The Backyard Wildbird and Nature Store
Nanaimo Bird Report
September 5, 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 September 1:
There was no bird walk on Sunday for the long weekend.
Anna’s Hummingbird, female, photo by John Morrison
Tuesday September 3:
The Tuesday Bird Walk
went to Columbia Beach. The weather was sunny and winds were calm. Not too much
to see out on the water as we saw no loons, a few scoters and mostly Pelagic
Cormorants. Along the shore we had good views of Black-bellied Plovers, Least
and Western Sandpipers and Common Merganser that few by us just feet away.
Thirteen birders saw and heard the following forty
four (44) species:
Red-necked Grebe
Western Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Mallard
Green-winged Teal
Common Merganser
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Cooper’s Hawk
Turkey Vulture
Black-bellied Plover
Black Oystercatcher
Killdeer
Lesser Yellowlegs
Greater Yellowlegs
Black Turnstone
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
California Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Mew Gull
Common Murre
Belted Kingfisher
Eurasian-collared Dove
Anna’s Hummingbird
Pileated Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Willow Flycatcher
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
Steller’s Jay
Chestnut-backed
Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Warbling Vireo
European Starling
Spotted Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
House Finch
Purple Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Greater
Yellowlegs, photo by Ralph Hocken.
Backyard Feeder Notes:
Suet is where all the action is in my backyard right now. There is constant activity with all the usual visitors. The seed feeders are starting to attract a few more species such as the House Finches who are now visiting in small flocks.
There have been more reports of Steller’s Jays about but sometimes when they have arrived in September they are only here for a short time and then disappear, heading back to the woods where the natural seed is abundant or somewhere else to find the natural seed.
I have also noticed the number of Dark-eyed Juncos and Spotted Towhees around my backyard is increasing and in the next month the number of Dark-eyed Juncos will increase more as they return to their wintering area.
Dark-eyed Junco, photo by Ralph Hocken
Please Note:
Check this site (www.thebirdstore.blogspot.com) early Tuesday and Sunday on stormy mornings to see if the walks have been cancelled!
The Tuesday Bird Walk September 10, 2019:
Will be going to Englishman River Estuary, Shelley road. Meet at the Parksville Community Park (near the Lions Club playground parking area) in Parksville at 9:00 am or at the end of Shelley road in Parksville at 9:10 a.m.
The Sunday Bird Walk September 8, 2019:
Will be going to the Englishman River Estuary, Plummer road. Meet at The Backyard Wildbird & Nature Store at 9:00am or at the Plummer road site, at the corner just by the start of the subdivision, at 9:20 am
Good birding!
Colin Bartlett
The Backyard
Wildbird and Nature Store
6314 Metral Drive V9T-2L8
Phone: 250-390-3669
Email: thebackyard@shaw.ca
Blog: www.thebirdstore.blogspot.com
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