[bcbirdingvanisland] Victoria RBA, Friday, February 3
Subject: [bcbirdingvanisland] Victoria RBA, Friday, February 3
From: Daniel Bryant
Date: Fri, Feb 3, 2012, 12:33 PM
RBA - 250-704-2555
* British Columbia
* Greater Victoria and Southern Vancouver Is.
* February 3, 2012
* BCVI120203
-Transcript
This is the Victoria Natural History Society's Bird Alert for Friday, February 3, 10:30 am update. To report sightings of interest, please call 250-704-2555 and leave your name, message and phone number. To summon those who can confirm a rare bird, please call Rick Schortinghuis at 250-885-2454.
ANNOUNCEMENT:
The VNHS Saturday morning birding destination this week is the Oak Bay and Victoria waterfront. Meet at the Cattle Point parking lot at 8 am. All are welcome, but no pets, please.
RARE BIRD ALERTS:
The RUSTY BLACKBIRD continues in the Martindale area, having been seen most recently at the pig farm on Lochside Drive on Saturday, January 28. Another was seen at a farm in the 4100 block of Granville Avenue on Monday, January 30. Both birds were with flocks of other blackbirds.
The exotic sparrows continue at Panama Flats, with the AMERICAN TREE SPARROW seen most recently on Monday, January 30. A SWAMP SPARROW was heard south of the shed on Friday, January 27. Also present at least since Thursday, January 26, has been a COMMON TEAL.
A SNOW GOOSE was with thirty GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE on William Head Road near Taylor Road on Saturday, January 28. Another SNOW GOOSE, or perhaps the same bird, was with CANADA GEESE on the Saanich Fairgrounds more recently.
OTHER FEATURED BIRDS:
CEDAR WAXWING, TURKEY VULTURE, EVENING GROSBEAK, EARED GREBE, AMERICAN KESTREL, AMERICAN BITTERN, RING-BILLED GULL, SNOW BUNTING
Thursday, February 2:
Among birds at Swan Lake were 105 COMMON MERGANSERS, four RUDDY DUCKS, six CEDAR WAXWINGS, and a YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER.
At least one TURKEY VULTURE was over the Interurban campus of Camosun College, near Viaduct Flats.
A RED-THROATED LOON was on Langford Lake.
Forty-four EVENING GROSBEAKS were near the hatchery on Corfield Road in Duncan.
Three EURASIAN WIGEONS were at Roberts Bay in Sidney.
Tuesday, January 31:
Tuesday Group birders found a NORTHERN SHRIKE at Viaduct Flats and an EARED GREBE off of Mt. Douglas Beach. Two grebes had been seen there on Monday.
Monday, January 30:
A MERLIN of the Taiga subspecies was at the gate of Royal Roads University. A similar bird was reported at the Cedar Hill Golf Club on Wednesday, January 25.
An AMERICAN KESTREL continues in the area of Wallace Drive and Newman Road. Another was seen north of the Victoria Airport on Sunday, January 29.
Sunday, January 29:
The AMERICAN BITTERN was at Swan Lake, having gone unreported for the past month.
Single EURASIAN WIGEONS were at Willows Beach in Oak Bay and Roberts Bay in Sidney.
Numbers of ANCIENT MURRELETS were off Glencoe Cove and Ten-mile Point, with three MARBLED MURRELETS also at the latter location.
There were fifty-six GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE on the Saanich Fairgrounds and a RING-BILLED GULL at the pig farm on Lochside Drive in the Martindale area.
The SNOW BUNTING was reported again from Saanichton Spit.
A WHITE-THROATED SPARROW was near the water end of Cherry Point Road south of Duncan.
Saturday, January 28:
About a dozen AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES were on the Lansdowne campus of Camosun College.
Three WESTERN MEADOWLARKS, one or two EURASIAN WIGEON, and a female CANVASBACK were at Panama Flats.
RUDDY DUCKS and CANVASBACKS were off Hamsterly Beach at Elk Lake.
Friday, January 27:
An EARED GREBE was on Cordova Bay off McMorran's.
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