Hi Birders Just got a call From David Allinson that at 1:30 pm a juvenile White-rumped Sandpiper was seen at Clover Point with 2 Bairds Sandpipers, the birds...
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Carlo Pavan
crazy_birder@...
Sep 2, 2000 7:20 am
Hello Island Birders, After speaking to Adrian Dorst here is the news: The rare bird alert for the Ruff is over, it left on Wednesday the 30th. The Solitary...
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Derrick Marven
marven@...
Sep 3, 2000 1:35 am
Hi guys & gals It was a very quite down here in the metropolis of Duncan, the sewage lagoons held the same species as yesterday, Cowichan Bay had a couple of...
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Rela Cripps
rela@...
Sep 3, 2000 5:12 am
Hi All: Today Brian & I walked the pipeline to the sewer lagoon. A flock of 25 Sandhill Cranes flew over head and kept right on going. Good size flocks of...
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Sandy McRuer
smcruer@...
Sep 4, 2000 2:32 am
Got kindopf a late start today. But was birding there by 9:30AM. Got a Lincoln's Sparrow right off the bat. Then a crowd of Bushtits buzzed by. With them were...
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Rela Cripps
rela@...
Sep 4, 2000 5:44 am
Hi All Today Brian & I decided to bird the garbage dump leachate pond for shorebirds. The pond, now almost completely filled with vegetation, was a complete...
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Derrick Marven
marven@...
Sep 4, 2000 3:28 pm
Hi Birders 8:20 Monday morning just got a call from Guy Monti there is a Ruff at the Nanaimo River Estuary, it's in the field on the right hand side just as...
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Nathan Hentze
w_tanager@...
Sep 4, 2000 4:17 pm
Hi all, I just got back from a 3 day birding trip to W. Washington. Shorebirding was pretty good, with most the common birds (except not any BB Plover) and a...
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Carlo Pavan
crazy_birder@...
Sep 4, 2000 10:40 pm
Hello Birders! Well we've got a rush of birds around here! Three Ruff [two Ruff (male) and a Reeve(female)] two Stilt Sandpipers, a Sharp-tailed Sandpiper a...
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Carlo Pavan
crazy_birder@...
Sep 4, 2000 10:55 pm
I forgot to mention that Guy Monty was the birder who found all of these additional rarities to his formerly posted Ruff. I hope I can get a chance to see all...
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Derrick Marven
marven@...
Sep 4, 2000 11:18 pm
Hi Birders Is'nt it always the way you make some plans to lead an out of town birder around and then comes a phone call from Guy in Nanaimo, the problem was...
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Carlo Pavan
crazy_birder@...
Sep 5, 2000 1:59 am
I just got in from the Estuary. The tide was way the hell out and I would imagine the Ruff was hanging out there or was still over at the east end of the...
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bartlett
cpbartle@...
Sep 6, 2000 8:05 pm
Hello everyone here is the latest fron the N.B.A. sorry it was not sent sooner but just as we updated it something else was reported. It was a great weekend....
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Nathan Hentze
w_tanager@...
Sep 7, 2000 4:29 am
I just heard that a Bank Swallow was seen on Monday? on our Migration count near the Courtenay Estuary. I haven't yet talked to the actual observers, but if...
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Nathan Hentze
w_tanager@...
Sep 8, 2000 5:24 am
Howdy, I've just heard of yet another bird that somehow I never found out about until tonight. Before I tell you about that just let me say that I talked to...
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Derrick Marven
marven@...
Sep 9, 2000 12:01 am
Hi Vanisle twitchers Today i was confined to barracks doing paperwork, but every now and again one has to stretch ones legs, so out to the front garden i went ...
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Derrick Marven
marven@...
Sep 11, 2000 5:01 am
Hi Birders Today i did my first Waterbird survey of the fall, it really was quite uneventfull, not much was out on Juan De Fuca Strait, best bird of the day...
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Calvin Gehlen
geek-boy@...
Sep 15, 2000 4:59 am
Hello All, As some of you know, today we had the misfortune of having a virus loose in one of the BC birding eGroups (WKBirds). Because so many of us belong to...
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RWorona
rworona@...
Sep 17, 2000 6:34 am
Last weekend at Amphitrite Point, Ucluelet the weather was too nice, but I did see a Pink-footed Shearwater (September 9) and a Tufted Puffin (September 10)....
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Sandy McRuer
smcruer@...
Sep 17, 2000 9:27 pm
I haven't been out birding much lately. I've been 'shrooming quite a bit, but now the price has dropped so low it sin't worth going out. Anyway, yesterday I...
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bartlett
cpbartle@...
Sep 19, 2000 7:08 pm
Hello all here is the latest from the N.B.A. Good birding, Colin Bartlett. Welcome to the Nanaimo Bird Alert Sponsored by The Backyard Wildbird and Nature...
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Brian Slater
bslater@...
Sep 21, 2000 3:49 am
Pulling into the gravel lot in front of my res. about 7:00 p.m. tonight, noted 2 plovers foraging in a grassy /weedy area. Probably those pesky Killdeer that...
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Carlo Pavan
crazy_birder@...
Sep 24, 2000 3:37 am
Hello Van Isle Birders! An absolutely amazing day was had by all on the pelagic trip out of Ucluelet today! The weather was unbelievable, the birds were ...
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Sandy McRuer
smcruer@...
Sep 25, 2000 2:45 am
Hi folks: I'm glad Carlito had a go day birding. I does sound pretty spectacular. I gotta say. I did my first Waterbird survey of the day. I haven't compiled...
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Carlo Pavan
crazy_birder@...
Sep 26, 2000 1:14 am
Hello All, Today Guy Monty and I went birding around Nanaimo. We didn't get started until about 10:15am but that didn't hold us back in the tally of rarities....
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Nathan Hentze
w_tanager@...
Sep 26, 2000 2:27 am
... of ... You just couldn't let it alone could you Carlo. You already had a great day on Sat. on your pelagic. Now to top it off you deliberately find a...
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Carlo Pavan
crazy_birder@...
Sep 27, 2000 5:07 pm
Yesterday on my way to the bus stop for school I noticed that there were about 20-30 American Pipits flying about the lawns of some of the houses down the...
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Nathan Hentze
w_tanager@...
Sep 28, 2000 6:14 am
Hi all, It really is amazing what you can find in a subdivision if you just open your eyes a little bit. Over the years I've found many interesting species...
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Rela Cripps
rela@...
Oct 2, 2000 3:35 am
Hi All, First stop was the leachate pond behind the dump. The only bird of interest was a Common Snipe, with Lincoln Sparrows still in good numbers. Next...
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bartlett
cpbartle@...
Oct 2, 2000 10:59 pm
Here is the latest from the N.B.A. Good birding Colin Bartlett. Welcome to the Nanaimo Bird Alert Sponsored by The Backyard Wildbird and Nature store located...
