Nanaimo bird report”
Explore Nature ---Go Birding
To report your sightings call the birdstore at 250-390-3669 or e-mail
thebirdstore@shaw.ca
To report your sightings call the birdstore at 250-390-3669 or e-mail
thebirdstore@shaw.ca
Please remember that when reporting a sighting
leave your name and phone number with the date and location of the sighting.
Sunday Bird Walk, August 27 2017:
The Sunday bird walk went to the Buttertubs
Marsh in Nanaimo. The morning was sunny with cool winds. Wood Ducks, Green-wing Teal, Hooded Merganser
and two Pied-billed Grebes were seen at the start of the walk. We had great
views of a Cooper’s Hawk perched at the top of a conifer tree next to the
trail. Two Cedar Waxwings were spotted at the top of a snag, giving us great
looks. A Western Tanager stopped at the top of a tree
long enough to give us a good look at it.
Pied-billed Grebe: Ralph
Hocken Photo.
Twenty-two birders
including a visiting birder from Seattle saw and heard following twenty-nine
species:
Canada Geese
Mallard,
Wood Duck
Green-wing Teal
Hooded Merganser
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron,
Turkey Vulture,
Cooper’s hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Glaucous-winged Gull
Eurasian-collared
Doves
Rock Doves
Tree Swallow
Northern Flicker
Anna’s Hummingbird
Orange-crowned
Warbler
Cedar Waxwing
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
California Quail
Chestnut-backed
Chickadee,
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Marsh Wren
Western Tanager
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Purple Finch
American Goldfinch
House Finch
House Sparrow.
Western Tanager:
Ralph Hocken Photo.
Wednesday August 23
A Great Horned Owl
was seen at Neck Point Park on the trail near the last Beach.
The Tuesday Birdwalks will resume on September 5, 2017.
The Sunday Birdwalk on September 03, 2017
will be going to the Nanaimo River Estuary in south Nanaimo. Meet at the
Birdstore at 9:00 a.m. or at end of Raines Road at about 9:30 a.m
Good birding
Neil Robins
THE BACKYARD WILDBIRD & NATURE STORE
314 Metral Drive Nanaimo B.C.
V9T-2L8
V9T-2L8
Phone: 250-390-3669Fax: 250-390-1633
Email: thebackyard@shaw.ca
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