Osprey: Ralph Hocken Photo.
NANAIMO BIRD REPORT
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To report your sightings
phone the Store at 250-390-3669
e-mail us at thebackyard@shaw.ca
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
Birding in Central and South America:
www.wildbirdtours.ca
Identify backyard birds:
National Geographic Bird Identifier Site
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birding/backyard-bird-identifier/
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, the species and location of your sighting.
Sunday September 12, 2010:
The Sunday Bird Walk went to Bowen Park in Nanaimo. It was drizzling rain all morning but the wind was calm .
The highlight of the morning was the sighting of two Osprey perched and talking from the top of two tall Cedar Trees near their nest.
Four hardy birders saw and heard the following thirteen species of birds:
Mallard, Osprey, Anna's Hummingbird, Belted Kingfisher, Northern Flicker, Steller's Jay, Northwestern Crow, Common Raven, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Brown Creeper, Bewick's Wren, Dark-eyed Junco.
A Wandering Tattler was seen foraging on the barnacle-covered rocks just west of the boardwalk lookout at Neck Point in Nanaimo.
A Greater Yellowlegs, two Western Sandpipers and five Spotted Sandpipers were foraging along the water line at Sunset Beach in Neck Point, Nanaimo.
A mixed flock of Orange-Crowned and Townsend's Warblers moved among the trees at Sunset Beach, in Neck Point Park, Nanaimo.
Friday September 10:
Canada Goose, American Wigeon, Mallard, Surf Scoter, Common Loon, Great Blue Heron, Greater Yellowlegs, Bald Eagle, Sharp-shinned Hawk, American Kestrel, Merlin, Marbled Murrelet, Band-tailed Pigeon, Black Swift, Belted Kingfisher, Northern Flicker, Pileated Woodpecker, Cassin's Vireo, Steller's Jay, Northwestern Crow, Common Raven, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Bewick's Wren, American Robin, European Starling, Cedar Waxwing, Spotted Towhee, Song Sparrow, House Finch were seen at the Shelly Road side of the Englishman River Estuary in Parksville.
Ring-necked Duck, Black-bellied Plover, Killdeer, Black Turnstone, Black Oystercatcher,Western Sandpiper, Bonaparte's Gull, Heermann's Gull, Mew Gull, California Gull and Glaucous-winged Gull were seen at Pebble Beach in Columbia Beach.
Thursday September 09:
A pair of Steller's Jays were seen in a backyard along Bunker Place in Sandpiper, Qualicum Beach.
Twenty House Sparrow, eight House Finch, one Purple Finch, one American Goldfinch, one Red-breasted Nuthatch, one Stellar's Jay, fifteen Chestnut-backed Chickadees and twelve Bushtits are visiting feeders along Lancashire Avenue in Nanaimo.
Wednesday September 07:
The Parksville/ Qualicum Beach Tuesday bird walk began today for the fall season and went to the Shelly Road side of the Englishman River Estuary in Parksville. The morning was cloudy and cool but the winds were calm.
The highlights of the morning included a good look at a Greater Yellowlegs flying over us, singing as it headed over the forest from the ocean. A Sharp-shinned Hawk flew not far from of us over the estuary, checking out the stumps and shrubs for a morning snack. A Yellow Warbler and a Black-throated Gray Warbler gave us quick looks as they gleaned insects on a short Alder Tree. We had numerous sightings of Black Swifts as we walked back from the viewing platform on the west side of the forest.
Ten birders saw and heard the following thirty-five species of birds:
American Wigeon, Mallard, Surf Scoter, Common Merganser, Great Blue Heron,
Bald Eagle, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Killdeer, Greater Yellowlegs, California Gull,
Glaucous-winged Gull, Black Swift, Vaux's Swift, Belted Kingfisher, Downy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Cassin's Vireo, Steller's Jay, Northwestern Crow,
Common Raven, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Brown Creeper, Bewick's Wren, Cedar Waxwing, Orange-crowned Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Black-throated Gray Warbler, Spotted Towhee, Savannah Sparrow, Song Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Purple Finch and Cassin's Finch.
Monday September 06:
A Sharp-shinned Hawk put an end to the feeding of Pine Siskins, American Goldfinch, a Downy Woodpecker, a Hairy Woodpecker, a Pileated Woodpecker, a pair of Northern Flickers and California Quail in a backyard along Meridian Way in Parksville.
A Horned Lark and a Lincoln's Sparrow were seen in the bushes near the end of Admiral Tryon Blvd. at Columbia Beach.
Three Eurasian Collared Doves and five Steller's Jays were seen in a backyard along Dawkins Lane in Nanaimo.
Sunday September 05:
Two Bewick's Wrens , Steller's Jays, Band-tailed Pigeons, Orange-crowned Warblers, Yellow Warblers and Hairy Woodpecker are visiting a backyard in the 6900 block of Lancewood Avenue in upper Lantzville.
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 meeting.
October 14th at 7 pm
in the Library on Northwest Bay Road.
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The Arrowsmith Naturalist 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 on September 14, 2010. will be going to the Plummer Road side of the Englishman River Estuary in Parksville.
We will meet at the Parksville Beach Community Park, at the parking area in front of the Lions Playground at 9 A.M. or at the corner of Plummer Road and Shorewood Drive at about 9:10 A.M.
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The Sunday Bird Walk on September 19, 2010 will be going to the Shelly Road side of the Englishman River Estuary in Parksville.
We will meet at The Backyard Bird Store at 9:00 A.M. or at the end of Shelly Road, on the ocean side of Highway 19A, at about 9:30A.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@shaw.ca
CHECK OUT OUR BLOG---> www.thebirdstore.blogspot.com
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