VANCOUVER and Fraser Valley

To report rare birds or sightings of interest in the Vancouver area and to submit pictures please email Jeremiah Kennedy at jeremiah.kennedy@telus.net. To report rare birds or sightings of interest for the Fraser Valley  (East of, and including, Abbotsford) and to submit pictures please email Chris at cmcdonald21@hotmail.com. or the Vancouver RBA phone number (Run by Nature Vancouver):(604) 737-3074If you are interested in taking part in birding discussions, and are looking for other birding information for the Vancouver area, please consider joining the VANBCbirds group, at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vanbcbirds/ and for discussions on birds from the Upper Fraser Valley click Here

Veery 
Location: Burnaby Lake 1km west of Piper Spit along trail.
Reported: May 19 (Hector ?)

Photo: Hector

Black-chinned Hummingbird
Location: Agassiz (Private Residence)
Reported: May 21 (Murray Brown)



Valley Birds (Rick Toochin) May 22
Outside Hope:
1- Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2nd year male
Hope Airport:
1- Clay-colored Sparrow
1- Yellow-headed Blackbird-female
1- Black-chinned Hummingbird-male
Harrison Lake Area:
1 -Calliope Hummingbird - male
Aggasiz Area:
1- Calliope Hummingbird - male

Lark Sparrow
Location: Iona Island (Richmond)-- First spotted at the Parking lot and was later relocated at the sewage ponds in the afternoon.
Reported: May 20 (Mike Boyd)
Other birds of interest at this location on the same day were Chipping Sparrow, a Northern ShovellerXBlue-winged Teal Hybrid (male) and a Western Kingbird

Black-chinned Hummingbird (2)
Location: Private property (Along Hope Airport)
Reported: May 15-17 (Jack Delair)

Photo: Rick Toochin

Glaucous Gull
Location: Evans Rd (Chilliwack)
Reported: May 16 ( Gord, Jamie and Katie Gadsden)

American Avocet (3)
Location: Golden Ears Bridge Wetland along Fraser River
Reported: May 16 (Ken Thomson) 

Northern Waterthrush
Location: Iona Beach Regional Park. Woodlot beside outer ponds
Reported: May 16-17 (IIBO)
Same day and location there was a DUSKY FLYCATCHER

Dusky Flycatcher
Location: Queen Elizabeth Park
Reported: May 13 (Liron Gertsman)

Solitary Sandpiper
Location: West pond at Maplewood Conservation Area
Reported: May 14 (Rob Lyske)

Valley Birds (Rick Toochin) May 12
Hope Airport
Black-throated Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow (2)
Golden Eagle
Swainson's Hawk
Whimbrel-Banford Road
Red-necked Phalarope - Banford Road
Red-necked Phalarope - Annis Road

May 17

Hudsonian Godwit- Banford Road

Sage Thrasher
Location: Sewage Lagoons at Iona Beach Regional Park
Reported: May 11 (Paul Levesque et al.)

Black-necked Stilt
Location: East Chilliwack
Reported: May 7 (Janna Maljaars)
For more info click Here

Photo: Rick Toochin

Valley Birding-May 4 (Rick Toochin)
Hermit Warbler- Emory Creek Provincial Park outside of Hope
Lewis's Woodpecker- 1Km south of Yale in a dead tree flycatching
2 Wilson's Phalaropes- Hwy 1 Scrape at Annis Road


Possible Broad-tailed Hummingbird in Tsawwassen
A bird matching the description of a Broad-tailed Hummingbird has been seen and/or heard six to eight times in the last three weeks at a feeder in Tsawwassen. The house is in the neighbourhood near 10th Ave and 52a Street in Tsawwassen, an area filled with feeders and flowering plants. The possibility of seeing (or more likely hearing) the bird in order to confirm it, would be increased with more observers so if people are in the area it may be wise to wander in the neighbourhood for even just a few minutes.  For more information on or to report any sightings of this bird, please contact Jeremiah Kennedy at the email address provided above.


House Wren
Location: Reifel Bird Sanctuary along the middle dike trail.
Reported: May 2 (Dan Tyson)

Golden Eagle
Location: Iona Beach Regional Park, Richmond.
Reported: April 28 (Mike Bailey)

Photo: Mike Bailey

Black Phoebe
Location: At the far end of the slough in Hougen Park, along Cole Road in Abbotsford
Reported: April 28 (Rick Toochin)

Solitary Sandpiper
Location: Bradner Rd, Abbotsford
Reported: April 28 (Chris Buis)

Calliope Hummingbird
Location: Queen Elizabeth Park, in Salmon Berries East of Bowling Green.
Reported: April 28 (Jeremiah Kennedy)

Valley Birds (Rick Toochin) April 26
Along Prairie Central Road -1 SOLITARY SANDPIPER
Red-naped Sapsucker -Outside Hope
April 27
2 Western Kingbirds on Cutler Road
1 Calliope Hummingbird at Hope Airport
1 Bullock's Oriole in Hope

Snowy Owl
Location: Whelpton Rd, Agassiz
Reported: April 23 ( Kevin Jones)

Palm Warbler
Location: Richmond Nature Park
Reported: April 21-22 (Sharon Toochin)
Directions: park in the parking area at the EASTERN end of the park located just north of the intersection of Westminster Highway and Jacombs - just west of the automall. The flock is in the trees on the north side of the start of the walking trail. Observed just after noon. Also seen at noon and around 5:30pm on the 22nd--also near and at the parking area 

Photo: Carlo Giovanella

DICKCISSEL (Photographed and Confirmed)
Location: On the north corner of Elliott St. and Chisholm in Ladner. For more information visit main page.
Reported: April 20-28 (Douglas Bamford, m. obs.) 

White-throated Sparrow
Location: Maplewood Conservation Area
Reported: April 19 (Rob Lyske)

Blue Jay 
Location: Stevenson Rd (Sardis)
Reported: April 19 (Gord Gadsden)

Long-billed Curlew (2)
Location: The airport field at Hope Airport
Reported: April 15 (Tom Plath & Mike Force)
Another one on Chilliwack Central Rd, just west of Banford Rd. (April 19)

Iceland Gull
Location: Banford Rd Chilliwack
Reported: April 15 (Gord Gadsden)
Pictures can be viewed Here

Gray-crowned Rosy Finch  (2)
Location: School Rd (Kilby)
Reported: April 13-14 (Guy Monty & Jason Osterhold)

Sandhill Crane (2)
Location: Corner of Lefeuvre and Marsh-McCormick Rds (Glen Valley)
Reported: April 13-15 (Chris Buis)

Vesper Sparrow
Location: Flood-Hope Rd, Hope
Reported: April 13-15 (Mike Force & Tom Plath)

Lapland Longspur (15)
Location: Banford Rd, Chilliwack
Reported: April 11 (Gord Gadsden)

Long-billed Curlew
Location: Maplewood Conservation Area
Reported: April 10 (Daniele Mitchell)

Glaucous Gull
Location: Prest Rd, Chilliwack
Reported: April 3-4 (Gord Gadsden)
Another one at Island 22, April 8 Chilliwack (Gord Gadsden)
Another one reported on Sumas Central, April 9-10. For more info and pictures click Here

Say's Phoebe 
Location: Hope Airport
Reported: April 6-9 (Rod C)

Red-naped Sapsucker
Location: West path at Fraser View Gulf Course
Reported: April 5 (Meg Brown)
Another one seen in a backyard in Hope. (Private Property)

Valley Birds (Rick Toochin)
April 4
Hope-2 Say's Phoebes, 1 Vesper Sparrow
1 Long-billed Curlew along Highway 1 by Vedder Road
April 6
Lesser Yellowlegs-0.5km south Hwy 1 on Prest Rd Still present on 7th
Lapland Longspur, 40 Mountain Bluebirds-Hope Airport
April 7---Chipping Sparrow at Cole and Campbell Rd in Sumas Prairie

Mountain Chickadee
Location: Maplewood Conservation Area near the South West Marsh.
Reported: April 2 (Rob Lyske)

Townsend's Solitaire 
Location: Maplewood Conservation area, SW corner near the lookout to the flats.
Reported: March 30 (Caroline Knox et al.)

Western Scrub Jay
Location: 95th Ave at Grant Place in North Delta in a top of a conifer.
Reported: March 30 (Kevin Louth)

Mountain Bluebird
Location: North Perimeter Fence at YVR (Vancouver International Airport)
Reported: March 29 (Paul Levesque)
Others are being seen at Colony Farm and throughout the Valley. 

Sora (2)
Location: Colony Farms Regional Park. Pond on the East side of the park
Reported: March 27-April 11 (David Schutz)

Valley Birding (Rick Toochin)

Western Kingbird-In Abbotsford along Fadden Rd. near Vye Rd. April 1

3 Mountain Bluebirds in Columbia Valley along Columbia Valley Rd-March 24

Adult Loggerhead Shrike on Kosikar Road-March 21 

6 adults 3 m / 3 f Western Bluebirds along Frost Rd in Columbia Valley-March 22

2 Gyrfalcons 1 adult 1 immature along Cole Road-March 22

6 American Tree Sparrows along InterProvincial Road near 3 Road-March 22

A singing pair of Hutton’s Vireos along Henderson Road at the DND property-March 22 

2 Mountain Chickadees along Frost Road-Mar 22
2 Mountain Bluebirds in Sumas Prairiealong Wells-line Road west of Cole Road March 26

1 Western Bluebird in Columbia Valley along Kosikar Road March 27

Snowy Owl along Highway 1 just before Prest Road- March 28

2 Cassin’s Finches male and female at Hope Airport- March 29

Sumas Prairie 1 Gyrfalcon along Cole Road- March 29

Vesper Sparrow near Hope Airport- March 29

Gray-crowned Rosy Finch (2)
Location: Along the gravel path between the Manor and the Museum of Anthropology, UBC
Reported: March 24 (Brent Diakow)


RED-FLANKED BLUETAIL
Location: Queen's Park, New Westminster
Reported: Jan 13-March 24
See main page for more details.

  Photo: Sharon Toochin


Snow Bunting
Location: Pitt Polder
Reported: March 18 (Ken Thomson)

BRAMBLING 
Location: 868 17th Ave, near Laurel and 17th, Vancouver. Permission has been given to view the bird FROM THE LANE. DO NOT ENTER THE YARD! Please use proper twitching etiquette.
Reported: Jan 6- March 29

Photo: Andrew Foxall

Hope Airport Birds: March 21
Gray-crowned Rosy Finch (1)
North side of Airport (Damion Ruthven & John Morgan)
Pine Grosbeak (5)
Southwest side of Airport (Chris McDonald)

White-throated Sparrow
Location: Ladner Harbour Park, Eastern Edge of the Parking lot
Reported: March 10-March 18 (Brent Diakow)

Mountain Bluebird
Location: West Side of Tsawwassen Drive, just south of the First Nation Band Office.
Reported: Feb 20-March 16 (Jess Findlay)

Harris's Sparrow
Location: Private Residence in Richmond
Reported: Early Dec - March 16 (John Tabak)

Photo: Mike Tabak

Valley Birds (Rick Toochin)

March 16-1 Say's Phoebe, and a Great Gray Owl Near sunset along Iverson Road.

March 15- Say's Phoebe, Rusty Blackbird at Hope Airport, and 3 Gyrfalcons in Sumas Prairie.