The Backyard Wildbird and Nature
Store
Nanaimo
Bird Report
July
24, 2019
“EXPLORE NATURE”---GO BIRDING:
To report your sightings phone the Store at 250-390-3669 or e-mail us at thebackyard@shaw.ca. Please remember, when reporting a sighting to leave your name and phone number along with the date the species was seen and location of your sighting.
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Long-billed Dowitcher, photo by Ralph Hocken
Sunday July 14:
4 – Long-billed Dowitchers were seen at the Marshall Stevens estuary in Qualicum Beach. They were located at the north end in a mud channel near the beach parking area.
Saturday July 20:
100 plus Common Nighthawks were seen feeding in the area of Harry Whipper Park on Hammond Bay road.
Sunday July 21:
Approximately a dozen of each, Black-bellied Plovers and Black Turnstones were seen at the north end of Admiral Tyron blvd in French Creek.
Tuesday July 23:
3 – Common Nighthawks were seen in the French Creek area.
Tuesday July 23:
On July 23rd
the Tuesday Bird Walk went to the Plummer road side of the Englishman River Estuary.
The morning was sunny and winds light. A few highlights of the walk was watching
an adult Cedar Waxwing feeding 4 young, a mixed flock of Least and Western
Sandpipers working the river edge feeding and a family of mink.
Cedar
Waxwing, photo by John Morrison
Eight birders saw and
heard the following thirty seven (37) species:
Common Loon
Canada Goose
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Common Merganser
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Semipalmated Plover
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Glaucous-winged Gull
California Gull
Killdeer
Anna’s Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Willow Flycatcher
Pacific-sloped
Flycatcher
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
Chestnut-backed
Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Bewick’s Wren
Warbling Vireo
American Robin
Swainson’s Thrush
Cedar Waxwing
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
MacGillivray’s Warbler
Western Tanager
Spotted Towhee
White-crowned Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Purple Finch
American Goldfinch
Backyard Feeder Notes:
Chickadees have been busy at the store feeders in the last couple of weeks, especially on the peanuts. With the amount of chickadee activity the second broods may have already fledged. Along with the chickadees there have been reports of Red-breasted Nuthatches frequenting the feeders.
Rufous Hummingbirds seem to have finished nesting and left as sightings of them are fewer. This is also happening with the swallows.
We have recently received reports of Black-headed and Evening Grosbeaks visiting backyard feeders.
As nesting comes to an end the birds will begin to flock for the upcoming fall and winter months. This can already be seen with the European Starlings and watch for the chickadees and finches to do the same.
Anna’s Hummingbirds - female, photo by Steen Petersen
Please Note:
Check this site (www.thebirdstore.blogspot.com) early Tuesday and Sunday on stormy mornings to see if the walks have been cancelled!
The Tuesday Bird Walk: July 30
Will be going to the Little Qualicum Fish Hatchery. Meet at the Parksville Community Park (near the Lions Club playground parking area) in Parksville at 9:00 am or at the Fish Hatchery (Follow Claymore Road to the entrance to the Little Qualicum River Fish Hatchery (2.4 Km from highway 19a to the entrance to the fish hatchery just after crossing the bridge over Whiskey Creek) at about 9:20 a.m.
The Sunday Bird Walk: July 28
Will be going to Neck Point Park in Nanaimo. Meet at the Backyard Wildbird and Nature Store (6314 Metral Drive in Nanaimo) at 9:00 am or at Neck Point Park about 9:15 am.
Good birding!
Colin Bartlett
The Backyard Wildbird
and Nature Store
6314 Metral Drive V9T-2L8 Phone: 250-390-3669 |
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