Nanaimo Bird Report - August 30 2015

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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The Tuesday bird walks will resume on September 08, 2015

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NANAIMO BIRD REPORT

August 30 2015

American Kestrel (Photo: Ralph Hocken)

This week the Sunday bird-walk went to the Plummer rd. side of the Englishman River Estuary and there was a possible sighting of a Northern Waterthrush in front of the viewing stand on the Plummer rd side of the estuary. There have been lots of reports of flocks of house finches visiting feeders this 

week in Nanaimo, and some sightings of purple finches frequenting feeders in the past week.

There will be no bird walk September 6 2015 due to the Labour Day weekend and on September 13 2015 the walk will be heading to Neck Point Park (meet at the store at 9:00am or in the Neck Point parking lot at approximately 9:10am)

Happy birding!

August 28 2015

A Savannah Sparrow was spotted along Meridian Way in Parksville.

August 30 2015

Canada Goose

Double-crested Cormorant

Mallard

Great Blue Heron

Glaucous-winged Gull

Red-tailed Hawk

Merlin

Bald Eagle

Western Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper

Greater Yellowlegs

Killdeer

Anna’s Hummingbird

Belted Kingfisher

Northern Flicker

Pileated Woodpecker

Northwestern Crow

Common Raven

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Bewick’s Wren

American Robin

Cedar Waxwing

European Starling

Orange-crowned Warbler

Spotted Towhee

Savannah Sparrow

Song Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow

Spotted Towhee

California Gull

Olive Sided Flycatcher

Coopers Hawk

Black Swift

Turkey Vulture

Vaux’s Swift

Kestrel

Stellar Jay

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Common Merganser

Pacific Slop Flycatcher

Pigeon Guillemot

Surf Scoter

Common Loon

Common Murre

Cassin’s Auklet

Pelagic Cormorant

Swainson ’s Thrush

Lincoln Sparrow

Golden Crowned Sparrow

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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 September 08, 2015

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British Columbia Rare Bird Alert link--- http://www.bcbirdalert.blogspot.ca/
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Good birding!


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