Ruby-crowned Kinglet: 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 December 05, 2010:
The Sunday Bird Walk went to Neck Point in Nanaimo
The morning was clear and quite cool but the winds off the Strait of Georgia were calm.
Fifteen birders saw and heard the following forty-one species of birds:
Mallard, Northern Pintail, Bufflehead, Pacific Loon, Common Loon, Double-crested Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant, Common Goldeneye, Surf Scoter, White-winged Scoter, Harlequin Duck, Horned Grebe, Red-necked Grebe, Common Merganser, Red-breasted Merganser, Marbled Murrelet, Ancient Murrelet, Common Murre, Great Blue Heron, Black Turnstone, Black Oystercatcher, Bald Eagle, Glaucous-winged Gull, Northern Flicker, Northwest Crow, Steller's Jay, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Brown Creeper, Bewick's Wren, Pacific Wren, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Belted Kingfisher, Anna's Hummingbird, American Robin, Varied Thrush, Spotted Towhee, Dark-eyed Junco, House Finch and Song Sparrow.
Saturday December 04:
A MacGillivray's Warbler is visiting feeders in a backyard in the Maple Glen Estates near Chestnut and Hirst in Parksville.
"Rare Bird Alert-Harris Sparrow"
A Harris Sparrow has been visiting feeders along Green Lake Crescent in north Nanaimo.
A Lincoln's Sparrow is visiting a backyard in the in the 5300 block of Hammond Bay Road in north Nanaimo.
Friday December 03:
"Rare Bird Alert-Northern Mockingbird"
A Northern Mockingbird seen in Nanaimo near the corner of Doumont Road and Eyelash Road. The bird was first seen Thursday morning about 9:00 am and then again at 11:35 am on a fence post in a farm field. If traveling on Doumont Road from Metral Drive the bird was located in a field just past Eyelash Road on the right side with some farm equipment.
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.
at the Library on Northwest Bay Road.
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The Arrowsmith Naturalists meeting.
at Springwood School.
Parksville.
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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 Walk on December 07, 2010. will be going to Deep Bay
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 parking area at the Deep Bay Marina at about 9:35 A.M.
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The Sunday Bird Walk on December 11, 2010 will be going to Buttertubs Marsh in Nanaimo.
We will meet at The Backyard Bird Store at 9:00 A.M. or at the parking lot off Bowen 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@shaw.ca
CHECK OUT OUR BLOG---> www.thebirdstore.blogspot.com
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