The Backyard Wildbird and Nature
Store
Nanaimo
Bird Report
June
23, 2019
“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 was seen and location of your sighting.
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Sunday June 23:
The Sunday Bird Walk went to Hemer Park in Cedar. Weather was sunny with a bit of cloud and the winds were calm. The walk provides you with a diverse habitat with some open field, woods, marsh and the lake. The group got a great look at a Hutton’s Vireo and a Wilson’s Warbler that came to investigate the group.
Wilson’s
Warbler, photo by John Morrison
Eight birders saw and heard the following forty
two (42) species:
Mallard
Wood Duck
Hooded Merganser
Bald Eagle
Turkey Vulture
California Quail
Band-tailed Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
Anna’s Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Pileated Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pacific-sloped Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Common Raven
Northwestern Crow
Violet-green Swallow
Tree Swallow
Hutton’s Vireo
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Marsh Wren
Bewick's Wren
Pacific Wren
Brown Creeper
Golden-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Swainson’s Thrush
Townsend’s Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Wilson ’s warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Western Tanager
Black-headed Grosbeak
Spotted Towhee
White-crowned Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Purple Finch
Tuesday June 18:
On June 18 the Tuesday bird walk went to Springwood Park in
Parksville. The morning was sunny and winds light. Highlight of the walk was
watching three American Kestrels in the field of Coldwater road. Also was able
to observe a Willow Flycatcher and Chipping Sparrow in the same area. There were
plenty of songs and calls happening on the walk through the woods with Swainson’s
Thrush, Warbling Vireos and Orange-crowned Warblers.
American kestrel, photo by Ralph Hocken
Eight birders saw and heard the following Twenty eight (28) species:
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
American Kestrel
Anna’s Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Northern Flicker
Pacific-sloped Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Common Raven
Northwestern Crow
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Bushtit
Bewick’s Wren
Warbling Vireo
Cassin’s Vireo
American Robin
Swainson’s Thrush
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow Warbler
MacGillivray’s Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
American Goldfinch
Pine Siskin
Backyard Feeder Notes:
Not too much different happening at the backyard feeders. Juvenile birds about the yard and able to fend for themselves although when an adult shows up they beg to be fed. Watch your nest boxes as the birds will soon begin their second broods. A Bewick’s Wren has been hanging out singing near the nest box the chickadees used so it will be interesting to see who ends up nesting in it.
Water is always important and during the summer you may attract a few new visitors to your water source such as Cedar Waxwings, Western Tanager and warblers.
The Tuesday Bird Walk on June 25, 2019 will be going to the Englishman River Estuary, Shelly road side. Meet at the Parksville Community Park (near the Lions Club playground parking area) in Parksville at 9:00 am or at the end of Shelly road at 9:15 a.m.
The Sunday Bird Walk: there will be no Sunday Bird Walks until July 28, 2019. Please check back for the location.
Please Note:
Check this site (www.thebirdstore.blogspot.com) early Tuesday and Sunday on stormy mornings to see if the walks have been cancelled!
Good birding!
Colin Bartlett
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