Keep up the Good fight, Derek. Sandy ... From: D Marven To: bcbirdingvanisland ; bcintbird ; bcvanbirds ; tweeter Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 11:19 AM ...
Hi Islanders, The area between Fanny Bay and Deep Bay had a whole bunch of two things today. Rain and wind. Lots of birds too, but really hard to see, as the...
Everyone! Yes... much to many of your chagrin I am still alive. I tell ya, the last time I saw anything other than a gull, crow or starling was WAY too long...
Hi Carlo Know wonder your a crazy_birder, rain, normal life, crazyness of birding. Welcome back Carlo your wierd sense of humour has been missed. Cheers ...
Sandy and Island Birders, The 5 dowitchers of "undetermined species" at Port Alberni on October 28 were almost certainly Long-billed Dowitchers. In the...
Oh Sandy... will there ever be a day when I know what on earth you are talking about? Correction: Will there ever be a day when I actually WANT to know what on...
Hi islanders, Today at Deep Bay, in addition to calm weather and sunshine, there were two Rock Sandpipers with Black Turnstones near the first parking spot on...
Hi Islanders, Surveyed the coast from Gartley Pt. to Buckley Bay today, including Denman Island. The juvenile Yellow-billed Loon was in the same spot at the...
It was a great day to be out. Brilliant sunshine all afternoon. I went to the Mill effluent lagoons to see if the Redhead was still there. It was but the flock...
snip ... commemorating the acquisition of the Somas Estuary by Nature Trust Canada with funds from The Pacific Salmon Foundation, Ducks Unlimited. Any threat...
Hey folks, While I think it's great that the Nature trust got involved over there, don't get too complacent Sandy. I'd remind you that the Nature Trust owns...
Hi again, Steve Bailley phoned in a report of a Rock Sandpiper with Black Turnstones at Neck Point in Nanaimo today. Looks like it's shaping up to be a great...
Thank God Carlo. I thought youd gone missing and I suspected WAYNE WEBBER and Doug Brown of being in on your disappearance. phew. btw, im in film school now...
Hi birders, This morning I saw a single Brant at the Nanaimo River Estuary. Sadly, this is the first time that I have seen this species outside of spring...
Hi Birders and others Just recently a well known bird photographer posted this message to Bird-Pix group, i think it is well worth taking note, especially...
Hey folks, As somebody who shoots a fair amount of slide film, I thought I better check into this. My younger (and obviously smarter) brother is a postmaster...
Hi Twitchers Thanks to Guy and is brother for their input, but i think you should take notice of these facts from Fuji: To keep this on a birding thread i had...
Hi Islanders, At 14:35 today, at Base Flat, (Tsable River Estuary) I saw what I beleive was a basic pl. "japonicus" American Pipit. The bird was in the NW...
We were at the Morden Colliery today and saw 8 male and 2 female mergansers, 2 bald eagles and a lone dipper with LOTS of spawning coho! Nice walk down an...
Hi Donna, That park is truly one of Nanaimo's hidden gems. I lived here four years before I even heard a reference to it. For such a beautiful area, with such...
Hey all you birders! The eagles are returning for a salmon feeding frenzy at the Little Qualicum River. Traveling north on the Island Hwy, past Qualicum...
Birders, Christmas Bird Count Data are available on the Internet at the BirdSource website ( http://birdsource.tc.cornell.edu/cbcdata ). You can get a tabular...
Birders, I am forwarding the attached message for Adrian Dorst, who is apparently unable to send messages to the "Island Birders" group. At any rate, a...
Hi Birder's Just got back from doing a couple of waterfowl surveys, one at Cherry Point, where it was very quite and the other at Quamichan Lake where there...
Hey all, Sorry for the late post, but on Saturday Nov. 10 I found a Cattle Egret in the fields just north of the Tsable River bridge. These fields are the...
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Nov 15, 2001 1:25 am
Hi All, Arrived home from work a bit before 4:00 on a soggy west coast day, just grabbed a coffee, staring blankly at the feeder, when boink, in popped a ...
Hi Twitchers Supposedly there is a male Smew been seen at the Powel River B.C.Ferry Terminal north of Comox? possible called the Little River Terminal?. The...
The male drake Smew was seen by Pierre Geoffray from the Little River terminal north of Comox on the way to Powell River. He saw the bird from the ferry just ...
