The Backyard Wildbird and Nature Store

 

The Backyard Wildbird and Nature Store

Nanaimo Bird Report

April 14, 2023

“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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Chipping Sparrow (R. Hocken) 

Friday April 14, 2023:

Chipping Sparrow is visiting a backyard feeder along with Fox Sparrow, White-crowned and Golden-crowned Sparrows on Drew Road in Qualicum Beach.

Tuesday April 11, 2023:

The Tuesday Bird Walk went to Columbia Beach at the mouth of French Creek.

5 birders saw and heard the following 41 species.

Brant

American Wigeon

Eurasian Wigeon

Mallard

Harlequin Duck

Surf Scoter

Bufflehead

Common Goldeneye

Common Merganser

Red-breasted Merganser

Common Loon

Red-necked Grebe

Pelagic Cormorant

Double-crested Cormorant

Bald Eagle

Killdeer

Black Oystercatcher

Black-bellied Plover

Black Turnstone

Dunlin

Greater Yellowlegs

Short-billed Gull

Bonaparte’s Gull

Glaucous-winged Gull

Northern Flicker

Common Raven

American Crow

Violet-green Swallow

Bewick’s Wren

American Robin

European Starling

Spotted Towhee

Golden-crowned Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

Red-winged Blackbird

House Finch

Purple Finch

American Goldfinch

House Sparrow

Black-bellied Plover (R. Hocken)

Sunday April 9, 2023:

The Sunday Bird Walk was cancelled this week for the Easter long weekend.

Friday April 7, 2023:

A Townsend Solitaire was seen in a backyard on Timberwood Drive Nanaimo.

Townsend’s Solitaire (J. Anderson)

If you have any birds to report or need help identifying, just email or call the store, thebackyard@shaw.ca or 250-390-3669, toll-free 1-888-808-BIRD (2473).

The Backyard Bird Walks

Our bird walks go out Sunday mornings in Nanaimo and Tuesday mornings in Parksville and Qualicum Beach area, are easy walks that go for two to three hours (back for lunch is the plan). Bring binoculars and a field guide. The walks are weather pending.

Please check our blog (www.thebirdstore.blogspot.com) for any cancelations.

The Tuesday Bird Walk, April 18, 2023

Unfortunately, this Tuesday Bird Walk will be CANCELLED.

The Sunday Bird Walk, April 16, 2023

This week’s Sunday Bird Walk will be going to Morrell Wildlife Sanctuary.

Meet at The Backyard Wildbird & Nature Store at 9:00am or at the Morrell parking lot, entrance on Nanaimo Lakes Road by Dogwood Road, at 9:15 am. Weather cooperating.

For cancelled bird walks due to weather, please check The Backyard blog at www.thebirdstore.blogspot.com on the day of the bird walk. A notice will be up before 8:00am if there is a cancelation.

Good birding! Colin Bartlett