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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: thebackyard@shaw.ca
Website: www.thebirdstore.ca

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

Saturday September 02, 2006:
"RARE BIRD ALERT"
A SNOWY OWL was spotted flying across highway 19a near Country Club Mall in Nanaimo.
STELLER'S JAYS were seen along Telegraph Terrace in Nanaimo.
A PACIFIC LOON was spotted off shore at San Pariel in Parksville.

Friday September 01:
A PEREGRINE FALCON was seen being mobbed by a pair of COMMON RAVENS
at Fairwinds in Nanoose Bay.
An OSPREY was seen at Neck Point Park in Nanaimo.

Wednesday August 30:
A large flock of BUSHTITS, STELLAR'S JAYS, DOWNY WOODPECKERS and CEDAR WAXWINGS were seen just off Corfield Road in Parksville
Two HORNED GREBES, one PELAGIC COMORANT, 30 GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 40 MALLARDS, sixteen SURF and WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, four GREAT BLUE HERON. six KILLDEER and four AMERICAN PIPITS were seen at Nanoose Bay just back of the Church Camp.

Tuesday August 29:
Eighteen BAND-TAILED PIGEONS are visiting feeders in the 100 block of Rainbow Crescent in Nanaimo.
A NORTHERN GOSHAWK was sighted at the Deerwood Retirement Community off Biggs Road in Nanaimo.

Sunday August 27:
A BAIRD'S SANDPIPER was spotted at the Englishman River Estuary in Parksville.
A FRANKLIN'S GULL and about 150 BONAPARTE'S GULLS were seen in the water close to shore at Rathtravor Provincial Park.
The Sunday Bird Walk went to Buttertubs Marsh fifteen birders found the following thirty-six species:
Turkey Vulture
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Hooded Merganser
Pied-billed Grebe
Wood Duck
Osprey
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Barn Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Willow Flycatcher
Warbling Vireo
California Quail
Rock Pigeon
Common Raven
Steller's Jay
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Bewick's Wren
Marsh Wren
Swainson's Thrush
Cedar Waxwing
Orange-crowned Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Spotted Towhee
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Friday August 25:
An OSPREY was seen perched high up in a tall Fir Tree just off 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: thebackyard@shaw.ca
www.thebirdstore.ca
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The Nanoose Naturalists
Monthly Meeting
Thursday, September 14 @ 7:00 pm
Nanoose Library,
Nanoose Bay
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Arrowsmith Naturalists
Monthly Meeting,
Joe Crichton, (Birdwatching Tours) will give a slide presentation on
"The Birds of Costa Rica".
Monday, September 25 @ 7:30 pm.
Springwood School,
Parksville
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Nanaimo Field Naturalists
Monthly Meeting
Wednesday, September 27 @ 7:30 PM,
Bowen Park Activity Centre,
Nanaimo.
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There will be no Sunday Bird Walk on September 03, 2006
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The Sunday Bird Walk on September 10 will be going to Columbia Beach in French Creek.
Meet at the Backyard Wildbird Store at 8:30 am or at the empty lot on Admiral Tryon Blvd. at about 9:00 am.
Turn off highway 19a just north of the bridge over French Creek onto Columbia go to the "T" intersection at Admiral Tryon Blvd. turn right for about 100 meters and park in the empty lot on the left, near the water.
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Good Birding!
Neil Robins
Nanaimo
British Columbia