NANAIMO BIRD REPORT “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 and location of your sighting.
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Sunday, April 26, 2015:
The
Sunday bird walk went to West Buttertubs Marsh in Nanaimo.. The morning was cloudy
with a breeze. The highlights included seeing many flocks of Northern
Rough-wing Swallows, Violet-green Swallows and Tree Swallows flying low over
the meadows, giving us close views. We heard Yellow Warblers and Pacific-slope
Flycatchers singing during the morning.
Yellow Warbler: Ralph Hocken Photo.
Eleven birders saw and heard the following forty species:
Canada Geese,
Mallard
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Red-tail Hawk
Virginia Rail
California
Quail
Eurasian-collared
Dove
Rufous Hummingbird
Anna’s
Hummingbird
Northern
Flicker
Red-breasted
Sapsucker
Northwestern
Crow
Common Raven
Bewick's Wren
Marsh
Wren
American
Robin
Northern
Rough-wing Swallow
Violet-green
Swallow
Tree
Swallow
Bushtit
Brown
Creeper
Chestnut-backed
Chickadee
Pacific-slope
Flycatcher
Orange-crowned
Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Black-throated Grey Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow
Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Savannah
Sparrow
Song
Sparrow
White-crowned
Sparrow
Red-winged
Blackbird
European
Starling
Brown-headed
Cowbird
Purple
Finch
House
Finch
Pine
Siskin
Thursday,
April 23.
An
American Avocet was seen on the mud flats on the Plummer Road side of the
Englishman River in Parksville.
American Avocet: John
Purves Photo.
Tuesday,
April 21:
The
Tuesday bird walk went to Moorcroft Regional Park in Nanoose Bay. The morning
was cloudy and cool with a strong wind off the Strait of Georgia. A Red-throated Loon flew up the
strait—a very unusual sighting for this area. Two Marbled Murrelet were
seen just offshore giving us great looks.
A very fast Parasitic Jaeger flew up the Strait just above the
water. A Common Murre and a Pigeon
Guillemot were spotted further offshore. We heard Pacific-slope
Flycatchers singing during the walk. We saw and heard many Orange-crowned Warblers,
Yellow-rumped Warblers, Townsend’s Warblers and
Black-throated Grey Warblers throughout the morning.
Pacific-slope Flycatcher:
Ralph Hocken Photo.
Twenty-two
birders saw and heard the following fifty-two species:
Mallard
Bufflehead
Harlequin
Duck
Surf
Scoter
White-wing
Scoter
Red-breasted
Merganser
Common
Merganser
Common Loon
Pacific Loon
Red-throated
Loon
Pelagic Cormorant
Marbled Murrelet
Common
Murre
Pigeon
Guillemot
Parasitic
Jaeger
Turkey
Vulture
Bald Eagle
Cooper’s
Hawk
Mew Gull
California
Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Band-tail
Pigeon
Northern Flicker
Downy
Woodpecker
Pileated
Woodpecker
Tree
Swallow
Violet-green
Swallow
Rufous Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird
Pacific-slope
Flycatcher
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Townsend’s
Warbler
Black-throated Grey Warbler
Northwestern
Crow
Common Raven
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Pacific Wren
Brown
Creeper
Golden-crowned
Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
European Starling
Spotted
Towhee
Song
Sparrow
White-crowned
Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Purple
Finch
Red-winged Blackbird
American
Goldfinch
Pine
Siskin
Parasitic Jaeger: Ralph Hocken Photo.
The Tuesday bird walk on April 28, 2015 will be
going to the Top Bridge Trail in Parksville.
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Monday,
April 27:
Arrowsmith
Naturalists meet at Knox United Church in Parksville.
Doors
open at 7 pm. Presentation on Ecological Reserves by Erica McClaren from
BC Parks at 7.30.
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Tofino-Shorebird –Festival
18th Annual May 1-3, 2015
For information please contact----
http://raincoasteducation.org/events/tofino-shorebird-festival
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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 walk on April 28, 2015
will be going to The top Bridge Trail in Parksville. Meet at
the Parksville Community Park playground parking lot at 9 a.m. or at the
parking alone Indrustrial Way in Parksville at about 9:10 a.m.
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The Sunday bird walk on Sunday, May 03 will be going to the Bowen
park in Nanaimo. Meet at the Birdstore at 9:00 a.m. or at the main parking lot
near the Bowing Green at Bowen Park at about 9:15 a.m.
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British Columbia Rare Bird Alert link--- http://www.bcbirdalert.blogspot.ca/
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A must read for those of us who live along the Strait of Georgia.
THE SEA AMONG US
THE AMAZING STRAIT OF GEORGIA
RICHARD BEAMISH AND GORDON McFARLANE
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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
Email: thebackyard@shaw.ca
Blog: www.thebirdstore.blogspot.com
