Nanaimo bird report, August 06, 2017

Nanaimo bird report”

Explore Nature ---Go Birding
To report your sightings call the birdstore at 250-390-3669 or e-mail
thebirdstore@shaw.ca

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Sunday Bird Walk, August 06, 2017

The Sunday bird walk went to Bowen Park Nanaimo.  The morning was sunny and warm with calm winds and we welcomed the coolness in the forest.

We watched an Anna’s Hummingbird, a Red-breasted Nuthatch and American Robins mobbing a perched Barred Owl not far from the trail.  A flock of Bushtits flew into a conifer next to the trail. We had great views of a Pacific-slope Flycatcher perched on a tree for a long time--it gave everyone a chance to study him well.  An American Dipper stood looking over the river near the trail.

Barred Owl: Ralph Hocken Photo:

Twenty birders saw and heard the following twenty-four species:

Mallard

Barred Owl

Rock Pigeon

 American Dipper

Glaucous-winged Gull

 Anna’s Hummingbird

 Western Tanager

Purple Martin

Northern Flicker

 Pileated Woodpecker

Red-breasted Sapsucker

Northwestern Crow

 Common Raven

California Quail

Orange-crowned Warbler

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

 Pacific-slope Flycatcher

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Brown Creeper

Bushtit

Song Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

 American Robin

 Spotted Towhee

American Dipper: Ralph Hocken Photo:

Tuesday August 01:

Forty to sixty Common Nighthawks were seen over the 500 block of Louise Road in Ladysmith:

Friday, July 28:

Thirty Western Sandpipers and five Long-billed Dowitchers were seen on the mud flats of the Plummer Road side of the Englishman River in Parksville.

Monday, July 25:

House Wrens were seen nesting in the 2800, block of Dolphin Drive and in the 3500 block of Shetland Place in Nanoose Bay.

Saturday, July 22:

Western Tanagers were seen in the 3500 block of Shetland Place in Nanoose Bay.

The Tuesday Birdwalks will resume on September 5, 2017

The Sunday Birdwalk on August 13, 2017 will be going to Neck Point Park in Nanaimo.  Meet at the Birdstore at 9:00 a.m. or at main parking lot at Neck Point off Hammond Bay Road in Nanaimo at about 9:15 a.m.

Good birding

Neil Robins

THE BACKYARD WILDBIRD & NATURE STORE

314 Metral Drive

 Nanaimo B.C.
V9T-2L8

Phone: 250-390-3669

Fax: 250-390-1633

Email: thebackyard@shaw.ca

Blog: www.thebirdstore.blogspot.com