The Backyard's Weekly Bird Walk locations are found in the Backyard Bird Report at the very end of the most recent report. Any cancellations will be posted here by 8am the day of the walk. Our first bird walks of the year are going out on Sunday February 4th and Tuesday February 6th. Locations will be posted to our next Bird Report.

Monday 29 August 2011

Birding at Moorecroft Park




















Brown Creeper: Ralph Hocken Photo.

Hi birders,

The Early birders went to the newly opened Moorecroft Park in Nanoose Bay. The morning was sunny and warm with a breeze off the Strait of Georgia. We saw and heard Brown Creepers throughout the morning. A flock of Ruby-crowned Kinglets along with a Hutton's Vireo entertained us as they moved through the bushes not far from us. We watched a Warbling Vireo, Downy Woodpeckers and Hairy Woodpecker, feeding on bushes at the Beaver Pond.

Nine birders saw and heard the following twenty-eight species of birds:
Warbling Vireo
Canada Goose
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Bonaparte's Gull
Mew Gull
California Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Eurasian Collared Dove
Barred Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Hutton's Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Bewick's Wren
Pacific Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
European Starling
Red Crossbill

Good birding
Neil Robins
Parksville
British Columbia

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