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 August 04, 2013:
The Sunday bird walk went to Bowen Park in Nanaimo The morning was sunny and warm but cool in the forest. Among the highlights was the sighting of several Brown Creepers throughout the morning. We saw over six Anna’s Hummingbirds and one Rufous Hummingbird playing tag in the field near the Rhodo Bushes.
” 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 August 04, 2013:
The Sunday bird walk went to Bowen Park in Nanaimo The morning was sunny and warm but cool in the forest. Among the highlights was the sighting of several Brown Creepers throughout the morning. We saw over six Anna’s Hummingbirds and one Rufous Hummingbird playing tag in the field near the Rhodo Bushes.
Seventeen
birders, including visiting birders from California and Alberta, saw and heard
the following twenty-four species:
Mallard,
Bald Eagle, Eurasian Collared Dove, Rock
Pigeon, Glaucous-wing Gull, Rufous
Hummingbird, Anna’s Hummingbird,
Northern Flicker, Northwestern
Crow, Common Raven, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Black Swift,
California Quail, Bushtits, Golden-crowned Kinglets, Brown Creeper, Pacific Wren,
Bewick's Wren, Dark-eyed Junco, American Robin, Cedar Waxwing, Spotted Towhee and Song Sparrow.
Anna’s: Ralph Hocken Photo.
A flock
of Red Crossbills was seen feeding at a cedar log at Lantzville Beach.
Wednesday, July 31:
A pair of
Red Crossbills was seen in a garden along the Little-Qualicum River north of
Qualicum beach.
Monday,
July 29:
Over one hundred Common Nighthawks were seen over
Wren Place and Woodthrush Place in Nanaimo.
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Brown
Creeper: Ralph Hocken Photo.
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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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We will
not be doing the Tuesday Bird Walks over the summer months. They will
resume on September 03, 2013
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The Sunday
Bird Walk on August 11 will be going to Linley Valley in Nanaimo.
We will meet at the bird store at 9:00 a.m. or at about 9:20 am at the end of
Burma Road off Lost Lake 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
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