NANAIMO BIRD
REPORT
” GO BIRDING--EXPLORE NATURE”
Please remember, when reporting a sighting to leave your name and phone number along with the date, the species and location of your sighting.
To report your sightings phone the Store at 250-390-3669 or e-mail us at thebackyard@shaw.ca
Sunday July 14, 2013:
The Sunday bird walk went to the Englishman River Estuary, Plummer Road side in Parksville.. The morning was sunny and warm with a cool wind blowing off the Strait of Georgia. The highlight of the morning was the sighting of a Peregrine Falcon as it flew over us at the waters edge. We watched as it flew to the mudflats, pick up a shorebird and headed out of sight to feed on the prey.
” GO BIRDING--EXPLORE NATURE”
Please remember, when reporting a sighting to leave your name and phone number along with the date, the species and location of your sighting.
To report your sightings phone the Store at 250-390-3669 or e-mail us at thebackyard@shaw.ca
Sunday July 14, 2013:
The Sunday bird walk went to the Englishman River Estuary, Plummer Road side in Parksville.. The morning was sunny and warm with a cool wind blowing off the Strait of Georgia. The highlight of the morning was the sighting of a Peregrine Falcon as it flew over us at the waters edge. We watched as it flew to the mudflats, pick up a shorebird and headed out of sight to feed on the prey.
Eighteen birders, including a birder from
California saw and heard the following thirty-eight species: Canada Goose, Common Merganser,, Common Loon,
Great Blue Heron, Marbled Murrelet, Bald Eagle, Peregrine Falcon, Northern
Harrier, Turkey Vulture, Killdeer, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper,
Western Sandpiper, Semipalmated Plover, Black-bellied Plovers, California Gull,
Bonaparte Gull, Glaucous-winged Gull, Belted Kingfisher, Black-throated
Warbler, Orange-crowned Warbler, Warbling Vireo, Rufous Hummingbird, Northern
Flicker, Northwestern Crow, Common Raven, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Bewick's
Wren, Willow Flycatcher, Cedar Waxwing, American Robin, Swainson's Thrush,
European Starling, Black-headed Grosbeak, Spotted Towhee, White-crowned
Sparrow, House Finch, and American Goldfinch.
Peregrine Falcon: Ralph Hocken .Photo.
Five American Black Ducks were seen at the Cottonwood
Golf Course in south Nanaimo.
Wednesday, July
17:
A Great Horned
Owl was seen along the East Wellington Overpass on Highway 19, in Nanaimo.
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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. **************************************************************************lWe
will not be doing the Tuesday Bird Walks over the summer months. They
will resume on September 03, 2013
Sunday Bird Walk
on August 04 will be going to Bowen Park in Nanaimo. We will meet at the
bird store at 9:00 a.m. or at 9:20 am in the parking lot at Bowen Park near the
bowling green off Bowen Road.
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Good birding
Neil Robins
Good birding
Neil Robins
Nanaimo
THE BACKYARD
WILDBIRD & NATURE STORE
6314 Metral Drive
Nanaimo B.C.
V9T-2L8
Phone: 250-390-3669
Fax: 250-390-1633
