Nanaimo bird report:

Nanaimo bird report, January 06, 2019:

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.
**************************************************

Sunday bird walk, January 06, 2019

The Sunday bird walk went to Neck Point Park in Nanaimo. The morning was sunny with calm winds. After a month of missed Sunday bird walks because of the weather, we finally got to bird Neck Point!  Highlight of the morning was the sighting of a Yellow-billed Loon.  We followed the Loon for about one hour with great views. A Red-breasted Sapsucker was seen feeding on a tree trunk right next to the trail again, giving us great views. We saw many Harlequin Ducks, Common Mergansers, Red-breasted Mergansers and big flocks of Pacific Loons on the Strait of Georgia.  One lone Western Grebe was spotted further off shore. 

Yellow-billed Loon: Ralph Hocken Photo:

 Seventeen birders saw and heard the following thirty-four species:

Mallard

Harlequin Duck

Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser

Pacific Loon

Common Loon

Yellow-billed Loon

Western Grebe

Red-necked Grebe

Pelagic Cormorant

Double-crested Cormorant

Pigeon Guillemot

Great Blue Heron

Bald Eagle

Black Oystercatcher

Black Turnstone

Dunlin

Glaucous-winged Gull

North-western Crow

Common Raven

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

Red-breasted Sapsucker

Northern Flicker

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Brown Creeper

Bewick’s Wren

Song Sparrow

American Robin

European Starling

Anna’s Hummingbird

Spotted Towhee

Song Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

Red-breasted Sapsucker: Ralph Hocken Photo:

Please Note

Check this site early Tuesday and Sunday mornings on stormy mornings to see if the walks have been cancelled!

The Tuesday bird walk on January 08, 2019 will be going to Rathtrevor  Beach Provincial Park in Parksville.  Please check this blog spot if the weather is stormy.  Meet at the Parksville Community Park (at the parking lot in front of the Lions Club Playground) at 9:00 a.m. or at the main parking lot at Rathtrevor Park at about 9:10 a.m.

*******************************************************************

The Sunday walk on January 13, 2019 will be going to Bowen Park in Nanaimo. Meet at the BACKYARD WILDBIRD & NATURE STORE, 6314 Metral Drive at 9:00 a.m. or at the main parking lot at Bowen Park near the Bowing Greens at about 9:15 am.  Again, please check this blog spot if the weather is stormy.

********************************************************************** 

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:http://thebirdstore.blogspot.ca