Hi All After what seems like the dullest past two months, today in Cowichan Bay our first returning shorebirds. A small group of peeps which looked like mostly...
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Carlo Pavan
crazy_birder@...
Jul 7, 2000 4:20 am
Hello Derrick and Van Isle Birders, Today Guy Monty and I went to the Englishman River Estuary and we found 4 Semipalmated Sandpipers, about 25-30 Least...
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Carlo Pavan
crazy_birder@...
Jul 7, 2000 4:40 am
Hi Again Everyone, Sorry about this but I forgot to tell you where Nathan saw his Whimbrel and such. It was out at Oyster Bay near Campbell River. -Carlo...
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bartlett
cpbartle@...
Jul 11, 2000 5:35 pm
Has anyone seen or heard of the bulluck's orioles in the last week? It was great to here that there were young but everyone i have talk to have not seen the...
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w_tanager@...
Jul 13, 2000 10:41 pm
Hello birders, As Carlo mentioned I've been working/shorebirding up at Oyster Bay lately. Currently there are 3-WHIM, 6-BBPL, 15-WESA, 10-LESA, and often...
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Carlo Pavan
crazy_birder@...
Jul 14, 2000 6:41 pm
Hello Van Isle Birders! Yesterday morning Dr. John Brighton and I went birding at the Nanoose Cr Estuary near the petro-can at Northwest Bay Rd. This is, I ...
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Derrick Marven
marven@...
Jul 15, 2000 2:47 am
Hi all Well i feel sorry for poor old Carlo, this young college kid who should be working harder in Colin's shop instead of being out in a boat. Not to offend...
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Sandy McRuer
smcruer@...
Jul 15, 2000 3:37 am
Over the years I have recieved several reports of Cassin's Finches in the Alberni Valley. Tonight I am dealing with one. All of the reports have been from...
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Carlo Pavan
crazy_birder@...
Jul 15, 2000 4:49 am
Hi Sandy et al, About the Cassin's Finches, a man named Peter VanKerkoele from down here has claimed for years that there were Cassin's Finches at the Nanaimo...
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w_tanager@...
Jul 15, 2000 5:46 am
Hi Sandy and everyone else, The only reports of CAFI on the N. Island that I'm aware of is from Comox. This was on June 23, 1940, and the bird was apparently ...
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Derrick Marven
marven@...
Jul 16, 2000 12:11 am
Well finally the weekends here and no work did i say no work!!! Started the day in the Timbercrest Area of Somenos Marsh cutting Broom for 3 hrs but the birds...
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Neil Robins
nmrobins@...
Jul 16, 2000 3:06 am
Greetings, Marilynne and I went out with Guy, Donna, Kim and Kent of the Nanaimo Field Naturlist's on their Butterfly walk to Harwood Plains today. Saw lots of...
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Sandy McRuer
smcruer@...
Jul 17, 2000 3:07 am
As opposed to all you folks, instead of checcking out the shorlines and low elevations I went up. Several of us went up to Grassy Mountain. This is a rare...
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Nathan Hentze
w_tanager@...
Jul 18, 2000 1:10 am
Hi all, I spent today showing Carlo Pavan various places to go birding in the Comox Valley. We started off up Mt. Washington at Paradise Meadows. What a...
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Sandy McRuer
smcruer@...
Jul 18, 2000 4:31 am
A plague on four letter codes and all who use them! There is an interesting discussion on the Vancouver E-group about the use of four letter codes. Carlo, I...
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Derrick Marven
marven@...
Jul 19, 2000 2:52 am
Hi Guys Went for a walk down the Cowichan Bay Dock Road, i know it was a work day, but the Malahat was closed all day and although i was only going into Duncan...
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guylmonty@...
Jul 19, 2000 11:48 pm
Hello Sandy, I thought I would throw my two cents worth onto the sizable pile left by the young and way too smug "crazy birder". There have been many, many,...
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Derrick Marven
marven@...
Jul 20, 2000 2:19 am
Hi guys I don't know if any of you recieve Birders Journal, if so there's a great article by Al Jaramillo and Dave Beadle on female Cassin's in the December...
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Carlo Pavan
crazy_birder@...
Jul 20, 2000 4:31 am
Hello All, I would like to appologize for apparently trying to persuade all of you to believe that anyone is not a credible birder. I should not have included...
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Guy Monty
guylmonty@...
Jul 21, 2000 12:34 am
Geez Carlo, if I made you feel that bad, why don't you take a whack at me and tell everybody about the BHGU in Oyster Bay last summer? Just remember, sooner or...
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Carlo Pavan
crazy_birder@...
Jul 21, 2000 5:10 am
Hello Van Isle Birders! I hope everyone is enjoying this great weather we are having! I certainly have been. Guy and I were out birding today at Buttertubs ...
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Guy Monty
guylmonty@...
Jul 21, 2000 5:56 am
Hi all, Carlo neglected to mention the "sighting" of the day. Probably because it wasn't a bird! At Jinglepot Marsh, across from Buttertubs, we had a good look...
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Calvin Gehlen
geek-boy@...
Jul 21, 2000 7:35 am
Hello All, I thought I'd be the first on the island group to post a rare bird photo. It is a SAGE SPARROW taken by Jo Ann MacKenzie in February '98. ...
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Neil Robins
nmrobins@...
Jul 21, 2000 11:02 pm
Hi island birder's, On Wednesday evening just after seven pm, Marilynne and I went for a walk at Buttertubs, just after we entered the path from Bowen Rd. we...
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Nathan Hentze
w_tanager@...
Jul 22, 2000 4:18 am
Hi all, Recently I had 3 juv. crows near my yard. Talk about a misfortunate group of young. One of the 3 had a broken foot and could barely perch on it. One...
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Guy Monty
guylmonty@...
Jul 22, 2000 8:56 am
Nathan, could a bill deformity of that type have anything to do with the amount of Lucky Beer that is consumed in the Cumberland area?...
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Nathan Hentze
w_tanager@...
Jul 22, 2000 6:18 pm
Well, I don't know if the alcohol could have been responsible for the bill deformity, but as for the one that was wobbling around on one foot... Nathan Hentze ...
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Derrick Marven
marven@...
Jul 23, 2000 12:52 am
Hi Guys Just got a report that a Manx Shearwater was seen this morning from the Coho ferry on the Washington State side by Paul Lehman leading i believe a...
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Rela Cripps
rela@...
Jul 23, 2000 3:59 am
Hi All: Could someone possibly out there tell me of a good field guide to butterflies as I am interested in them but don't have a clue what to look for? Thanks...
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D Marven
marven@...
Jul 23, 2000 4:34 am
Hi Rela There are several books available most are very good ,but none are specific for this area i.e. Vancouver Island. If you can wait till the end of the...
