.org/

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

Sunday July 04, 2010:
The Sunday Bird Walk went to Legacy Marsh in Upper Lantzville.
The morning was partly cloudy with calm winds. We saw several Western
Tanagers and Cedar Waxwings through out the morning. We had great looks at
several Willow Flycatchers singing from perches low down in the trees.
There were four Purple Martins and two Black Swifts hawking insects above
the marsh.
Twenty-two birders saw and heard the following fifty-two species of birds:
Great Blue Heron, Pied-billed Grebe, Wood Duck, Turkey Vulture, Bald Eagle,
Barred Owl, California Quail, Rufous Hummingbird, Belted Kingfisher,
Red-breasted Sapsucker, Northern Flicker, Pileated Woodpecker, Common Raven,
Northwestern Crow, Violet-green Swallow, Tree Swallow, Barn Swallow, Purple
Martin, Black Swift, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Marsh Wren, Brown Creeper,
Bewick's Wren,
Winter Wren, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Black-headed Grosbeak, Swainson's
Thrush, American Robin, European Starling, Cedar Waxwing, Warbling Vireo,
Cassin's Vireo, Orange-crowned Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Wilson's Warbler,
Black Throated-grey Warbler, MacGillvray's Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler,
Common Yellowthroat, Pacific-sloped Flycatcher, Willow Flycatcher,
Olive-sided Flycatcher, Western Tanager, Spotted Towhee, Song Sparrow,
Brown-headed Cowbird, Red-winged Blackbird, Purple Finch, Dark-eyed Junco,
House Finch, American Goldfinch and Red Crossbill.

Saturday July 03:
Two Semi-palmated Sandpipers among seventy Least Sandpipers and ten Western
Sandpipers were seen on the Holden Creek side of the Nanaimo River Estuary.

Friday July 02:
An Eurasian Collared-dove was seen preening itself at the top of the snag
on the dyke near where the fence crosses between the tower and the Third
Street parking lot. It then flew off over the marsh and the houses on the
Bird Sanctuary Drive at Buttertubs Marsh in Nanaimo.

There is an Olive-sided flycatcher leading the dawn chorus each day at the
top end of Colbourne Drive in Nanaimo.

Two Common Nighthawks were seen in Cedar.

Two Whimbrel were seen along the shore at Columbia Beach.

Tuesday June 29:
The Tuesday bird walk went to Springwood Park in Parksville. The morning was
mostly sunny but cool in the forest. The Swainson's Thrush and Warbling
Vireo were singing throughout the morning. We watched several Willow
Flycatcher's singing their hearts out from different perches. A flock of
Cedar Waxwings were perched in a tall snag. A MacGillivray's Warbler made a
quick appearance.
Sixteen birders saw and heard the following thirty-seven species:
Ring-necked Pheasant, California Quail, Turkey Vulture, Bald Eagle,
Killdeer,
Glaucous-winged Gull, Band-tailed Pigeon, Rufous Hummingbird, Northern
Flicker,
Willow Flycatcher, Pacific-slope Flycatcher, Warbling Vireo, Northwestern
Crow,
Common Raven, Violet-green Swallow, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Red-breasted
Nuthatch, Brown Creeper, Bewick's Wren, Winter Wren, Golden-crowned Kinglet,
Swainson's Thrush, American Robin, European Starling, Cedar Waxwing,
Orange-crowned Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Black-throated Gray Warbler,
MacGillivray's Warbler, Western Tanager, Spotted Towhee, Chipping Sparrow,
White-crowned Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Purple Finch, Red Crossbill.
American Goldfinch.

A Flock of Red Crossbills was seen in the 1900 block of Harlequin Crescent
in Nanoose Bay.

Saturday June 26:
A pair of Evening Grosbeaks were visiting feeders at the Nanoose Estuary in
Nanoose Bay.

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 Arrowsmith Naturalist meetings will resume in September, 2010
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The Nanoose Naturalists meetings will resume in September, 2010
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Everyone is welcome to join us for a 2-3 hour bird walk on the Sunday and
Tuesday mornings. We leave from the Store at 9 A.M. Sunday Mornings and go
to a different location in and around Nanaimo and from the Parksville
Beach.Community Park at 9 A.M. on Tuesdays and go to different areas in and
around the Oceanside area.
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The Tuesday Bird Walks will resume on September 07, 2010.

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The Sunday Bird Walk on July 11, 2010 will be going to Neck Point Park in
Nanaimo.
We will meet at The Backyard Bird Store at 9:00 A.M. or at the parking lot
at Neck Point Park off Hammond Bay Road at about 9:20 A.M..
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Good birding
Neil Robins

THE BACKYARD
Wildbird & Nature Store
6314 Metral Drive, Nanaimo, BC V9T 2L8
250.390.3669
250.390.1633 fax
thebackyard at shaw.ca
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