Nanaimo bird report”
“Explore
Nature--Go Birding”
To report
your sightings call the birdstore at 250-390-3669 or e-mail thebirdstore@shaw.ca
Please remember when reporting a sighting please leave your name and phone number with the date and location of the sightings.
Please remember when reporting a sighting please leave your name and phone number with the date and location of the sightings.
Sunday Bird Walk, March 19,
2017
The
Sunday bird walk went to Bowen Park in Nanaimo. The morning was sunny with calm
winds. A Yellow-rumped Warbler was heard
and then seen at the start of the walk. An
Orange-crowned Warbler was heard singing. We saw a Pileated
Woodpecker working on his nest hole and two other Pileated Woodpeckers
hammering a snag. Seven Brown Creepers
were seen throughout the morning climbing up the trunks of trees. Bewick's Wrens and Pacific Wrens were seen
several times and they entertained us all morning. Two Downy Woodpeckers were pecking at a tree
very close to the trail, giving us a
great show.
Yellow-rumped Warbler:
Ralph Hocken Photo:
Sixteen
birders saw and heard the following Twenty-seven species:
Mallard
Hooded Merganser
Glaucous-winged Gull
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Red-breasted
Nuthatch
Anna's Hummingbird
Pileated Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Red-breasted
Sapsucker
California Quail
Rock Dove
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
Yellow-rumped
Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Bewick's Wren
Pacific Wren
Bushtits
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Brown Creeper
American Robin
Varied Thrush
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Four
Band-tailed Pigeons were seen along Meridian Way in Parksville.
Parksville/Qualicum Beach, Tuesday Bird Walk,
March 14, 2017
The
Tuesday bird walk went to the Brant Viewing Platform and the Little Qualicum
River Estuary in north Qualicum Beach. The morning started out cloudy with
light rain, but the sun came out, making for one of the first sunny
walks in a long while! Thousands of Surf Scoters,
twenty Long-tail Ducks, several Lesser Scaup and hundreds of
Greater Scaup were seen from the viewing platform. Several Bald
Eagles were seen resting on a log along the shore. A Western Gull
and thousand's of Mew Gulls, California Gulls, Thayer’s Gulls and
Glaucous-winged Gulls were flying and resting on the shoreline and gravel bars
all morning. Hundreds of Common Goldeneye and Barrows
Goldeneye were seen on the Strait just beyond the gravel bar at the
estuary. A large number of Common Mergansers’ were
roosting on the River. We spotted a Cooper’s Hawk perched on
a tall Conifer Tree on the estuary giving us great views. There were an
estimated three thousand singing Brant Geese not fifty feet from the
shore----a great sight!
Brant Geese: Ralph Hocken
Photo.
Fourteen birders including two visiting birders from Ottawa saw and heard the following forty-three species;
Fourteen birders including two visiting birders from Ottawa saw and heard the following forty-three species;
Brant
Canada
Geese
Mallard
Green-winged
Teal
American
Widgeon
Surf
Scoter
White-winged Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Long-tail
Duck
Lesser
Scaup
Greater
Scaup
Bufflehead
Northern
Pintail
Barrows
Goldeneye
Common
Goldeneye
Horned
Grebe
Common
Merganser
Common
Loon
Pacific
loon
Double-crested
Cormorant
Great
Blue Heron
Bald
Eagle
Red-tailed
Hawk
Cooper’s
Hawk
Sanderling
Killdeer
Black
Oystercatcher
Western Gull
Mew
Gull
California
Gull
Thayer’s
Gull
Glaucous-winged
Gull
Belted
Kingfisher
Northern
Flicker
Northwestern
Crow
Chestnut-backed
Chickadee
American
Robin
European
Starling
Spotted
Towhee
Song
Sparrow
Golden-crowned
Sparrow
Red-winged
Blackbird
Purple
Finch
House Sparrow
California Gull: Ralph
Hocken Photo
Tuesday,
March 14:
A first
of the year a Turkey Vulture was seen above the Waterline trail off Nanaimo
Lakes Road in Nanaimo.
Two Violet-green Swallows
were seen above Arrowsmith Road in French Creek.
Monday, March 13:
A Ring-necked Pheasant was
seen in the Sherwood Forest area of Nanaimo.
Bird walks this week.
The Tuesday bird walk
on March 21, 2015 will be going to Columbia Beach. Meet at the Parksville
Community Park at the parking lot near the Lions Club Kids Playground at
9:00 a.m. or at the parking area off Admiral Tryon Blvd. (Turn off highway 19a
at Columbia Drive, turn right at Admiral Tryon Blvd. go about one hundred yards
to the parking area)
The Sunday bird walk on March 26, 2017 will be going to Neck Point Park
in Nanaimo. Meet at the Birdstore at 9:00 a.m. or at the main parking lot at
Neck Point (off Hammond Bay Road) at at about 9:15 a.m.
Revive the Nanaimo
Naturalists’ Club
Monday April 3rd 2017 at
7 PM Vancouver Island University,
Building 180 Room 134.
All welcome
Enjoy a great
presentation by John Neville and help to get a naturalists’ club going again in
Nanaimo
Good birding
Neil Robins
THE BACKYARD WILDBIRD & NATURE
STORE
314 Metral Drive
Nanaimo
V9T-2L8
Phone: 250-390-3669
Phone: 250-390-3669
Fax: 250-390-1633
Email: thebackyard@shaw.ca
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