The Nanaimo Bird Report, August 13 2019

The Backyard Wildbird and Nature Store Weekly Bird Report Nanaimo Bird Report, DATE 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 was seen and location of your sighting. *********************************************************** Please Note Please check this site (www.thebirdstore.blogspot.com) early Tuesday and Sunday mornings to see if the walks have been cancelled! ***********************************************************

Sunday Bird Walk, August 11 2019 There was no Sunday bird walk last week. Photo: Surf Scoter (R. Hocken) Tuesday Bird Walk, August 13 2019 The Tuesday bird walk went to Deep Bay. A total of 15 birders saw 45 species. Canada Goose Mute x Trumpeter Swan (hybrid) Harlequin Duck Surf Scoter Common Merganser California Quail Red-necked Grebe Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) Band-tailed Pigeon Anna's Hummingbird Black Oystercatcher Black-bellied Plover Killdeer Black Turnstone Least Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Pigeon Guillemot Marbled Murrelet Rhinoceros Auklet Bonaparte's Gull Mew Gull California Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Common Loon Brandt's Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Cooper's Hawk Bald Eagle Belted Kingfisher Northwestern Crow Chestnut-backed Chickadee Purple Martin Barn Swallow Red-breasted Nuthatch European Starling Cedar Waxwing House Sparrow House Finch White-crowned Sparrow Greater Yellow Legs Band-tailed pigeon Northern Flicker Eurasian Collared Dove Photo: Cedar Waxwing (R. Hocken) *********************************************************** The Tuesday Bird Walk August 20, 2019: Will be going to the Englishman River Estuary (Plummer Rd. 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 9:10 a.m. The Sunday Bird Walk, August 18 2019: Sorry there will be no Bird Walk this Sunday August 18. Sunday bird walks to resume August 25, 2019.

*********************************************************** Please Note Please check this site (www.thebirdstore.blogspot.com) early Tuesday and Sunday mornings to see if the walks have been cancelled! *********************************************************** 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.com