NANAIMO BIRD REPORT “EXPLORE NATURE---GO BIRDING"
Please remember, when reporting a sighting, to leave your name and
phone number along with the date, the species and location of your sighting.
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Sunday, August 17, 2014:
The
Sunday bird walk went to Linley Valley in Nanaimo. The morning was sunny and
warm. Three Pileated Woodpeckers entertained us as they fed along of the trunk
of a tree. A female Western Tanager was
perched high in a conifer tree. We caught a glimpse of a Wilson’s Warbler near
the marsh.
Ten
birders saw and heard the following twenty-one species:
Mallard, Wood Duck, Pied-billed Grebe, Great Blue Heron, Turkey
Vulture, Merlin, Anna’s Hummingbird, Pileated Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Common
Raven, Northwestern Crow, Wilson’s Warbler, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Brown Creeper, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Bewick’s
Wren, Marsh Wren, Western Tanager, Spotted Towhee, Song Sparrow and American Goldfinch.
Pileated
Woodpecker: Ralph Hocken Photo.
Saturday, August 16:
A Northern Goshawk was
seen in the 300 block of Seventh Street
in Nanaimo.
Thursday, August 14:
A Black-Throated Gray Warbler was seen
perched in a tree right in front of a 3rd floor balcony, behind the Fire
Station in Parksville.
Monday, August 11:
Two Caspian Terns and a pair of Bonaparte Gulls in breeding plumage
were seen at Parksville Beach in Parksville.
Canada Geese, Mallard, Surf Scoter, White-winged Scoter,
Red-necked Grebe, Pelagic Cormorant, Doubled-crested Cormorant, great Blue
Heron, Black-bellied Plover, Killdeer, Western Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper,
Black Turnstone, Short-billed Dowitcher, California Gull, Bonaparte Gull,
Pigeon Guillemot, Eurasian-collared Dove Northern Flicker, Northwester Crow,
Common Raven, Purple Martin Red-breasted Nuthatch, Brewer’s Blackbird,
White-crowned Sparrow and Song Sparrow were seen along the Plummer Road side of
the Englishman River Estuary in Parksville.
Bonaparte
Gull: Ralph Hocken Photo.
Sunday, August 10:
Two Common Nighthawks were seen and heard above Meridian Way in
Parksville.
Saturday, August 09:
A Sharp shinned hawk was
seen in the 2500 block of Glenayr drive 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. on 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 walks will resume on Tuesday September 02, 2014.
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The Sunday bird walk on August 24, 2014 will be going to the
Plummer Road side of the Englishman River in Parksville. Meet at the Bird Store
at 9:00 a.m. or at the corner of Plummer Road and Shorewood Drive in Parksville
at about 9:30 a.m.
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Nanoose
Naturalists Meeting, September 11, 2014-- 7:00 P.M.
Nanoose Library Hall in Nanoose Bay.
Guest
Speaker- Paula Wild- topic Cougars
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clean water and eat healthy food?"-- David Suzuki
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Good birding
Neil Robins
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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