The Backyard Wildbird and Nature Store

To report your sightings
please phone the Store at 390-3669
or e-mail us at thebackyard@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.

Friday June 29, 2007:
A CHUKAR was seen on Thetis Island.

Wednesday June 27:
The Wednesday bird walk went to Lot Ten in Qualicum Beach. Seven birders found the following thirty-eight species: CALIFORNIA QUAIL, TURKEY VULTURE, BALD EAGLE, GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL, BAND-TAILED PIGEON, RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, BELTED KINGFISHER, RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER,
DOWNY WOODPECKER, NORTHERN FLICKER, PILEATED WOODPECKER, OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, WILLOW FLYCATCHER, PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER, CASSIN'S VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, NORTHWESTERN CROW, COMMON RAVEN, VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW, CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEE, BROWN CREEPER, BEWICK'S WREN, WINTER WREN, AMERICAN DIPPER, GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, AMERICAN ROBIN, EUROPEAN STARLING, CEDAR WAXWING, ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, TOWNSEND'S WARBLER, WESTERN TANAGER, SPOTTED TOWHEE, SONG SPARROW, BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK, PURPLE FINCH and PINE SISKIN .

Monday June 25:
COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were seen above Jingle Pot Road by the Millstone River and along Nanaimo Lakes Road in Nanaimo.
A PILEATED WOODPECKER was pecking on a dead Arbutus tree in the 1100 block of Thunderbird Drive in Nanaimo.

Friday June 22:
BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAKS were seen visiting feeders in the 5000 block of Rheanna Place in Nanaimo.

For further information on these sightings or for help in identifying a
bird please call:The Backyard Wildbird and Nature Store
@ (250) 390-3669
Toll Free @ 1-888-249-4145
e-mail: thebackyard@shaw.ca

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The Nanoose Naturalists
Monthly Meeting
Thursday July 12, 2007 @ 7:00 pm
Nanoose Library,
Nanoose Bay
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Arrowsmith Naturalists
Monthly Meeting,
Monday, July 23, 2007@ 7:30 pm.
Springwood School
Parksville
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There will be no Sunday Bird Walk on July 01, 2007.
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The Wednesday Bird Walk on July 4, 2007 will be going to the Englishman River Estuary, Plummer Road side
We will meet at the east parking lot of The Parksville Civic and Technology Centre at Jensen Avenue and McCarter Street at 9:00 a.m. in Parksville or at the corner of Plummer Road and Shorewood Drive off Highway 19A about 9:10 a.m.
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The Sunday Bird Walk on July 08, 2007 will be going to McGregor Marsh in Nanaimo.
Meet at the Bird Store at 9:00 a.m. or at the top of Rutherford Road across from the Quilted Duck at about 9:15 a.m.
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Good Birding!
Neil Robins
Nanaimo