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The Nanaimo Bird Alert
provided by
The Backyard Wildbird and Nature Store
To report your sightings phone
The Bird Alert at: 390-3029 or
The Store at: 390-3669
e-mail: [email protected]

Please remember when reporting a sighting to leave your name, phone
number along with the date and location of your sighting.

Monday August 15, 2005:
Twenty BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS were sighted at the Englishman River Estuary, Shelly Road side.

Sunday August 14:
"RARE BIRD ALERT"
Four STILT SANDPIPERS were seen near the mouth of the river, alongside the Art Gallery at the Englishman River Estuary in Parksville. Six STILT SANDPIPERS were seen at Hamilton Marsh in Qualicum Beach.
THIS IS THE FIRST RECORDING FOR THIS SPECIES IN THE PARKSVILLE-QUALICUM BEACH CHECKLIST AREA!

The Sunday Bird Walk went to Neck Point Park. Nine birders found the following thirty six species:
Pacific Loon
Brandt's Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
White-winged Scoter(3)
Bald Eagle
Black Oystercatcher
Spotted Sandpiper (8)
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Common Murre (2)
Pigeon Guillemot (2)
Marbled Murrelet (3)
Rhinoceros Auklet
Anna's Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Bewick's Wren
Swainson's Thrush
American Robin
European Starling
Western Tanager
Spotted Towhee
Black-headed Grosbeak
House Finch

Saturday August 13:
30 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were seen flying over the San Malo mud flats and eight WESTERN SANDPIPERS were on the mudflats at the Englishman Estuary in Parksville.
A rarely seen flock of STILT SANDPIPERS was found at the Nanaimo River Estuary Holden Creek side.
Two CEDAR WAXWINGS, four BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAKS, six HOUSE FINCH, four CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEES, two RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES, two WESTERN TANAGERS, one BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER, one DOWNY WOODPECKER, and two ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS were seen in a yard in the 3400 block of Harris Crescent in Whiskey Creek.

Friday August 12:
A SHARP-SHINNED HAWK was seen over Meridian Way in Parksville.

Thursday August 11:
One GREATER YELLOWLEGS, one WESTERN SANDPIPER. two SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, four GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULLS, five MEW GULLS, eleven BLACK OYSTERCATCHERS, thirty BLACK TURNSTONES and sixty BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS were seen on a gravel bar in front of the Pebble Beach Townhouses in Columbia Beach.
Two COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were seen heading south above Corfield Road in Parksville.

For further information on these sightings or for help in identifying a
bird please call:

The Backyard Wildbird and Nature Store
@ (250) 390-3669
Toll Free @ 1-888-249-4145
e-mail: [email protected]

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Arrowsmith Naturalists General Meeting
Monday September 26, 7:30 PM
Springwood School, Parksville

Guest Speaker: Bruce Whittington
"Birds in Our Lives"
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Nanaimo Field Naturalists Monthly Meeting

September 28, 7:30 PM,

Bowen Park Activity Centre,

Nanaimo.



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The Sunday Bird Walk this Sunday August 21 will be going to Englishman River Estuary, Plummer Road side in Parksville.
Meet at the Birdstore at 6314 Metral Drive (note our new location) at 8:30 a.m. or at the corner of Plummer Road and Shorewood Drive ( south of the Englishman River )at about 9:00 a.m.
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THE BACKYARD WILDBIRD AND NATURE STORE HAS MOVED
We are open at our new location
6314 METRAL DRIVE
--one block south of our present location--
(next to Arbutus Music)

Good Birding!
Neil Robins
Nanaimo
British Columbia
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