The Backyard Wildbird and Nature Store
Nanaimo Bird Report
July 2, 2025
“EXPLORE NATURE” --- GO
BIRDING:
To report your
sightings phone the Store at 250-390-3669 or e-mail us at birding@thebackyard.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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MacGillivray’s Warbler (J. Morrison)
Sunday June 29, 2025:
The Sunday Bird Walk went to Legacy Marsh in Lantzville. Weather was sunny and warm, 19C. A good group today with a few new birders out for the first time and a visiting birder from the UK. A few highlights from the walk were seeing a MacGillivray’s Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Black-headed Grosbeak, a glimpse of a Barred Owl, and a great look at a Western Tanager. A few we heard but were unable to see were Cassin’s Vireo, Marsh Wren and Common Yellowthroat.
20 birders saw and heard the following 53 species:
Wood Duck
Hooded Merganser
Pied-billed Grebe
Cooper’s Hawk
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Barred Owl
Anna’s Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Warbling Vireo
Cassin’s Vireo
Western Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Violet-green Swallow
Common Raven
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Bushtit
Brown Creeper
Bewick’s Wren
Marsh Wren
Pacific Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Swainson’s Thrush
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Townsend’s Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow Warbler
MacGillivray’s Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Western Tanager
Black-headed Grosbeak
Spotted Towhee
White-crowned Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Brown-headed Cowbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Red Crossbill
House Finch
Purple Finch
American Goldfinch
Pine Siskin
Red-winged Blackbird (R. Hocken)
If you have any bird sightings to report or need help identifying, just email or call the store, birding@thebackyard.ca or 250-390-3669, toll-free 1-888-808-BIRD (2473)
The Backyard Bird Walks
Our bird walks will be taking a summer break and resume in the fall. For past bird walks and locations check our blog (www.thebirdstore.blogspot.com).
Good birding! Colin Bartlett
