Hi all, On thursday, I found a Swamp Sparrow on old Center Rd. in Nanaimo, The bird was in a hawthorn, canary-grass thicket about 350 meters south of the...
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Derrick Marven
marven@...
Dec 3, 2000 2:54 am
Hi Birders The Catbird was still coming to the garden in Cow-Bay and a adult Golden Eagle was still flying over Richard's Trail. An American Kestrel was on...
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Nathan Hentze
w_tanager@...
Dec 3, 2000 5:45 pm
Hi all, I just got back from a very brief trip to Vancouver. On saturday I went out birding with Rick Toochin. We met at Iona and I was hoping to see one of...
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D Marven
marven@...
Dec 5, 2000 6:17 am
Hi Derrick, My buddy Rob Worona was on the West Coast yesterday and found some dam nice birds! At the Ucluelet Sewage Ponds he found an immature CLAY-COLORED...
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Guy Monty
guylmonty@...
Dec 6, 2000 11:48 pm
Hi all, This morning I wen't down to Oar Rd. in Lantzville. I was just about to turn around and go home because it was so foggy, but I decided to give it a...
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Guy Monty
guylmonty@...
Dec 6, 2000 11:54 pm
Hi all, Today, near the ice arena in downtown Parksville, the Juv. Snow Goose that has been there since October was with a new friend. I glanced out my window...
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Terry Flamand
tflamand@...
Dec 6, 2000 11:59 pm
... Hmmm,... 'Sounds like a Tamron 90mm f2.5 Macro lens would have done the trick, huh guy? ;) (wink) -- Terry B. Flamand (Nanaimo, B.C. Canada) ...
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Terry Flamand
tflamand@...
Dec 7, 2000 12:02 am
... Hmmm,.. me thinks you should get your car's exhaust leak checked right away, Guy,. ;) (wink again,..),.. 'envious, that I was stuck in my shop dealing...
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WAYNE WEBER
wayne_weber@...
Dec 7, 2000 6:20 am
Birders, Every year, BC Field Ornithologists (BCFO) includes a list of BC Christmas Bird Counts in their December newsletter, along with the dates and the...
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Sandy McRuer
smcruer@...
Dec 11, 2000 1:25 am
Hello everyone: What a fine weekend! I couldn't help but abandon all my good intentions to Christmas shop yesterday and go birding. I had heard from a couple...
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D Marven
marven@...
Dec 11, 2000 1:49 am
Hi Sandy In a word "AUTOFOCUS"...
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rworona@...
Dec 11, 2000 4:22 am
Sorry for the late posting. Last Sunday, December 3, I did a quick trip to Ucluelet and Tofino. The highlights of what I saw are: One imm. Northern Goshawk,...
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Guy Monty
guylmonty@...
Dec 13, 2000 10:39 pm
Hi all, I just ran into Dale Whitney. He had some info that I thought might be of interest to those counting birds in Courteney. He saw a Whimbrel at the base...
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Derrick Marven
marven@...
Dec 14, 2000 5:10 pm
Hi Birders Well things are building up for the xmas counts I've been out looking for and strays that are hanging around, the Golden Eagle on Richards Trail is...
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Carlo Pavan
crazy_birder@...
Dec 14, 2000 10:19 pm
Holy Crow! We've got snow here! Not much yet but it doesn't seem to be letting up any! Maybe it will bring in a few birds for the count. There was a report of...
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D Marven
marven@...
Dec 14, 2000 10:31 pm
Hi Carlo Will someone please confirm this record as it would be the first confirmed record for Vancouver Island. Most times when this species is reported it...
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D Marven
marven@...
Dec 15, 2000 4:19 am
Hi Birders I have been doing a little digging and it seems that information is not so hard to come by, if you talk to the right people and read the right...
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D Marven
marven@...
Dec 15, 2000 11:11 pm
Hi Birders Well by now i guess everyone knows we had a dumping of snow here in Duncan, but unlike most places we had no wind last night, just dead calm. Anyhow...
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Guy Monty
guylmonty@...
Dec 15, 2000 11:31 pm
Hi Derrick and everybody else, Well, I'll tell you where Mr. Monty is, he's flat on his back weathering some horrific American virus that he picked up from his...
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Guy Monty
guylmonty@...
Dec 15, 2000 11:40 pm
Hi again, Good show Derrick, I'm not surprised about that Anna's. They seem to have doubled their range in Nanaimo this year, which must mean that it was a...
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Guy Monty
guylmonty@...
Dec 15, 2000 11:56 pm
Hi Birders, I have a correction to make on the location of the YBLO, which I reported as being seen at Goose Spit. I apparently wasn't listening to Dale,...
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D Marven
marven@...
Dec 16, 2000 12:05 am
Hi Guy And to think i spent 2 days camped out at Goose Spit looking for it. DAH!!!! Derrick...
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bartlett's
cpbartle@...
Dec 18, 2000 7:35 am
hello all i have taken a few moments off from my busy sched during December with the store and my woodworking, to check the hundreds of emails. A friend of...
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Guy Monty
guylmonty@...
Dec 20, 2000 10:50 pm
Hi all, A Townsend's Solitaire was seen at the corner of Lost Lake and Hilquenbran, on Nanaimo's north slope today. It was happily munching away on arbutus...
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D Marven
marven@...
Dec 21, 2000 8:50 pm
Hi Birders If you are going to Whistler this weekend, i have it on good authority that a NHOW was seen sitting on top of a tree on the main road through town...
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D Marven
marven@...
Dec 21, 2000 9:22 pm
Hi Birders as none of the embarrased birders from Victoria have posted their results from December 16th, here's what happened. well they blamed the weather for...
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Betty Lunam
lunbet@...
Dec 22, 2000 1:12 am
The Comox Valley Nats. will be counting on Saturday the 23 rd. I'm afraid we won't be in a position to kick butts as our army of birders will be greatly...
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David Allinson
goshawk@...
Dec 22, 2000 5:42 am
Just a brief update to Derrick's comments on the Northern Fulmar yours truly found off Tower Point section of Witty's Lagoon during Victoria's monsoon CBC on...
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Carlo Pavan
crazy_birder@...
Dec 22, 2000 6:57 am
I'd be watching out for Ladner too! -Carlo ... for...
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David Allinson
goshawk@...
Dec 22, 2000 7:32 am
I was of course speaking somewhat tongue in cheek about 1-2-3 placement on CBC tallies, but am ever hopeful for Duncan and Sooke CBC's. You know..."power of...
