RBA * British Columbia * Greater Victoria and Southern Vancouver Is. * July 31, 2008 * BCVI060608 - Transcript Hi birders! This is the Victoria Natural History...
The AOU checklist committee has released its latest supplement to its 'Check-list of North American Birds' this week...the most significant change affecting us...
Hi birders, Marilynne and I went to the first pond along Morningstar Drive off of Highway 19A. Near the pumphouse we had a Black Swift fly over our heads...
I was in Gold River today, Saturday, Aug 2. Driving down the road to the Uchuck III wharf I had a Broad-winged Hawk fly across the road in front of the car....
Hi birders, The Sunday Bird Walk went to Neck Point Park in Nanaimo. Among the highlights were four sightings of Great Horned Owls perched in tall trees. We...
The Backyard Wildbird & Nature Store Nanaimo Bird Alert To report your sightings phone the Store at 250-390-3669 e-mail us at thebackyard@... call the Bird...
Coming back from Mt Washington yesterday their were at least a dozen nighthawks hawking low over the Petrocan garage in Nanoose at about 5pm in the glorious...
Hi birders, I have a late report of a possible Black and White Warbler near the Beaver Ponds at Morrell Wildlife Sanctuary in Nanaimo on Monday, August 04,...
Thanks Rick, The birds are everywhere. I can't wait to get out birding tomorrow. We are going to the Englishman River Estuary, it will be fun. Cheers Neil...
Hi biders, The Sunday Bird Walk went to the Englishman River Estuary, Plummer Road side in Parksville, the highlights included, a flock of Black Swifts and...
The Backyard Wildbird & Nature Store Nanaimo Bird Alert To report your sightings phone the Store at 250-390-3669 e-mail us at thebackyard@... call the Bird...
Hi birders, I stopped at French Creek on the Columbia Beach side at low tide, I had great close views of five Least Sandpipers, eight Western Sandpipers, one...
Hi all Thanks to those who replied to my earlier posting on birding in the Vancouver area for pelagic and other species. This is a reminder that, as a result...
Hi birders, John Purves just called, he saw three Heermanns' Gulls and a Ring-billed in with the California and Glaucous-winged Gulls at Columbia Beach. Good...
Hi birders, We had a small flock of Purple Martins singing and dancing up in the sky above our place yesterday, in the 100 block of Meridian Way in Parksville....
RBA * British Columbia * Greater Victoria and Southern Vancouver Is. * August 14, 2008 * BCVI060608 - Transcript Hi birders! This is the Victoria Natural...
Hi birders, The Sunday Bird Walk went to Columbia Beach, at French Creek. Highlights included the sighting of eight Heermann's Gulls, California Gulls,...
The Backyard Wildbird & Nature Store Nanaimo Bird Alert To report your sightings phone the Store at 250-390-3669 e-mail us at thebackyard@... call the Bird...
Hello all, I was camping in Pacific Rim last week for 4 days and had a few interesting sightings. Land birding was extremely slow, except for the usual common...
Neil Robins and I drove over to Port Renfrew today (Monday, Aug 18) and then on to Botanical Beach. We had just arrived at our viewing point and had not even...
Hi birders, Boy seening this bird showed me that to see birds the place to be is out in the field! Roger Taylor and I had just arrived at the viewing spot and...
That is absolutely awesome, Rick. It sounds like Botanical Beach should be checked out tomorrow. I am thinking about it. Will decide tomorrow. -- Roger...
Nice seeing those nighthawks -- and the shearwaters as well! Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of seeing about 50 nighthawks coursing in the sky above Chute...
RBA * British Columbia * Greater Victoria and Southern Vancouver Is. * August 22, 2008 * BCVI060608 - Transcript Hi birders! This is the Victoria Natural...
Hi birders, We have just received a report of a Crested Caracra at Fort Fraser on the Yellowhead Highway,west of Prince George. The bird was following a farmer...
Hi birders, This bird was seen on Monday the eighteen of August,2008. not on August 22, 2008 This Crested Caracara was also photographed and identified as...
6 Brown Pelicans (1 ad and 5 immatures) were flying east-northeast offshore of the Tower Point section of Witty's Lagoon Regional Park in Metchosin this...
Hi Rick, I had over 60 Common Nighthawks over the Viaduct Flats area a week ago. It is certainly a nice evening sight to see them cruising overhead! I've had...
My sons, Geoffrey, Jean-Jean and I, David Newell, were at Witty's Lagoon on Saturday, August 23 and Geoffrey spotted a single Semipalmated Sandpiper in a group...
Hi birders, The Sunday Bird Walk went to Holden Creek in the mud and rain. Among the highlights were the sighting of several flocks of Long-billed Dowitchers,...