Neil Robins
Well-known member
Sunday Bird Walk, September 29, 2002 Hemer Provincial Park, Cedar.
Weather: Mostly cloudy, calm winds, about 10ºC.
Observers: Sunday birders (seventeen of us, including two newcomers)
Number of Species: 38
Highlights: Two male Hooded Mergansers courting two females--dancing on the water and bobbing their heads up and down. The big surprise was a lone female Surf Scoter on Holden Lake.
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Green-winged Teal
Surf Scoter
Hooded Merganser
Red-tailed Hawk
California Quail
Virginia Rail
American Coot
Common Snipe
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Steller's Jay
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
Varied Thrush
American Robin
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Sunday bird walks sponsered by
THE BACKYARD WILDBIRD & NATURE STORE
6-6404 Metral Drive Nanaimo
390-3669, 1-888-249-4145
Good Birding
Neil Robins
Nanaimo
Canada
(ps I have just returned from a four week vacation it's good to be back home..Neil)
:t:
Weather: Mostly cloudy, calm winds, about 10ºC.
Observers: Sunday birders (seventeen of us, including two newcomers)
Number of Species: 38
Highlights: Two male Hooded Mergansers courting two females--dancing on the water and bobbing their heads up and down. The big surprise was a lone female Surf Scoter on Holden Lake.
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Green-winged Teal
Surf Scoter
Hooded Merganser
Red-tailed Hawk
California Quail
Virginia Rail
American Coot
Common Snipe
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Steller's Jay
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
Varied Thrush
American Robin
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Sunday bird walks sponsered by
THE BACKYARD WILDBIRD & NATURE STORE
6-6404 Metral Drive Nanaimo
390-3669, 1-888-249-4145
Good Birding
Neil Robins
Nanaimo
Canada
(ps I have just returned from a four week vacation it's good to be back home..Neil)
:t:
