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, September 20,
2015:
The Sunday bird walk went to Nanaimo River
Estuary in Nanaimo. The morning was sunny and warm. The highlight of the
morning was the sighting of a Pectoral Sandpiper feeding on a stream with four
Long-billed Dowitchers. A large number of Common Ravens were playing and
talking above us throughout the morning. Savannah Sparrows, White-crowned
Sparrows and American Goldfinch was feeding on a shrub near
the trail.
Pectoral
Sandpiper: Ralph Hocken Photo.
Eight birders saw and heard the following thirty-two species:
Common Loon
Mallard
Hooded
Merganser
Common
Merganser
Great
Blue Heron
Bald Eagle
Northern
Harrier
Peregrine
Falcon
Turkey Vulture
Dunlin
Killdeer
Long-billed Dowitcher
Pectoral
Sandpiper
Thayer’s Gull
Ring-billed
Gull
California Gull
Glaucous-winged
Gull
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Common Raven
Steller's Jay
Chestnut-backed
Chickadee
Ruby-crowned
Kinglet
Bewick's Wren
American Robin
European
Starling
Spotted Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
White-crowned
Sparrow
Purple Finch
American Goldfinch
House
Sparrow
Saturday, September 19:
A Lincoln’s
Sparrow has been a frequent visitor to a backyard along Meridian Way in
Parksville, along with four Steller’s Jays who have taken up residence.
Tuesday, September 15:
The
Tuesday bird walk went to the Little Qualicum River Estuary in Qualicum Beach.
The morning was mostly sunny with calm winds until near the end of the walk
when the winds picked up making for lots of whitecaps on the Strait. We saw
large numbers of Red-necked Grebes, Common Loons, one Pacific Loon and several
Horned Grebes. One Western Grebe, one Pigeon Guillemot and four Common Murre
were spotted offshore. A large number of Mew Gulls, a Western Gull and two
Thayer’s Gulls were perched on a gravel bar not far from shore. Two American
Pipits flew by over the water. A Merlin was perched on a fir tree near the
beach.
Red-neck Grebe: Ralph Hocken Photo.
Nineteen
birders saw and heard the following forty-three species:
Canada
Goose
Turkey
Vulture
Merlin
Mallard
Harlequin
Duck
Common
Mergansers
Surf
Scoters
White-winged
Scoters
Black
Scoter
Common
Loon
Pacific
Loon
Red-necked
Grebe
Horned
Grebe
Western
Grebe
Pigeon
Guillemot
Common
Murre
Black
Oystercatcher
Killdeer
Black
Turnstone
American
Pipit
Double-crested
Cormorant
Great
Blue Heron
Western
Sandpiper
Belted
Kingfisher
Bonaparte's
Gull
California
Gull
Mew Gull
Western
Gull
Thayer’s
Gull
Glaucous-winged
Gull
Eurasian
Collared-Dove
Stellar
Jay
Northwestern
Crow
Common
Raven
Northern
Flicker
Pileated
Woodpecker
American
Robin
Song
Sparrow
Golden-crowned
Sparrow
Savannah
Sparrow
Lincoln's
Sparrow
Chestnut-backed
Chickadee
Bewick’s
Wren
Merlin: Ralph Hocken Photo.
Monday, September 14:
Eight Common Loons, Two Canada Geese, forty American
Wigeon, three Harlequin Ducks, twelve Surf Scoters, four White-winged Scoters,
one Black Scoter, one Horned Grebe, one Red-necked Grebe, two Western Grebes,
four Double-crested Cormorants, four Pelagic Cormorants, one Great Blue Heron,
two Turkey Vultures, two Bald Eagles, fourteen Killdeer,one Greater Yellowlegs,
two Bonaparte Gulls, forty California Gulls, sixty Glaucous-winged Gulls and
two Common Murre were seen along the Strait of Georgia from the Plummer Road
side of the Englishman River in Parksville.
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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 September 22, 2015 will be going to Rathtrevor Provincial
Park in Parksville.
Meet at the Parksville Community Park parking
lot near the Lions playground at 9:00 am or at the main parking lot in
Rathtrevor Provincial Park at about 9:10 am.
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The Sunday bird walk on September 27, 2015 will be going to the Shelly Road
side of the Englishman River in Parksville. Meet at the Birdstore at 9:00
a.m. or at the end of Shelly Road on the ocean side of highway 19a at
about 9:30 a.m.
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British Columbia Rare Bird Alert link--- http://www.bcbirdalert.blogspot.ca/
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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.co
