To report rare birds or sightings of interest in the Vancouver and Lower Mainland area, Fraser Valley and Sea to Sky Country and to submit pictures and/or for any identification questions please email Melissa Hafting at bcbirdergirl@gmail.com
**Iona Inner Ponds will be closed to birders indefinitely starting May 11-2022 as the inner ponds are decommissioned.**
American White Pelican (22)
Location: Flying west over IOCO townsite - Port Moody
Reported: May 26 (Hilary Maguire)
Western Kingbirds
Location: 1 HERE at Brunswick Point briefly also seen at Deltaport - Delta
Reported: May 26 (Ian Burgess, m.obs)
Location: 2 at Colony Farm last seen between duck pond and Coquitlam River (t-junction) - Coquitlam
Reported: May 23-26 (David Schutz, m.obs)
Reported: May 24 (Liz Stockwell)
Location: 2 on Middleton Rd near the golf course - Pitt Meadows
Reported: May 23 (Mamie Ryder)
Location: 1 at the pond at Ambleside Park - West Vancouver
Reported: May 19 (Justin Merondun, m.obs)
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| Western Kingbird in Coquitlam - Photo: Richard Wakelam |
Yellow-breasted Chat (1) *Be Bear Aware*
*Please do not use playback on this bird as it nested here last year and likely will again and they are endangered*
Location: HERE on the Sturgeon Sough dyke on the south edge of Swaneset Gold Course - Pitt Meadows
Reported: May 17-26 (Brian Stech, m.obs)
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| Yellow-breasted Chat in Pitt Meadows - Photo: Brian Stech |
Solitary Sandpipers
Location: 1 flying over Surrey Memorial Park - Surrey
Reported: May 26 (Dan Tyson)
Location: 1 HERE at Garden City Lands - Richmond
Reported: May 25 (Melissa Hafting)
Location: 1 HERE at Garden City Lands - Richmond
Reported: May 22 (Ilya Povalyaev and Melissa Hafting)
Location: 1 HERE in flooded field near Ford Landing - Pitt Meadows
Reported: May 21 (Debbi Hlady and Kathryn Milligan, m.obs)
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| Solitary Sandpiper in Richmond - Photo: Melisa Hafting |
Wilson’s Phalaropes
Location: 8 in west field near tower at Reifel - Delta
Reported: May 21-26 (Peter Candido, m.obs)
Location: 1 in pond in field off dyke between 104-112 th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported: May 26 (Kevin Louth)
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| Wilson's Phalarope in Delta - Photo: Joanne Macdougall |
California Scrub-Jay (1) *not open to public*
Location: Private Home - Abbotsford
Reported: May 18-26 (L. Schroeder)
Ruddy Turnstone (1)
Location: HERE on mudflats south of farm at Brunswick Point - Delta
Reported: May 25 (Enrico Konig)
Lewis’s Woodpecker (1)
Location: On snag near warming hut at Reifel Bird Sanctuary before flying north. Last seen on a tree HERE at Alaksen NWA before flying north - Delta
Reported: May 24 (John Chandler, m.obs)
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| Lewis’s Woodpecker in Delta - Photo: Kathleen Fry |
Least Flycatcher (1)
Location: 1 at the woodlot at Iona - Richmond
Reported: May 22 (Sean Vanderluit)
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| Least Flycatcher in Richmond - Photo: Sean Vanderluit |
Redheads
Location: 1 at Sardis Park - Chilliwack
Reported: May 18-22 (Jonathan Pap, m.obs)
Location: 4 male at Cheam Lake Wetlands - Rosedale
Reported: May 8-19 (Damion Ruthven, m.obs)
Location: 2 at Willband Creek Park - Abbotsford
Reported: May 14 (Lucas Meestra, m.obs)
Location: 1 at Sardis Park - Chilliwack
Reported: May 18-22 (Jonathan Pap, m.obs)
Location: 4 male at Cheam Lake Wetlands - Rosedale
Reported: May 8-19 (Damion Ruthven, m.obs)
Location: 2 at Willband Creek Park - Abbotsford
Reported: May 14 (Lucas Meestra, m.obs)
Location: 6 in the pond just past the parking area at Jesperson Dyke - Chilliwack
Reported: May 14 (Chris McDonald)
Location: 6 in the pond just past the parking area at Jesperson Dyke - Chilliwack
Reported: May 14 (Chris McDonald)
Location: 1 male at sewage lagoons - Hope
Reported: May 14 (Scott Denkers)
SWAINSON’S HAWK (2)
Location: 1 flying north over Highway 1 west of Upper Prairie Rd - Chilliwack
Reported: May 22 (Gord Gadsden)
Location: 1 flying east over community gardens at Colony Farm - Coquitlam
Reported: May 21 (Rob Lyske)
Lark Sparrow (1)
Location: HERE and HERE feeding on path at Colony Farm - Coquitlam
Reported: May 21 (Jesse Kemp, m.obs)
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| Lark Sparrow in Coquitlam - Photo: Melissa Hafting |
Ruddy Turnstone (1)
Location: Last seen on beach in front of washrooms at Iona - Richmond
Reported: May 21 (Zach Eskandar)
Pacific Golden-Plover (1)
Location: At the base on the south side of the south jetty at Iona - Richmond
Reported: May 21 (Jim Davie)
Lewis's Woodpecker (1)
Location: 1 on Little St near Page Rd - Abbotsford
Reported: May 21 (Gabi Cuff)
Lewis’s Woodpecker in Abbotsford - Photo: Gabi Cuff
Location: 1 on Little St near Page Rd - Abbotsford
Reported: May 21 (Gabi Cuff)
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| Lewis’s Woodpecker in Abbotsford - Photo: Gabi Cuff |
Dusky Flycatchers
Location: 1 HERE at Fraser Glen Pond - Surrey
Reported: May 19-20 (John Gordon, m.obs)
Location: 1 HERE at Paulik Park - Richmond
Reported: May 18-20 (Melissa Hafting, m.obs)
Location: 1 HERE at the small wooden bridge near Lost Lagoon at Stanley Park - Vancouver
Reported: May 19-20 (Alexsandra Djordjevic, m.obs)
Location: 1 HERE at Sturgeon Slough - Pitt Meadows
Reported: May 13-20 (Neill Vanhinsberg)
Location: 2 in the meadow west of the lake near the boardwalk at Deer Lake Park - Burnaby
Reported: May 16-19 (Liz Stockwell)
Location: 9 at Hope Airport - Hope
Reported: May 19-20 (Gord Gadsden)
Location: 1 HERE at QE Park - Vancouver
Reported: May 19 (Kathleen Oliver, m.obs)
Location: 1 at community gardens at Terra Nova - Richmond
Reported: May 18 (Sabine Jessen)
Location: 1 last seen by the bridge. Also seen HERE and HERE at Maplewood Flats - North Van
Reported: May 9-18 (Rob Lyske, m.obs)
Location: 1 HERE at Adanac Park - Vancouver
Reported: May 16 (Jeremie Choquette)
Location: 1 HERE at Brunswick Point - Delta
Reported: May 14 (Melissa Hafting and Ilya Povalyaev)
Location: 1 at duck pond at Vanier Park - Vancouver
Reported: May 14 (Ben Freeman)
Location: In a cedar tree off the 37th Ave entrance at Queen Elizabeth Park - Vancouver
Reported: May 14 (Enrico Konig)
Location: 2 HERE at Trout Lake - Vancouver
Reported: May 13-14 (Kathleen Oliver and Ed Nygren, m.obs)
Location: 1 at west edge of the meadow to the west of the Totem Poles at Burnaby Mtn - Burnaby
Reported: May 13 (George Clulow)
Location: 1 HERE at Jericho - Vancouver
Reported: May 13 (Evan Larson)
Location: 1 HERE at Ambleside Pond - West Vancouver
Reported: May 12 (Rob Lyske)
Location: 1 HERE near Musqueam Park - Vancouver
Reported: May 9 (Sabine Jessen)
Location: 1 HERE at Vanier Park near the music academy - Vancouver
Reported: May 9 (Alexsandra Djordjevic)
Location: 1 HERE at Paulik Park - Richmond
Reported: May 6-7 (Melissa Hafting, m.obs)
Location: 1 at Hope Airport - Hope
Reported: May 4-7 (Gord Gadsden, m.obs)
Location: 1 at the woodlot at Iona - Richmond
Reported: May 7 (Bruce Taylor)
Location: 1 HERE at the corner of 1st Ave and 1st St in IOCO - Port Moody
Reported: May 6 (Dan Tyson)
Location: 1 at Strathcona community gardens (Hawkes Ave and Malkin Ave) - Vancouver
Reported: May 4 (Paul Kendal)
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| Dusky Flycatcer in Richmond - Photo: Melissa Hafting |
Vesper Sparrows
Location: Up to 14 at Hope Airport - Hope
Reported: April 30-May 20(Dave Beeke, m.obs)
Location: 1 HERE at the Squamish Golf Course - Squamish
Reported: May 17 (Chris Murrell)
Location: 1 at grassy area near playground HERE at Second Beach at Stanley Park - Vancouver
Reported: May 16-17 (Steven Lawrence, m.obs)
Location: 1 at picnic table area at Alouette Lake - Maple Ridge
Reported: May 16 (Neill Vanhinsberg)
Location:1 at the west end of Millenium Bridge at Colony Farm - Coquitlam
Reported: May 10-15 (David Schutz, m.obs)
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| Vesper Sparrow in Vancouver - Photo: Frank Lin |
RBA: BROAD-WINGED HAWK (1 adult)
Location: Flying north over the community gardens at Colony Farm - Coquitlam
Reported: May 19 (Sabine Decamp)
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| Broad-winged Hawk in Coquitlam - Photo: Sabine Decamp |
Western Kingbirds
Location: 1 at Fraser Glen Pond - Surrey
Reported: May 19 (Mackenzie Fenton)
Location: 1 at base of the north jetty at Iona - Richmond
Reported: May 19 (Quinn McCallum)
Location: 1 on the north side of Colony Farm Rd halfway to the community gardens parking lot - Coquitlam
Reported: May 16 (Neill Vanhinsberg)
Location: 1 at the pond at Ambleside Park - West Vancouver
Reported: May 13 (Justin Merondun)
Location: 1 behind the Museum of Anthropology at Cecil Green Park - Vancouver
Reported: May 13 (Keith Riding)
Say’s Phoebe (1)
Location: At the end of the spit near the yellow gate before you get to the tip at Squamish River Estuary - Squamish
Reported: May 17 (John Buchanan)
Solitary Sandpiper (2)
Location: 1 at Shoreline Park - Port Moody
Reported: May 17 (AB Moats)
Location: 1 HERE at Garden City Lands - Richmond
Reported: May 16 (Melissa Hafting)
Location: 1 in ditch across from the east end of the Millenium Bridge at Colony Farm - Coquitlam
Reported: May 16 (Enrico Konig)
Location: 1 at Trout Lake - Vancouver
Reported: May 14 (Bryan Zandberg)
Wandering Tattler (1)
Location: Between marker 165-190 on the north side of the south jetty at Iona - Richmond
Reported: May 16 (Mackenzie Fenton, m.obs)
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| Wandering Tattler in Richmond - Photo: Melissa Hafting |
Pacific Golden-Plovers
Location: 2 on field across from polo club on 88 St - Delta
Reported: May 11-16 (Kevin Louth, m.obs)
Location: 1 on Turf Farm on 72nd St - Delta
Reported: May 9 (Ken Klimko and Kevin Louth, m.obs)
Wilson’s Phalarope (2)
Location: 1 in field at the polo club on 88 St - Delta
Reported: May 16 (Kevin Louth)
Location: 1 in pond in field on 72nd St west of 36 ave - Delta
Reported: May 16 (Kevin Louth, m.obs)
Long-billed Curlew (1)
Location: Flying north over the South Jetty at Iona - Richmond
Reported: May 16 (Ayman Rizk)
Northern Waterthrush (1)
Location: 1 HERE at Maplewood Flats - North Vancouver
Reported: May 15 (Rob Lyske)
Horned Lark (2)
Location: On south jetty by first shelter between marker 63-211 at Iona - Richmond
Reported: May 13-15 (Craig Huish, m.obs)
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| Horned Lark in Richmond - Photo: Craig Huish |
RBA: SNOWY PLOVER (1)
Location: On mudflats HERE off South Jetty at Iona - Richmond
Reported: May 13-14 (Craig Huish, m.obs)
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| Snowy Plover in Richmond - Photo: Craig Huish |
Great Egret (2)
Location: 1 HERE in front of farmhouse at Brunswick Point - Delta
Reported: May 14 (Melissa Hafting and Ilya Povalyaev)
Location: 1seen HERE near Fisherman’s Cove (best spot to scope from is HERE) - West Van
Reported: May 13 (Else Mikkelsen, m.obs)
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| Great Egret in Delta - Photo: Ilya Povalyaev |
Franklin’s Gull (1)
Location: On mudflats at East Beach at Maplewood Flats - North Van
Reported: May 14 (Sue Flecker, m.obs)
Baird’s Sandpiper (1)
Location: 1 on river on the N Jetty - Richmond
Reported: May 14 (Ed Kingma)
American White Pelican (14)
Location: Sitting on sandbar at Blackie Spit at the end of the spit - Surrey
Reported: May 12-13 (Mackenzie Fenton, m.obs)
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| American White Pelicans in Surrey - Photo: Sabine Decamp |
Yellow-breasted Chat (1)
Location: Heard only briefly at Paulik Park but not relocated - Richmond
Reported: May 13 (Mike Toochin)
Solitary Sandpipers
Location: 1 at Jericho Pond near bridge - Vancouver
Reported: May 12 (Brian Stech)
Location: 1 HERE at Jackman Wetlands - Langley
Reported: April 29-May 11 (Benjamin Pap, m.obs)
Location: 2 HERE at Trout Lake - Vancouver
Reported: May 6-10 (Peter Lypkie et al., m.obs)
Reported: May 7 (Shirley Hough)
Location: 1 at west side of east pond at Blakeburn Lagoons - Port Coquitlam
Reported: May 6 (John Reynolds, m.obs)
Location: 1 on riverbank on the Sheep Paddock Trail at Colony Farm - Coquitlam
Reported: May 6 (Moose Stoffregen)
Location: 2 briefly HERE before flying south at Garden City Park (likely same birds seen previously at Garden City Lands) - Richmond
Reported: May 6 (Melissa Hafting)
Location: 1 HERE and 1 HERE at Garden City Lands - Richmond
Reported: May 4-5 (Melissa Hafting, m.obs)
Location: 1 on Chilliwack Central Rd west of Upper Prairie Rd - Chilliwack
Reported: May 5-6 (Chris McDonald)
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| 1 of 2 Solitary Sandpipers in Richmond - Photo: Melissa Hafting |
Ruddy Turnstones
Location: 1 at the end of spit at Blackie Spit Park - Surrey
Reported: May 11 (Steve Lambert)
Location: 1 on the mudflats in front of the pumphouse at 112th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported: May 5 (Tom Plath)
Location: 2 on Crescent Beach - Surrey
Reported: April 30 (Damon West)
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| Ruddy Turnstone in Surrey - Photo: Steve Lambert |
Franklin’s Gull (16)
Location: Flying north over the Coal Port Jetty - Delta
Reported: May 11 (Mike Toochin)
Swainson's Hawk (1)
Location: Flying over Cheam Lake Wetlands - Rosedale
Reported: May 11 (Gord Gadsden)
Mountain Bluebird (2 female)
Location: 1 last seen at base of N Jetty. First seen on beach north of washrooms at Iona - Richmond
Reported: April 30-May 10 (Yousif Attia, m.obs)
Location: 1 at Christ Church Cemetery near the fallen soldier headstones - Cloverdale
Reported: May 7 (Alanna Froese)
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| Mountain Bluebird in Richmond - Photo: Evan Larson |
Western Kingbirds
Location: 1 near parking lot at Brydon Lagoon - Langley
Reported: May 10 (Mitch Gardiner)
Location: 1 Flying north past the second benches at Brunswick Point (did not stop) - Delta
Reported: May 9 (Ilya Povalyaev)
Location: 2 at Hope Airport - Hope
Reported: April 30-May 10 (Dave Beeke, m.obs)
Reported: May 8 (Michael Shepard)
Location: 1 in between the two ponds at Blakeburn Lagoons - Port Coquitlam
Reported: May 6 (Marija Bojanic)
Location: 2 on fence of DND facility on Fore Rd - Abbotsford
Reported: April 27-29 (Nick Balanchoff, m.obs)
Location: 1 at Hooge Wetlands - Chilliwck
Reported: April 29 (Harry N.)
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| Western Kingbird in Port Coquitlam - Photo: Marija Bojanic |
American White Pelicans
Location: 5 flying east over IKEA - Coquitlam
Reported: May 9 (Henry de Jong)
Location: 4 flying east over Beaver Lake Stanley Park - Vancouver
Reported: May 7 (Daniel Poon)
Location: 10 flew south over Iona - Richmond
Reported: May 6 (Kris Mirski, m.obs)
Location: 3 flying N over Hatzic Lake - Mission
Reported: May 3 (Gord Gadsden)
Location: 1 landed briefly on SW marsh then flew towards Brunswick Point - Delta
Reported: April 30 (Brad Vissia, Louis Sobol, Kathleen Fry et al., m.obs)
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| American White Pelican in Delta - Photo: Chris Drysdale |
LARK SPARROW (1)
Location: HERE along river bank of sewage lagoons - Hope
Reported: May 8 (Dave Beeke)
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| Lark Sparrow in Hope - Photo: Dave Beeke |
LESSER GOLDFINCH (1 female) *Not open to public*
Location: Private Home - Delta
Reported: May 7 (Sabine Decamp)
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| Lesser Goldfinch in Delta - Photo: Sabine Decamp |
Hudsonian Godwit (1)
Location: On Turf Farm on 72nd St - Delta
Reported: May 7 (Ken Klimko, m.obs)
LEWIS’S WOODPECKER (3)
Location: 2 HERE at Hope Airport - Hope
Reported: May 7 (Jonathan Pap et al.)
Location: 1 HERE perched in cedar tree across from gas station - Tsawwassen
Reported: May 6 (Brent Diakow, m.obs)
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| Lewis's Woodpecker in Delta - Photo: John Gordon |
Long-billed Curlews
Location: 1 on east beach mudflats last viewed from viewing platform at McCartney Creek at Maplewood Flats - North Van
Reported: May 6 (Edward Nygren, m.obs)
Location: 1 at the foot of 88th St on the mudflats at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported: May 5 (Tom Plath)
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| Long-billed Curlew in North Van - Photo: Sue Flecker |
Hermit Warbler x Townsend’s Warbler (1)
Location: At Old Marine Drive Lookout at UBC - Vancouver
Reported: May 6 (Jaryd Turner)
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| Hermit x Townsend’s Warbler in Vancouver - Photo: Jaryd Turner |
Parasitic Jaeger (1)
Location: 1 at Lighthouse Marine Park - Point Roberts
Reported: May 5 (Kevin Louth)
Vesper Sparrows
Location: 1 at Kawkawa Lake Bridge - Hope
Reported: May 5 (Jason Stovin)
Location: 1 at Private Home - Hope
Reported: May 5 (Scott Denkers)
Location: 1 at DND site on Fore Rd - Abbotsford
Reported: May 4 (Nick Balanchoff)
Location: 1 at Vanier Park on the grassy area beside the Vancouver Academy of Music - Vancouver
Reported: May 2 (Aleksandra Djordjevic)
Location: 9 HERE at Hope Track - Hope
Reported: April 9-May 2 (Jason Stovin, m.obs)
Location: 2 seen HERE at base of N Jetty also seen in front of washrooms at Iona - Richmond
Reported: April 29-May 1 (Robert Hoffman and Yousif Attia, m.obs)
Location: 1 HERE and HERE at pullout off Ferguson Rd on causeway at Iona - Richmond
Reported: April 30 (Liron Gertsman, m.obs)
Reported: April 30 (Steven Furino)
RUFF (1 male)
Location: In entrance slough off driveway, half way down from entrance gate to parking lot HERE at Reifel - Delta
Reported: May 3-4 (Josh Inman and John Chandler, m.obs)
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| Ruff in Delta - Photo: Janice White |
Palm Warbler (1)
Location: HERE at west side of West Lagoon by viewing platform at Blakeburn Lagoons - Port Coquitlam
Reported: May 4 (Colin Clasen, m.obs)
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| Palm Warbler in Port Coquitlam - Photo: David Schutz |
Wilson's Phalarope (1 female)
Location: HERE on 41 b St - Tsawwassen
Reported: May 2-4 (Debbi Hlady and Kathryn Milligan, m.obs)
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| Wilson’s Phalarope in Delta - Photo: Melissa Hafting |
Pacific Golden-Plover (1)
Location: Turf Farm on 72nd St - Delta
Reported: May 3-4 (Kevin Louth)
BREWER'S SPARROW (1)
Location: On Parr Rd, 50m east of were the pavement turns to gravel feeding on dandelions on the side of the road - Chilliwack
Reported: April 26-May 2 (Gord Gadsden, m.obs)
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| Brewer's Sparrow in Chilliwack - Photo: Jonathan Pap |
Northern Mockingbird (1)
Location: Last seen in bushes HERE and on manure piles in field near the 96th St pumphouse at the Boundary Bay Dyke - Delta. Originally seen east of the 80th St pumphouse.
Reported: Nov 23/21-May 1/22 (Richard Wakelam, m.obs)
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| Northern Mockingbird in Delta - Photo: Ilya Povalyaev |
Lapland Longspur (1)
Location: 1 HERE at pullout off Ferguson Rd on causeway at Iona - Richmond
Reported: April 30- May 1 (Mike and Sharon Toochin, m.obs)
Harris’s Sparrow (1)
Location: 1 last seen HERE. Also seen in the semi-circle grassy area near the NE corner of the BCIT Marine Campus at Waterfront Park - North Vancouver
Reported: Dec 3/21-April 30/22 (Joe Denham, m.obs)
Solitary Sandpiper (1)
Location: 1 just west of the Cariboo Dam at Burnaby Lake - Burnaby
Reported: April 29-30 (Ed Kingma)
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| Solitary Sandpiper in Burnaby - Photo: Ed Kingma |
Lewis’s Woodpecker (1)
Location: On telephone pole on Delair Rd near Airport Rd at Hope Airport - Hope
Reported: April 30 (Michael Shepard, m.obs)
Bank Swallow (1)
Location: Flying over main outer pond at Iona-Richmond
Reported: April 28 (Liron Gertsman, m.obs)
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| Bank Swallow in Richmond - Photo: Liron Gertsman |
Long-billed Curlews
Location: 1 on mudflats at 80th St and also seen between 88-96th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported: April 25-28 (Ben Freeman)
Location: 2 on mudflats east of 104th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported: April 24 (Enrico Konig)
Location: 1 briefly seen at Beach Grove Lagoon in front of pumphouse - Tsawwassen
Reported: April 24 (Yousif Attia)
Location: 1 feeding on the mudflats on the s side of the south jetty off the jetty base at Iona - Richmond
Reported: April 20-22 (Robert and Robin Holland, m.obs)
Location: 2 photographed flying n over the airport runway off Ferguson Rd with 5 Whimbrel - Richmond
Reported: April 19 (Craig Huish)
Location: 1 last seen in field on south side of Chilliwack Central Rd just east of Upper Prairie Rd. Previously seen HERE at the NE corner of Gibson Rd and Prairie Central Rd. Previously seen HERE on Banford Rd - Chilliwack
Reported: April 8-19 (Jason Osterhold, m.obs)
Location: 5 off the Chelem Trail at Squamish River Estuary - Squamish
Reported: April 7 (Chris Dale)
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| Long-billed Curlew in Chilliwack - Photo: Cindy Martin |
Redhead (3)
Location: 1 male and female HERE at Green Lake -Whistler
Reported: April 9-28 (Kathryn Milligan and Debbi Hlady, m.obs)
Location: 1 male on Kawkawa Lake -Hope
Reported: April 22 (Gord Gadsden)
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| 1 of 2 Redheads in Whistler - Photo: Liz Barrett |
RUFF (1 adult male)
Location: On the mudflats off the pumphouse HERE at Beach Grove Lagoon - Tsawwassen
Reported: April 23-27 (Dave Hoar and Noreen Rudd, m.obs)
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| Ruff in Delta - Photo: Brian Stech |
Mountain Bluebirds (not all birds listed in the FV where they get larger #'s)
Location: 2 on the west side of Trout Lake - Vancouver
Reported: April 27 (Carlee Chan)
Location: Up to 8 at the Hope Airport - Hope
Reported: March 29-April 22 (Ken Davis, m.obs)
Location: 1 HERE on fence at Campbell Valley Park - Langley
Reported: April 21 (Wim Vesseur, m.obs)
Location: 1 at track at North Surrey Secondary - Surrey (please only visit before or after school hours)
Reported: April 14-19 (Kirsten Wilson, m.obs)
Location: Up to 21 HERE in the Squamish River Estuary and up to 11 east of the central channel - Squamish
Reported: March 14-April 18 (Chris Dale, Chris Murrell, m.obs)
Location: 1 at Grant Narrows parking lot - Pitt Meadows
Reported: April 14 (Jo-Anne Macdougall)
Location: 1 on Pam Rocks (boat access only) - West Van
Reported: April 13 (Ken Wright)
Location: 4 HERE off McGuire Rd - Chilliwack
Reported: April 10 (John Procee, m.obs)
Location: Up to 13 near the towers north of the pumphouse trail and south of the duck pond at Colony Farm - Coquitlam
Reported: March 25-April 9 (Richard Wakelam, m.obs)
Location: 8 at Eagle Point Park - Harrison Mills
Reported: April 5 (Kathy Stewart)
Location: 2 males on the east mudflats at Maplewood Flats - North Vancouver
Reported: April 4 (Rob Lyske)
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| Mountain Bluebird in Langley - Photo: Mike Klotz |
American White Pelicans
Location: 7 circling over Minnekhada Park - Coquitlam
Reported: April 27 (Larry Cowan)
Location: 7 flying west over Aldergrove Regional Park- Langley
Reported: April 26 (Eric Habisch)
Location: 2 flying over Reifel heading towards Brunswick Point - Delta
Reported: April 23 (Dave Olson, m.obs)
Location: 2 sitting on Green Lake - Whistler
Reported: April 22-23 (Dea Lloyd, m.obs)
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| American White Pelicans in Whistler - Photo: Liz Barrett |
Northern Pintail x Green-winged Teal Hybrid (1 drake)
Location: In farm slough at Blackie Spit Park - Surrey
Reported: April 23-27 (Cos van Wermeskerken, m.obs)
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| NOPI X GWTE drake hybrid in Surrey - Photo: Cos van Wermeskerken |
COMMON POORWILL (1)
Location: Flying over a private home and recorded calling on Stevenson Rd - Chilliwack
Reported: April 26 (Jonathan Pap)
Pacific Golden-Plover (3)
Location: 1 adult in breeding on the mudflats off the pumphouse HERE at Beach Grove Lagoon - Tsawwassen
Reported: April 26 (Paul Liu)
Location: 1 in field on 64th St near the overpass - Delta
Reported: April 26 (Kevin Louth)
Location: 1 in field on Sumas Central Rd, 1 km west of Evans Rd - Chilliwack
Reported: April 26 (Gord Gadsden)
Location: 1 in field with Black-bellied Plovers on Hornby Drive east of the railway bridge - Delta Reported: April 25 (Kevin Louth, m.obs)
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| Pacific Golden-Plover in Delta - Photo: Kevin Louth |
CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD (3 male)
Location: 1 briefly feeding on Oregon Grape at the base of the south jetty HERE at Iona - Richmond
Reported: April 24 (Melissa Hafting, m.obs)
Location: 1 briefly seen perched HERE on the Sword Fern Trail near UBC - Vancouver
Reported: April 24 (Kris Mirski)
Location: 1 briefly feeding on salmon berry at the south end of the centre dyke HERE at Reifel - Delta
Reported: April 23 (Kristina Breit)
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| Calliope Hummingbird at Reifel - Photo: Kristina Breit |
Say's Phoebe (1-2 birds)
Location: First seen HERE at Alder Cove Beach and last seen HERE near golf course at Seymour Landing on Bowen Island - West Vancouver
Reported: April 21-April 23 (Charlotte Gruneau)
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| Say's Phoebe on Bowen Island - Photo: Charlotte Gruneau |
WESTERN BLUEBIRD (2)
Location: Seen in the barnyard just east of 60172 Yale Rd. Also seen at the weather station at the Hope Airport - Hope
Reported: March 29-April 23 (Ed Klassen, m.obs)
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| 1 of 2 Western Bluebirds in Hope - Photo: John Procee |
Common Teals
Location: 1 in Eagle Creek and by the boardwalk at Piper Spit at Burnaby Lake - Burnaby
Reported: Dec 5/21-April 23/22 (Istvan Orosi, m.obs)
Location: 1 seen off causeay HERE on Ferguson Rd - Richmond
Reported: April 22 (John Peetsman, m.obs)
Location: 1 seen off Tsawwassen Dyke Trail (First Nations Land) - Delta
Reported: April 21 (Benjamin Freeman)
Location: 1 on the east mudflats of Maplewood Flats - North Vancouver
Reported: March 27-April 19 (Rob Lyske, m.obs)
Location: 1 in Kennedy Rd Slough - Pitt Meadows
Reported: Nov 10/21-March 26/22 (Larry Cowan, m.obs)
Location: 1 at Beach Grove Lagoon - Delta
Reported: March 25 (Robert Holland)
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| Common Teal in Burnaby - Photo: Brian Stech |
Lapland Longspur (1)
Location: 1 at marker 62 on the south jetty at Iona - Richmond
Reported: April 22 (Craig Huish, m.obs)
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| Lapland Longspur in Richmond - Photo: Melissa Hafting |
Vesper Sparrow (1)
Location: 1 at the east end of Hope Airport - Hope
Reported: April 22 (Gord Gadsden)
Blue-winged Teal x Cinnamon Teal (hybrid) (1 male)
Location: HERE at Reifel - Delta
Reported: Dec 24/21-April 21/22 (Janice White, m.obs)
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| Hybrid Drake Cinnamon x Blue-winged Teal - Photo: Janice White |
Baird's Sandpiper (1) *rare in spring*
Location: Green Lake - Whistler
Reported: April 19 (Liz Barrett)
Horned Lark (1)
Location: Base of the south jetty at Iona - Richmond
Reported: April 18 (Luke Strikwerda)
Say's Phoebe (1)
Location: On the fence line of the construction site HERE near the BC Hydro substation - Burnaby
Reported: April 17 (Marija Bojanic)
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| Say's Phoebe in Burnaby - Photo: Marija Bojanic |
California Scrub-Jay (1)
Location: 1 on Shell Rd between Sealord Rd and Seahurst Rd - Richmond
Reported: Jan 21-April 17 (Paul Clarke, m.obs)
California Scrub-Jay in Richmond - Photo: Melissa Hafting
Location: 1 on Shell Rd between Sealord Rd and Seahurst Rd - Richmond
Reported: Jan 21-April 17 (Paul Clarke, m.obs)
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| California Scrub-Jay in Richmond - Photo: Melissa Hafting |
Lapland Longspur (1)
Location: On rocks at Each Beach at Maplewood Flats - North Van
Reported: April 12 (Jan Bryant)
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| Lapland Longspur in North Van - Photo: Jan Bryant |
LESSER GOLDFINCH (2 male and 1 female)
Location: Near feeders at the Charlotte Ave entrance of Fishtrap Creek Park. Also seen at private home near Maclure Park - Abbotsford
Reported: Jan 27-April 12 (Joel Schmidt, m.obs)
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| Male Lesser Goldfinch in Abbotsford - Photo: Marilyn Olson |
Say's Phoebes
Location: 2 at the Hope Airport - Hope
Reported: March 12-April 10 (Ken Davis, m.obs)
Location: 1 HERE along the Chelam Trail in the Squamish River Estuary - Squamish
Reported: March 22-April 14 (Chris Dale, m.obs)
Reported: April 8 (Bentley Colwill)
Location: 1 at Eagle Point Park - Harrison Mills
Reported: April 5 (Kathy Stewart)
Location: 1 on private property in South Burnaby
Reported: April 5 (Christine Gaio)
Location: 1 last seen south of the duck pond at Colony Farm. First seen on the north side of the duck pond - Coquitlam
Reported: March 26 (Colin Clasen, m.obs)
Location: 1 last seen HERE at Otter Point at Maplewood Flats - North Van
Reported: March 21 (Sue Flecker)
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| Say's Phoebe in North Van - Photo: Sue Flecker |
RUFF (1)
Location: HERE at Boundary Bay Regional Park. Last seen far out on the mudflats before flying south towards Point Roberts - Delta
Reported: April 5 (Debbi Hlady, m.obs)
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| Ruff in Delta - Photo: Kathryn Milligan |
Gyrfalcons
Location: 1 juv last seen on Hale Rd. Also seen on Mckechnie Rd near Connecting Rd - Pitt Meadows
Reported: Jan 1-April 5 (Andrew Boycott, m.obs)
Location: 1 adult sitting on hydro pole on Middleton Rd between Koerner and Ladner Rds - Pitt Meadows
Reported: Nov 23/21-March 11/22 (Mike Tabak, m.obs)
Location: 1 juv seen at Brunswick Point. Also seen flying over marsh between 64-72nd St. Also seen at the foot of 72nd St at the Boundary Bay Dyke - Delta
Reported: Nov 24/21-March 7/22 (Mike Tabak, m.obs)
Location: 1 adult sitting on microwave tower HERE - Maple Ridge
Reported: Dec 7/21-Feb 16/22 (Mike Tabak, m.obs)
Location: 1 adult at the end of Whorley Rd - Aggasiz
Reported: Jan 29 (Les Peterson)
Location: 1 adult at the end of Whorley Rd - Aggasiz
Reported: Jan 29 (Les Peterson)
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| Gyrfalcon in Agassiz - Photo: Les Peterson |
Northern Goshawk (1 adult)
Location: Seen on centre dyke and also on trail HERE at Reifel - Delta
Reported: March 5-April 5 (Simon Shutter, m.obs)
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| Northern Goshawk in Delta - Photo: Simon Shutter |
Mountain Bluebirds
Location: 8 at Bayly Park - Whistler
Reported: March 25-29 (NM)
Location: 1 at Grant Narrows - Pitt Meadows
Reported: March 24 (Gareth Pugh, Wim Vesseur, et al)
Red-naped Sapsucker (1)
Location: Near houses at the south end of Oliver's Landing - Furry Creek
Reported: March 28 (Stephen Novosad, Stéphane Barrette)
American Tree Sparrow (4)
Location: 3 HERE on Koerner Rd - Pitt Meadows
Reported: March 8-27 (Mark McAnally, m.obs)
Location: 1 HERE at Willband Creek Park - Abbotsford
Reported: March 8-18 (Benjamin Pap, m.obs)
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| American Tree Sparrow in Pitt Meadows - Photo: Brian Stech |
Harris’s Sparrow (1)
Location: 1 bird seen 1.9km west of the Gill Rd entrance at Jesperson Dyke - Chilliwack
Reported: March 19 (Chris McDonald)
RBA: WHOOPER SWAN (1 adult)
Location: First seen at the NE corner of Trout Lake - Vancouver. Last seen in a field with Trumpeters off Hwy 91 near 7 Rd before flying North - Richmond
Reported: March 17-18 (Edward Nygren, m.obs)
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| Whooper Swan in Vancouver - Photo: Brian Stech |
Redhead (4 males)
Location: 2 in lake HERE off 6 Ave -Langley
Reported: March 15 (Eric Habisch)
Location: 1 at Ambleside Park duck pond - West Vancouver
Reported: March 12 (Rob Lyske, m.obs)
Location: 1 HERE in ditch on Southlands Dr - Delta
Reported: Jan 21-March 6 (Debbi Hlady, m.obs)
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| Redhead in West Van - Photo: Rob Lyske |
Rusty Blackbird (1 female)
Location: Last seen on manure pile near Finn Slough HERE and HERE - Richmond
Reported: Nov 20/2021-March 9/22 (Sabine Jessen, m.obs)
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| Rusty Blackbird in Richmond - Photo: Richard Wakelam |
Glaucous Gull (3 first-winter)
Location: 1 on dock at the south end of Trout Lake - Vancouver
Reported: Feb 17-March 5 (Edward Nygren, m.obs)
Location: In corn stubble field on Burns Drive near farmhouse toward the landfill - Delta
*note subtle hybrid also present with black extending too high on lower mandible*
Reported: Jan 24-March 4 (Kevin Louth, m.obs)
Location: 1 at the sw corner of Lefeuvre Rd and Marsh McCormick Rd - Abbotsford Reported: Feb 18-March 1 (Dan Tyson, m.obs)
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| Glaucous Gull in Vancouver - Photo: Edward Nygren |
ROCK SANDPIPER (1)
Location: End of south side of ferry jetty with 30 Black Turnstones last seen on the breakwater - Tsawwassen
Reported: Feb 16-March 3 (Kevin Louth, m.obs)
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| Rock Sandpiper in Delta - Photo: Kevin Louth |
Swamp Sparrow (1)
Location: In reeds by grey tower at Reifel - Delta
Reported: Feb 27 (Kathryn Milligan and Debbi Hlady)
Common Teals
Location: 2 at Shoreline Park - Port Moody
Reported: Feb 9-25 (Moose Stoffregen, m.obs)
Location: 1 at compensation lagoon at ferry jetty - Delta
Reported: Feb 23 (Kevin Louth)
Location: 1 at Surrey Lake Park - Surrey
Reported: Jan 11-Feb 25 (Ian Burgess, m.obs)
Location: 1 HERE in ditch on Southlands Dr - Delta
Reported: Jan 22-Feb 9 (Sabine Decamp, m.obs)
Location: 1 in pond at mansion near 64th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported: Feb 8 (Kevin Louth)
WHITE-TAILED PTARMIGAN (1)
Location: A few kms past 1st Pump Peak on Mt. Seymour. Snowshoes/microspikes required and avalanche conditions are moderate in the area. 8.5km round trip. - North Vancouver
Reported: Feb 23 (Dan Tyson)
Townsend's Solitaire (3)
Location: 1 on Stevens Lane near Stevens Dr - Delta
Reported: Feb 21 (Anne Murray)
Location: 1 at 3132-3137 Adanac St - Vancouver
Reported: Feb 14-20 (Jeremie Choquette, m.obs)
Location: 1 at Captain Cook Park - Vancouver
Reported: Feb 13 (Chris Ensing)
Northern Pintail x Green-winged Teal Hybrid (1 male)
Location: Off the mouth of farm slough at Blackie Spit Park - Surrey
Reported: Feb 14-19 (Debbie Wheeler, m.obs)
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| Northern Pintail x Green-winged Teal (hybrid) in Surrey - Photo: Debbie Wheeler |
Rusty Blackbird (2)
Location: 9790 Armstrong Rd - Chilliwack
Reported: Dec 27/21-Feb 18/22 (Dave Beeke and Bentley Colwill, m.obs)
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| Rusty Blackbird in Chilliwack - Photo: Dave Beeke |
Golden Eagle (4)
Location: 1 in flight over Stevenson Rd - Chilliwack
Reported: Feb 19 (Jonathan Pap)
Location: 1 circling in flight over Nathan Creek Dyke HERE before flying SE - Langley
Reported: Feb 17 (Eric Habisch)
Location: 1 on the east end of Campbell Rd - Abbotsford
Reported: Feb 14-17 (Krissi Martin, obs)
Location: 1 flying south over the dyke at the end of Sharpe Rd near Connecting Rd - Pitt Meadows
Reported: Feb 7 (Kathy Manuel)
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| Golden Eagle in Langley - Photo: Eric Habisch |
Red Knot (1)
Location: On mudflats at 112th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported: Nov 26/21-Feb 14/22 (Kevin Louth, m.obs)
Prairie Falcon (1)
Location: Last seen perched on tree on dyke east of Connecting Rd. Also
seen in tree on Ladner Rd HERE. Also seen HERE on tree on Connecting Rd - Pitt Meadows
Reported: Nov 3/21-Feb 14/22
(Raymond Ng, m.obs)
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| Prairie Falcon in Vancouver - Photo: Raymond Ng |
Red-naped/Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (1 male)
Location: Last seen at 3322 Wakely Court in Burnaby. First seen on birches on Brunette Headwaters Trail 25 m east of the intersection with Spruce Loop Trail at Burnaby Lake - Burnaby
Reported: Feb 13 (Joe Denham, m.obs)
RBA: RED-SHOULDERED HAWK (1 adult) *1st photo record for BC*.
Location: Last seen at the original location HERE on Tuyttens Rd. Also seen on Bridge Rd just north of Whelpton Rd. Also seen on Whorley Rd and also at the west end of Cutler Rd. Also seen HERE on Caignou Rd and HERE on Whelpton Rd. - Agassiz
Reported: Dec 12/21-Feb 11/22 (Susan Fennellow, m.obs)
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| Red-shouldered Hawk in Agassiz - Photo: Marc Sole |
Glaucous Gull (1)
Location: In field on Annis Rd near Hwy 1 - Chilliwack
Reported: Feb 8 (Gord Gadsden)
Yellow-billed Loon (1 immature)
Location: Last seen at Oliver's Landing - Furrey Creek. Previously seen off the ferry dock at Porteau Cove.
Reported: Jan 15-Feb 7 (Ken Wright, m.obs)
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| Yellow-billed Loon at Porteau Cove - Photo: Chris Murrell |
Bohemian Waxwings (irruption year not all locations listed)
Location: Up to 50 at mansion pond between 64-72nd St at Boundary Bay Dyke - Delta
Reported: Jan 1-31 (Ian Burgess, m.obs)
Location: 40 near parking lot at Centennial Beach - Delta
Reported: Jan 23-25 (Neill Vanhinsberg, m.obs)
Location: Up to 40 on East Dyke and SW pond at Reifel - Delta
Reported: Jan 2-23 (Melissa Hafting et al., m.obs)
Location: 22 at Broaday and Maple Ave - Chilliwack
Reported: Jan 8-16 (Ed Klassen, m.obs)
Location: 32 on the south side of Grant Narrows Parking Lot - Grant Narrows
Reported: Jan 4 (Wayne Diakow, m.obs)
Location: 32 on the south side of Grant Narrows Parking Lot - Grant Narrows
Reported: Jan 4 (Wayne Diakow, m.obs)
Location: 25 near the pumphouse on Savannah and Raptor Trail at Beach Grove - Delta
Reported: Dec 29/21-Jan 4/22 (Wayne Diakow, m.obs)
Location: 15 at the east side of lagoons at Blakeburn Lagoons - Port Coquitlam
Reported: Jan 1-4 (Monica Nugent, m.obs)
Location: 1 at Bewicke Park - North Van
Reported: Dec 31/21-Jan 1/22 (John Kalman)
Location: 4 on berry tree near red barn at community gardens also seen on berry tree near boardwalk at Terra Nova - Richmond
Reported: Dec 18/21-Jan 1/22 (Chris van Walleghem, m.obs)
Location: 4 on the north side of the dyke at Deboville Slough near Pitt River - Coquitlam
Reported: Dec 31/21-Jan 1/22 (Trent Glukler, m.obs)
Location: 19 last seen HERE. 5 HERE and HERE. 3 first seen HERE on Rannie Rd at Grant Narrows - Pitt Meadows Reported: Dec 9/21-Jan 1/22 (Wayne Diakow, Paul Clarke and Monica Nugent, m.obs)
Location: 8 on the north side of Derek Doubleday Arboretum along 56th Ave - LangleyReported: Dec 31/21-Jan 1/22 (Dan Tyson, m.obs)
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| Bohemian Waxwing in Vancouver - Photo: Melissa Hafting |
California Scrub-Jay (1)
Location: 1 last seen at 7901 114A St. Previously seen at 11430 78th Ave. Also seen at 11528 80th Ave and 7833 Swanson Ave - Delta
Reported: Aug 4/21-Jan 27/22 (Phil Kelly, Marylou Johnson and Robyn Moore, m.obs)
Common Teals
Location: 1 in Canoe Pass (viewed from Westham Island Bridge) -Delta
Reported: Dec 1/21-Jan 15/22 (Mike Tabak)
Location: 1 at Beach Grove lagoon - Delta
Reported: Jan 2-3 (Sabine Jessen)
Northern Goshawk (1 adult)
Location: West dyke half way between Steveston Hwy and Williams Rd - Richmond
Reported: Jan 27 (Nigel Gilmour)
American Tree Sparrow (1)
Location: 1 in field HERE on Little Rd. First seen HERE on Bell Rd - Abbotsford
Reported: Jan 5-25 (Krissi Martin)
Snow Bunting (1)
Location: Flying over compensation lagoon at Ferry Jetty - Delta
Reported: Jan 22 (Peter Candido)
Golden Eagle (1)
Location: On Wellsline Rd near Cole Rd - Richmond
Reported: Jan 22 (Gord Gadsden)
Swamp Sparrow (1)
Location: On dyke at the foot of Williams Rd also seen at Francis Rd where meets the dyke - Richmond
Reported: Jan 14-22 (Sabine Jessen, m.obs)
Location: On dyke at the foot of Williams Rd also seen at Francis Rd where meets the dyke - Richmond
Reported: Jan 14-22 (Sabine Jessen, m.obs)
Townsend’s Solitaire (2)
Location: 1 near the playground at Terra Nova Park - Delta
Reported: Jan 9-19 (Ken Willis, m.obs)
Location: 1 in the NW corner near waterfall at Diefenbaker Park - Delta
Reported: Jan 7-17 (Debbi Hlady, m.obs)
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| Townsend's Solitaire in Richmond - Photo: Melissa Hafting |
Location: On piling in river at Kilby Provincial Park - Harrison Mills
Reported: Jan 9-19 (Kathy Stewart)
Glaucous Gull (1 first winter)
Location: Bailey Landfill - Chilliwack
Reported: Jan 18 (Jonathan Pap)
American Tree Sparrows
Location: 1 HERE on dyke east of Sharpe Rd - Pitt Meadows
Reported: Jan 15-16 (Zach Westfall, m.obs)
Location: 2 HERE at Sturgeon Slough- Pitt Meadows
Reported: Jan 15 (Neill Vanhinsberg and Alison Curtis)
Location: 2 on Boundary Bay Dyke between 72nd St and 80th St pumphhouse - Delta
Reported: Dec 29/21-Jan 9/22 (Pete Lypkie, m.obs)
Location: 1 at the end of Ford Rd on the dyke in Junco Flock - Pitt Meadows
Reported: Jan 1 (Larry Cowan)
Pine Grosbeak (2)
Location: Near Hollyburn Lodge - West Vancouver
Reported: Jan 16 (Racheal Mackinnon)
Tufted Duck x Scaup (hybrid) (1)
Location: NW inner pond at Iona - Richmond
Reported: Jan 15 (Ben Keen)
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| Male Tufted Duck X Scaup hybrid - Photo: Ben Keen |
Chipping Sparrow (1)
Location: In corn stubble field off dyke east of the end of Hale Rd in junco flock - Pitt Meadows
Reported: Jan 15 (Carlo Giovanella)
Sora (1)
Location: By the Piper Spit boardwalk at Burnaby Lake - Burnaby
Reported: Jan 7-9 (Istvan Orosi, m.obs)
Pine Grosbeak (2)
Location: On Boundary Bay Dyke between 72nd St and 80th St pumphhouse - Delta
Reported: Jan 9 (Jan Bradley)
Harris’s Sparrow (1 adult)
Location: 1 adult at private home -Abbotsford
Reported: Dec 6/21-Jan 7/22 (Krissi Martin)
Glaucous Gull (1, first winter)
Location: End of South Jetty at Iona - Richmond
Reported: Dec 30-Jan 6 (Toby Ye, m.obs)
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| Glaucous Gull in Richmond - Photo: Toby Ye |
Yellow-headed Blackbird (1 male)
Location: On trail along river on the south edge of Point Grey Course - Vancouver
Reported: Jan 1 (Mike Fung)
Bohemian Waxwings
Location: 8 on berry tree at Tolmie St and West 9th Ave - Vancouver
Reported: Dec 31 (Kris Mirski)
Location: 1 on trees between parking lot and scotch pond at Garry Point Park - Richmond
Reported: Dec 31 (Grayson Smith)
Location: 50 at 203 St and Old Dewdney Trunk Rd - Pitt Meadows
Reported: Dec 30 (Raymond Ng)
Location: 12 HERE near Fraser Hwy - Langley
Reported: Dec 28-29 (Eric Habisch, m.obs)
Location: 44 at the SW part of Island 22 - Chilliwack
Reported: Dec 20-29 (Chris McDonald)
Location: 2 HERE at Serpentine Fen - Surrey
Reported: Dec 23 to Jan 2 (Alison Evely, m.obs)
Location: 14 near the intersection of Maple Ave and Woodbine St - Chilliwack
Reported: Dec 27 (Bentley Colwill)
Location: 2 HERE on Tuyttens Rd. - Agassiz
Reported: Dec 21-22 (Bridget Spencer, m.obs)
Location: 2 on a mountain ash tree across from the Sardis Sports Complex on Tyson Rd - Chilliwack
Reported: Dec 18-19 (Gord Gadsden, m.obs)
Location: 1 on berry tree on Trafalgar St near W 16th Ave - Vancouver
Reported: Dec 9-14 (Evan Larson, m.obs)
Location: 1 along entrance rd to Alaksen - Delta
Reported: Dec 9 (Emily Hood)
Lapland Longspur (1)
Location: In NE corner of field at McDermott Rd and Campbell Rd - Abbotsford
Reported: Dec 30 (Dave Beeke)
Pine Grosbeak (1)
Location: At 203 St and Old Dewdney Trunk Rd - Pitt Meadows
Reported: Dec 30 (Raymond Ng)
White-winged Crossbills
Location: 5 on Sumas Mountain Rd across from Dawson Rd - Abbotsford
Reported: Dec 30 (Lee Harding)
Location: 2 in private yard - Chilliwack
Reported: Dec 29 (Gord Gadsden)
American Tree Sparrow (1)
Location: Along edge of 140th St near 40th Ave - Surrey
Reported: Dec 30, 2021 (Wayne Weber)
Townsend’s Solitaire (1)
Location: SE side of Pitch and Putt at QE Park - Vancouver
Reported: Dec 29 (Richard Hedley, m.obs)
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| Townsend’s Solitaire in Vancouver - Photo: Jeremiah Kennedy |
Sora (1, late)
Location: In flooded woodlot just off the SW marsh trail at Reifel -
Delta
Reported: Dec 27 (Kathleen Fry)
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| Sora in Delta - Photo: Kathleen Fry |
Horned Lark (7)
Location: In fields on Banford Rd between Prairie Central Rd and McGuire Rd - Chilliwack
Reported: Dec 19-23 (Ed Klassen, m.obs)
Mountain Bluebirds
Location: 1 HERE on Humphrey Rd - Agassiz
Reported: Dec 19-21 (Doug Martin, m.obs)
Location: 1 HERE near the north lawn parking lot at River View Hospital - Coquitlam
Reported: Dec 19 (Hilary Maguire)
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| Mountain Bluebird in Agassiz - Photo: Bridget Spencer |
Glaucous Gull (1 adult)
Location: On mudflats between 96-104th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported: Dec 21 (Geoffrey Newell)
Redhead (1 male)
Location: HERE in slough on Tuyttens Rd - Agassiz
Reported: Dec 13-21 (Ilya Povalyaev and Melissa Hafting, m.obs)
Townsend’s Solitaire (1)
Location: HERE on Tuyttens Rd. - Agassiz
Reported: Dec 21 (Bridget Spencer, m.obs)
Western Tanager (1 female)
Location: HERE at Salish Park - Chilliwack
Reported: Dec 20 (Bentley Colwill)
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| Western Tanager in Chilliwack - Photo: Bentley Colwill |
Gray Catbird (1, late)
Location: HERE in a garden bed between the parking area for the tennis courts and the foot of Comox St at Stanley Park - Vancouver
Reported: Dec 14-20 (Peter Woods, m.obs)
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| Gray Catbird in Vancouver - Photo: Peter Woods |
Northern Waterthrush (1)
Location: HERE in flooded part of trail on the north side of the trail at Deas Island - Delta
Reported: Nov 19-Dec 19 (Guy Monty, m.obs)
Rusty Blackbird (1)
Location: 1 at Eagle Point Park - Harrison Mills
Reported: Dec 19 (Kathy Stewart, m.obs)
Location: 1 at Eagle Point Park - Harrison Mills
Reported: Dec 19 (Kathy Stewart, m.obs)
Pine Grosbeaks
Location: 2 last seen HERE. 3 first seen HERE on Rannie Rd at Grant Narrows - Pitt Meadows
Reported: Dec 9-19 (Wayne Diakow and Paul Clarke, m.obs
Location: 1 at the Belcarra Lookout at Belcarra Regional Park - Belcarra
Reported: Dec 19 (John Reynolds)
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| Pine Grosbeak in Pitt Meadows - Paul Clarke |
Glaucous Gull (1, first winter)
Location: Viewed by boat in front of BC Ferries maintenance yard - Richmond
Reported: Dec 17 (Guy Monty)
Golden Eagle (1)
Location: Flying SE after briefly perching HERE - Langley
Reported: Dec 15 (Eric Habisch)
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| Golden Eagle in Langley - Photo: Eric Habish |
Common Yellowthroat (1, late)
Location: At the corner of Humphrey and Sutherland Rds - Aggasiz
Reported: Dec 14 (Gord Gadsden et al.)
Wilson’s Warbler (1, late)
Location: west of UBC Botanical Garden Parking lot - Vancouver
Reported: Dec 8-11 (Debbie Hlady, m.obs)
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| Wilson's Warbler in Vancouver - Photo: Ilya Povalyaev |
Golden Eagle (1)
Townsend’s Solitaire (1) requires paid entry*
Location: In Alpine Garden inside UBC Botanical Garden - Vancouver
Reported: Dec 8-9 (Debbie Hlady, m.obs)
Gyrfalcons
Location: 1 adult flying over the east end of Luckakuck Way - Chilliwack
Reported: Dec 6 (Gord Gadsden)
Location: 1 adult sitting on telephone pole at the foot of 72nd St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported: Dec 5 (Freda du Plessis)
Location: 1 flying over #5 Rd near Marion Rd - Abbotsford
Reported: Dec 5 (Jonathan Pap)
American Tree Sparrow (4)
Location: 4 near pumphouse at 80th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported:
Dec 5-6 (Grant Edwards, m.obs)
Bohemian Waxwings
Location: 2
HERE briefly
before flying east at McDonald Beach - Richmond
Reported: Dec 5 (Yousif
Attia)
Location: 21 at Private Home - Chilliwack
Reported: Dec 4 (Chris
McDonald)
Ancient Murrelets
Location: 23 at Lily Point - Point Roberts
Reported: Dec 5 (Melissa
Hafting and Ilya Povalyaev)
Location: 8 at Lighthouse Marine Park - Point Roberts
Reported: Dec 2-5
(Melissa Hafting, m.obs)
Green Heron (1, late)
Location: HERE in
ditch on McDonald Rd - Chilliwack
Reported: Nov 26-Dec 4 (Bentley
Colwill, m.obs)
Snow Buntings
Location: 1 in corn stubble field half way between 104-112th St at Boundary
Bay - Delta
Reported: Dec 4 (Cindy and Doug Martin)
Location: 1 at the
2nd shelter at Iona south jetty - Richmond
Reported: Nov 29 (Kris Mirski)
Western Tanager (1, late)
Location: Viewed
HERE on berry
tree in Cedar Park Church parking lot. Previously seen in private home on
nearby Arthur Dr - Ladner
Reported: Dec 1-2 (Valerie Fuller, m.obs)
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| Western Tanager in Delta - Photo: Ilya Povalyaev |
YELLOW-BILLED LOON (1)
Location: HERE at
Jericho Park before moving to deeper waters - Vancouver
Reported: Dec 2
(Evan Larson)
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| Yellow-billed Loon in Vancouver - Photo: Evan Larson |
Swamp Sparrow (2)
Location: 1
HERE in marsh on
the Blue Heron Trail at Squamish River Estuary - Squamish
Reported: Dec
2 (Chris Murrell and Chris Dale)
Location: 1, 200 m east of 112th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported:
Nov 29 (Kevin Louth)
Common Teal (1)
Location: HERE at Deas Island - Ladner
Reported: Dec 2 (Jeremy Gatten)
Chipping Sparrow (1) *not open to public*
Location: Private Home - Delta
Reported: Nov 28 (Sabine Decamp)
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| Chipping Sparrow in Delta - Photo: Sabine Decamp |
ROCK SANDPIPER (1)
Location: On mudflats at the foot of 112th St at Boundary Bay then flew
towards 104th St - Delta
Reported: Nov 26 (Kevin Louth)
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch (1)
Location: Feeding briefly on the dyke east of 104th St at Boundary Bay -
Delta
Reported: Nov 24-26 (Raymond Ng)
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| Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch in Delta - Photo: Raymond Ng |
RBA: RUFF (1 female)
Location: On mudflats with Dunlin last seen between 96th St and pilings.
First seen east of 104th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported: Nov 24
(Kevin Louth)
Common Yellowthroat (1, late)
Location:
HERE
at Jericho Park - Vancouver
Reported: Nov 23 (Evan Larson)
Common Redpolls
Location: 3 in alders by rowing pavilion briefly before flying west at
Burnaby Lake
Reported: Nov 23 (Joe Denham)
Location: 7
HERE feeding with
siskins along Shannon Rd trail - Richmond
Reported: Nov 19-20 (Monica
Nugent, m.obs)
Location: 5 flying north over
HERE at Terra
Nova - Richmond
Reported: Nov 20 (Melissa Hafting, Ilya Povalyaev and
John Reynolds)
Location: 6
HERE at Maplewood
Flats - North Van
Reported: Nov 20 (Dave Olson, m.obs)
Location: 1
HERE at Elgin
Park - Surrey
Reported: Nov 20 (Josh Inman)
Location: 5
HERE and
HERE in alder
trees with Pine Siskins at Jericho Park - Vancouver
Reported: Nov 19
(Evan Larson, m.obs)
Location: 2 flying over west dyke at Reifel
Reported: Nov 19 (Gavin
McKinnon)
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| Common Redpoll in Richmond - Photo: Melissa Hafting |
American Tree Sparrows
Location: 1 HERE at Fraser
River Park - Vancouver
Reported: Nov 23 (Kaichi Huang)
Location: 1
HERE at Terra
Nova - Richmond
Reported: Nov 21 (Mike Fung)
Location: 1 by the second shelter on the south jetty at Iona - Richmond
Reported:
Nov 20 (Angela Bond)
Location: 1
HERE near Surrey
Lake Park - Surrey
Reported: Nov 20 (Mike Klotz)
Parasitic Jaeger (1 adult)
Location: Scoped off Centennial Beach - Tsawwassen
Reported: Nov 22
(Kevin Louth)
Great Egret (1)
Location: In culvert on Chaplin Rd on Seabird Island - Agassiz
Reported:
Nov 17-21 (Murray Brown, m.obs)
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| Great Egret in Agassiz - Photo: Dave Beeke |
Ancient Murrelets
Location: 2 scoped off the end of White Rock Pier - Surrey
Reported:
Nov 21 (Andrew Boycott and Alanna Froese, m.obs)
Location: 2 Viewed offshore Richmond from the Tsawwassen to Duke Point
ferry
Reported: Nov 20 (Guy Monty)
Redhead (1 male)
Location: In the SW corner of the west lagoon at Blakeburn Lagoons - Port
Coquitlam
Reported: Nov 7-21 (Richard Wakelam, m.obs)
|
| Redhead in Port Coquitlam - Photo: Moose Stoffregen |
Vesper Sparrow (1)
Location:
HERE briefly
before flying east at Sullivan Heights Park - Surrey
Reported: November
19 (Dan Tyson)
American White Pelican (1)
Location: Last seen swimming off the spit in front of the railway bridge at
Blackie Spit - Surrey
Reported: Nov 16 (Anne Murray et al.)
|
| American White Pelican in Surrey - Photo: Terry Carr |
Townsend's Solitaires
Location: 2 at the Grant Narrows parking lot near the boat launch and seen
near tower on the nature dyke trail - Pitt Meadows
Reported: Nov 11-16 (Hilary Maguire, m.obs)
Location: 1 just south of the Shaughnessy Street parking area at Colony Farm
- Coquitlam
Reported : Nov 10 (Dan Tyson)
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches
Location: 7
HERE and
HERE at Squamish
River Estuary
Reported: Nov 11-13 (Chris Dale et al., m.obs)
Location: 2 near picnic tables in parking lot near boat launch at Grant
Narrows - Pitt Meadows
Reported: Nov 11-12 (Ashley van der Pouw Kran,
m.obs)
Location: 1 last seen 600 m east of the pool at Second Beach at Stanley
Park. First seen at English Bay Beach between the path and logs, adjacent to
the Inukshuk - Vancouver
Reported: Nov 9 (Mike Boyd, m.obs)
Location: 2
HERE near ditch
on Middleton Rd - Pitt Meadows
Reported: Nov 7-8 (Bryan Vroom, m.obs)
Location: 4 feeding on ground
HERE on 96th St -
Delta
Reported: Nov 7-8 (Brent and Wayne Diakow, m.obs)
|
| Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches in Delta - Photo: Wayne Diakow |
Redheads
Location: 1 at Ferry Rd Slough - Ladner
Reported: Nov 13 (Wayne Weber)
Location: 3 at Willband Creek Park - Abbotsford
Reported: Oct 28-Nov 9
(Mike Bailey, m.obs)
American Tree Sparrows
Location: 1
HERE near 72nd St
on dyke at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported: Nov 11-13 (James Park, m.obs)
Location: 1
HERE at Brunswick
Point - Delta
Reported: Oct 21-Nov 11 (Sabine Jessen, m.obs)
Location: 1 on the boardwalk at Iona - Richmond
Reported: Nov 10 (Jim
Davie)
Location: 1 feeding on grass at Oliver's Landing - Furry Creek
Reported:
Nov 10 (Chris Murrell)
Location: 1
HERE at Squamish
River Estuary - Squamish
Reported: Nov 8-10 (Grant Danielson, m.obs)
Location: 1 on Third Beach at Stanley Park - Vancouver
Reported: Nov 9
(Mario Lam)
Location: 1
HERE at Trout
Lake - Vancouver
Reported: Nov 9 (Kathleen Oliver, m.obs)
|
| American Tree Sparrow in Delta - Photo: Sabine Jessen |
Harris's Sparrow (1) *not open to public*
Location: Private Home - Richmond
Reported: Nov 9-13 (Catherine Chow)
|
| Harris's Sparrow in Richmond - Photo: Catherine Chow |
Chipping Sparrow (1)
Location: Halfway down the nature dyke trail at Grant Narrows
Reported:
Nov 13 (Len Jellicoe)
Rusty Blackbird (1 female)
Location: In blackbird flock in pumpkin field on 28th Ave
HERE - Delta
Reported:
Nov 8-12 (Kevin Louth, m.obs)
|
| Rusty Blackbird in Delta - Photo: Andrew Boycott |
Vaux’s Swift (1, late)
Location: Flying over Westminster Hwy at Terra Nova - Richmond
Reported:
Nov 12 (Bruce Hogg)
|
| Vaux's Swift in Richmond - Photo: Bruce Hogg |
Mountain Bluebird (1 female)
Location: On the dyke between Francis Rd and Williams Rd - Richmond
Reported:
Nov 10-11 (Geoff McDonell, m.obs)
|
| Mountain Bluebird in Richmond - Photo: Geoff McDonell |
Gray Catbird (1, late) *Please be respectful of private residences* *DO NOT GO IN PLAYGROUND AREA*
Location:
HERE in the
courtyard of Athlete's Village Co-Op - Vancouver
Reported: Nov 3-11
(Paul Kendal, m.obs)
|
| Gray Catbird in Vancouver - Photo: Paul Kendal |
RBA: CATTLE EGRET (1)
Location: In field with gulls just east of Hoogen Park on Cole Road. Also
seen in field on Cole Rd near Campbell Road - Abbotsford
Reported: Nov
7-10 (Gabi Cuff, m.obs)
|
| Cattle Egret in Abbotsford - Photo: Gabi Cuff |
Lesser Yellowlegs (1, late)
Location: In field at the south end of Whatcom Rd near Boundary Rd -
Abbotsford
Reported: Nov 6-8 (Gord Gadsden, m.obs)
Great Egret (1)
Location: Last seen in field on McDermott Rd. Near Campbell. Previously seen
on Sumas Prairie on the East side of Cole Road just South of Campbell Rd in
a partially flooded corn field - Abbotsford
Reported: Nov 6-7 (Neal Doan,
m.obs)
|
| Great Egret in Abbotsford - Photo: Neal Doan |
Parasitic Jaeger (3, late)
Location: Scoped from Acadia Beach - Vancouver
Reported: Oct 31-Nov 7
(Ilya Povalyaev and Melissa Hafting, m.obs)
Pacific-slope Flycatcher (1, late)
Location: 536 Eves Rd on Bowen Island - West Vancouver
Reported: Nov 6
(Trisha Beaty)
|
| Pacific-Slope Flycatcher on Bowen Island - Photo: Trisha Beaty |
Sora (1)
Location: Duck pond at Colony Farm - Coquitlam
Reported: Nov 6
(Caileigh and Braden Kirkby)
Redhead (2)
Location: Hatzic Lake - Mission
Reported: Nov 5 (Gord Gadsden)
MacGillivray’s Warbler (1, late)
Location:
HERE at Vanier
Park in bushes behind the Vancouver Academy of Music - Vancouver
Reported:
Oct 31-Nov 5 (Sara Harris, m.obs)
|
| MacGillivray’s Warbler in Vancouver - Photo: Jock McCracken |
Snow Bunting (2)
Location: 1 at marker 210 on the south jetty at Iona - Richmond
Reported: Oct
31-Nov 5 (Sara Harris, m.obs)
Location: 1 on the Ferry Jetty by taxi pullout - Delta
Reported: Oct 30
(Jonathan Pap, m.obs)
American White Pelican (2)
Location: 1 on Pitt River off the end of the dyke at the foot of Harris Rd -
Pitt Meadows
Reported: Nov 4 (Daddio Leon)
Location: 1 in flooded cranberry field near 96th St and Hornby Dr - Delta
Reported:
Nov 3 (Wayne Weber)
RBA: CATTLE EGRET (1)
Location: In field with gulls
HERE and
HERE on Hornby
Drive between 104th St and 112th St - Delta
Reported: Nov 3 (Wayne
Weber, m.obs)
|
| Cattle Egret in Delta - Photo: Zach Westfall |
ROCK WREN (1) **PLEASE DO NOT POINT CAMERAS OR OPTICS AT PRIVATE HOUSES**
Location:
HERE on logs and
rocks at Centennial Beach - Delta
Reported: Oct 27-Nov 3 (Kaichi Huang,
m.obs)
|
| Rock Wren in Delta - Photo: Kaichi Huang |
American Tree Sparrows
Location: 1
HERE at Spanish
Banks - Vancouver
Reported: Nov 2-3 (Ben Freeman, m.obs)
Location: 1
HERE at Terra
Nova Park - Richmond
Reported: Nov 2 (Mike Toochin, m.obs)
Location: 1 on the trail
HERE at Reifel -
delta
Reported: Oct 31 (Kat McGrath)
Location: 1 In bushes near the floodplain west of the lagoon at Brydon
Lagoon - Langley
Reported: Oct 31 (John Gordon)
Location: 1 at the west pond benches at Jericho Park -Vancouver
Reported:
Oct 30 (Liam Irwin)
Mountain Bluebirds (2)
Location: On fence near Henderson Rd and Columbia Valley Rd - Chilliwack
Reported:
Nov 1 (Gord Gadsden)
Vaux’s Swift (2, late)
Location: Flying over East Beach at Maplewood - North Van
Reported: Oct
31 (Kaichi Huang)
Redheads
Location: 1 male
HERE on Lefeuvre
Rd - Abbotsford
Reported: Oct 31 (Wayne Weber)
Location: 4 in previously flooded Cranberry Field on 112th St North of Hwy
10 - Delta
Reported: Oct 26 (Brian Self)
Location: 1 male in Scaup flock at the end of 3rd Ave at Boundary Bay -
Delta
Reported: Oct 18 (Sabine Decamp)
Chipping Sparrow (1)
Location:
HERE on Hale Rd -
Pitt Meadows
Reported: Oct 31 (Melissa Hafting)
Golden Eagle (2)
Location: 1 adult flying east over East Beach at Maplewood - North Van
Reported:
Oct 30 (Rob Lyske)
Location: 1 juv flying east over East Beach at Maplewood - North Van
Reported:
Oct 29 (Rob Lyske, m.obs)
Rusty Blackbird (1 female)
Location: On East Beach then flew north into trees towards Dollarton Hwy at
Maplewood Flats - North Van
Reported: Oct 29 (Sue Flecker, m.obs)
|
| Female Rusty Blackbird in North Van - Photo: Sue Flecker |
Willow Flycatcher (1, late)
Location:
HERE at Lost
Lagoon at Stanley Park - Vancouver
Reported: Oct 29 (Mark Stevens)
|
| Willow Flycatcher in Vancouver - Photo: Mark Stevens |
Swamp Sparrow
Location:
HERE at Jericho
Park - Vancouver
Reported: Oct 29 (Evan Larson)
|
| Swamp Sparrow in Vancouver - Photo: Evan Larson |
American White Pelican (1)
Location: Last seen
HERE on the
Chilliwack River. Previously seen on the Chilliwack River near Browne Creek
Wetlands - Chilliwack
Reported: Oct 17-29 (Marc Sole, m.obs)
|
| American White Pelican in Chilliwack - Photo: Daniel Bastaja |
Harris's Sparrow (1 immature) *not open to public*
Location: Private Home - Maple Ridge
Reported: Oct 21-29 (Enida
Javorovic)
|
| Harris’s Sparrow in Maple Ridge - Photo: Enida Javorovic |
Pacific Golden-Plover (3 juv)
Location: 1 roosting on pilings
HERE at mouth of
slough at Blackie Spit - Surrey
Reported: Oct 19-27 (Ilya Povalyaev,
m.obs)
Location: Foot of 88th St and 96th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported:
Oct 12-16 (Kevin Louth, m.obs)
|
| Pacific Golden-Plover in Delta - Photo: Zach Westfall |
Clay-colored Sparrow (1)
Location: Last seen
HERE in junco
flock. Previously seen
HERE
at Spanish Banks - Vancouver
Reported: Oct 21-27 (Ben Freeman, m.obs)
|
| Clay-colored Sparrow in Vancouver - Photo: Ian Burgess |
Great Egret (1)
Location: 1 seen
HERE at Elgin
Park. Also seen across the river near the railway bridge viewed from the end
of the spit at Blackie Spit Park - Surrey
Reported: Oct 6-27 (Alison
Evely, m.obs)
|
| Great Egret in Surrey - Photo: Edie Bijdemast |
Harris’s Sparrow (1 immature)
Location:
HERE in cedar at
Garden City Park - Richmond
Reported: Oct 26 (Melissa Hafting)
|
| Harris's Sparrow in Richmond - Photo: Meissa Hafting |
Lapland Longspurs
Location: Flying over East Concession at Spanish Banks - Vancouver
Reported:
Oct 25 (Dan Tyson)
Location: 1 at the west end of 40th Ave - Surrey
Reported: Oct 21 (Mike
Tabak)
Location: 1 on the south side of the ferry jetty and up to 17 on the north
side of the ferry jetty between the taxi pullout and the base -
Tsawwassen
Reported: Sept 20-Oct 18 (Kevin Louth, m.obs)
Location: 2 at the foot of 88th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported:
Oct 14 (Kevin Louth)
Location: 1 at the end of the spit at Blackie Spit Park - Surrey
Reported:
Oct 7-13 (Robert Holland, m.obs)
Location: 3 at the foot of 96th St - Delta
Reported: Oct 9-12 (Yousif
Attia)
Location: 6 at Harrison Lagoon - Harrison Hot Springs
Reported: Oct
7-11 (Krissi Martin, m.obs)
Townsend's Solitaire (2)
Location: 1
HERE on Beresford
St - Delta
Reported Oct 25 (Blake Noelte)
Location: 1 at North 40 Dog Park - Delta
Reported: Oct 21 (Hank Tseng)
Mountain Bluebird (2)
Location: Last seen across from the entrance to the inner ponds along
Ferguson Rd. Previously seen
HERE on the N
Jetty at Iona - Richmond
Reported: Oct 23-24 (Kevin Krebs, m.obs)
Franklin’s Gull (1 Juv)
Location: End of White Rock Pier - White Rock
Reported: Oct 19-23
(Kaichi Huang, m.obs)
|
| Franklin’s Gull in Surrey - Photo: Ken Willis |
American Golden-Plovers (Juvs)
Location:1 roosting on pilings
HERE at mouth of
slough at Blackie Spit - Surrey
Reported: Oct 19-22 (Ilya Povalyaev,
m.obs)
Location: Up to 3 being seen at the foot of 96th St. Also seen at the foot
of 104th St at Boundary Bay. Previously seen between 80 and 88th St. -
Delta
Reported: Aug 27-Oct 19 (Kevin Louth and Mike Toochin et al.,
m.obs)
|
| American Golden-Plover in Delta -Photo: Craig Huish |
Rock Sandpiper (1)
Location: Viewed by boat
HERE on Fraser
River - Delta
Reported: Oct 21 (Guy Monty)
Yellow-headed Blackbird (1 male)
Location:
HERE near
Brunswick Point - Delta
Reported: Oct 21 (Mike Tabak)
RBA: WHITE-FACED IBIS (1)
Location: Flying north (didn’t stop) over the foot of 72nd St at Boundary
Bay - Delta
Reported: Oct 19 (Rob McLean et al.)
|
| White-faced Ibis in Delta - Photo: Justine Charollais |
Swamp Sparrow (1)
Location: Edge of Devonian Pond near Stanley Park - Vancouver
Reported:
Oct 18 (Joe Denham)
California Scrub-Jay (3)
Location: 1 at 9329 University Cres. at SFU - Burnaby
Reported: Oct
14-18 (Neil and Andrea MacLeod)
Location: 1 last seen at 7901 114A St. Previously seen at 7833 Swanson Ave -
Delta
Reported: Aug 4-Oct 6 (Phil Kelly)
Location: 1 at 11528-80th Ave - Delta
Reported: Oct 4 (Marylou Johnson)
|
| California Scrub-Jay in Burnaby - Photo: Neil MacLeod |
Mountain Bluebird (2)
Location:
HERE on Spanish
Banks beach - Vancouver
Reported: Oct 16-17 (Ezequiel Peralta)
|
| 1 of 2 Mountain Bluebirds in Vancouver - Photo: Ezequiel Peralta |
Brown Pelicans (4-5 juvs)
Location: Up to 3 Sitting on large wooden round barrel structure beside
breakwater at ferry terminal near berths - Tsawwassen
Reported: Aug
19-Oct 16 (Kevin Louth, m.obs)
Location: 1 viewed off the marina at Harrison Lake - Harrison Hot Springs
Reported:
Oct 6 (John Gordon, m.obs)
Location: 1 sitting at the end of Sand Heads Jetty (viewed by boat) -
Richmond
Reported: Oct 1-3 (Andy Scheffler)
|
| Brown Pelican in Delta - Photo: Simon Shutter |
SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER (2)
Location: 1 at the foot of 88th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported:
Oct 12-14 (Kevin Louth)
Location: 1 in the House Pond at Reifel - Delta
Reported: Oct 12-13
(Kris Mirski, m.obs)
|
| Sharp-tailed Sandpiper in Delta - Photo: Craig Huish |
Gray Catbird (1)
Location:
HERE near Derek
Doubleday Arboretum - Langley
Reported: Oct 13 (Dan Tyson)
RBA: RUFF (1 juv male)
Location: Between 96th St and the pilings at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported:
Oct 5-10 (Sabine Decamp, m.obs)
|
| Ruff in Delta - Photo: Sabine Decamp |
RBA: BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE (1 adult)
Location: Viewed from aboard the Tsawwassen to Nanaimo Ferry. Bird was
flying near the Coal Port - Delta
Reported: Oct 9 (Guy Monty)
Brown Pelican (1 adult in breeding)
Location: Flying south past Sullivan Point at Crescent Beach - Surrey
Reported:
Oct 9 (Frank Lin, m.obs)
|
| Adult Brown Pelican in Surrey - Photo: Frank Lin |
Nashville Warbler (1)
Location: Hope Airport
Reported: Oct 9 (Daniel Bastaja)
|
| Nashville Warbler in Hope - Photo: Daniel Bastaja |
Mountain Bluebird (1 male)
Location: Last seen on the base of the spit near the parking lot. First seen
by the mound near the dog park at Blackie Spit Park - Surrey
Reported:
Oct 7-8 (Zach Westfall, m.obs)
|
| Mountain Bluebird in Surrey - Photo: Zach Westfall |
American White Pelicans
Location: Up to 38 seen sitting on the mudflats at Brunswick Point near the
second benches (view by scope) - Delta
Reported: July 15-Oct 8 (Melissa
Gee, m.obs)
Location: 11 flying south over the ferry jetty heading to the US - Delta
Reported:
Oct 4 (Joe Denham, m.obs)
Location: 1 on the Pitt River viewed from the dyke at the end of Harris Rd -
Pitt Meadows
Reported: Oct 1 (Cindy and Doug Martin)
|
| American White Pelicans in Delta - Photo: Simon Shutter |
Horned Lark (1)
Location: Harrison Lagoon - Harrison Hot Springs
Reported: Oct 8 (Neal
Doan)
WHITE-FACED IBIS (1)
Location:
HERE
in field - Rosedale
Reported: Oct 7 (Bentley Colwill)
HUDSONIAN GODWIT (1 juv)
Location: Last seen in house pond at Reifel. Also seen in Fuller’s Slough -
Delta
Reported: Sept 30-Oct 4 (Debbie Hlady, m.obs)
|
| Hudsonian Godwit in Delta - Photo: Mike Fung |
Great Egret (4)
Location: 1 on private property on Seabird Island - Agassiz
Reported:
Oct 4 (Brant Corder)
Location: 1 last seen on Bell Rd north of Fore Rd. Previously on Beharrell
Road, across from the DND property near the T-junction at Fore Road -
Abbotsford
Reported: Sept 30-Oct 3 (Anne Toews, m.obs)
Location: 2 in Maria Slough
HERE just
downstream (south) of the highway in front of Scott's Meats - Agassiz
Reported:
Sept 28 (Murray Brown)
LEWIS’S WOODPECKER (1)
Location: Last seen hawking insects from tree
HERE. Previously seen
HERE
on cedar near Lumberman’s Arch at Stanley Park - Vancouver
Reported:
Oct 3 (Ben and Alexa Freeman, m.obs)
|
| Lewis’s Woodpecker in Vancouver - Photo: Andrew Boycott |
SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPERS (juvs)
Location: 1 in house pond at Reifel - Delta
Reported: Sept 30-Oct 1
(Kathleen Fry, m.obs)
Location: 2 briefly seen in house pond at Reifel - Delta
Reported: Sept
25 (Brian Self and Ben Lambert)
Location: 1 briefly in the NE inner pond before flying out to the foreshore
at Iona - Richmond
Reported: Sept 19 (Ilya Povalyaev)
|
| Sharp-tailed Sandpiper in Richmond - Photo: Ilya Povalyaev |
RED PHALAROPE (1)
Location: On Cultus Lake viewed from the Jade Bay boat launch
HERE -
Chilliwack
Reported: Oct 1 (Gord Gadsden, m.obs)
WHITE-FACED IBIS (1) *not open to public*
Location: Private farm - Chilliwack
Reported: Sept 27-Oct 1 (fide
Gord Gadsden)
Lapland Longspurs
Location: 3
HERE at Garry
Point Park - Richmond
Reported: Oct 1 (Yousif Attia)
Location: 25 in seaweed at the high tide line at the 80th St Pumphouse at
Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported: Sept 28 (Kevin Louth)
Location: 1
HERE at
Centennial Beach - Tsawwassen
Reported: Sept 25 (Nick Parayko)
Location: 1 at the end of the spit at Blackie Spit Park - Surrey
Reported:
Sept 19-24 (Noreen Rudd, m.obs)
Location: 1 flying over Deas Island - Delta
Reported: Sep 23 (Guy
Monty)
Location: 2 at marker 73 also 1 seen at marker 180 and 6 at the end of the
south jetty at Iona - Richmond
Reported: Sept 16-22 (Bridget Spencer,
Liam Irwin, m.obs)
Location: 1 on Tsawwassen First Nations Dyke Trail halfway between Roberts
Bank and the Ferry Jetty - Delta
Reported: Sept 16 (Kevin Louth)
|
| Lapland Longspur in Richmond - Photo: Bridget Spencer |
Western Grebe X Clark's Grebe (1)
Location: Piper Spit at Burnaby Lake - Burnaby
Reported: Sept 30 (Darko
Bojanic)
|
| Clark's x Western Grebe in Burnaby - Photo: Darko Bojanic |
Yellow-headed Blackbird (1)
Location: Foot of 96th St - Delta
Reported: Sept 30 (Kevin Louth)
Horned Larks
Location: 3 on the north side of the ferry jetty near the taxi pullout -
Tsawwassen
Reported: Sept 16-28 (Kevin Louth, m.obs)
Location: 1 flying over maarker 160 on the south jetty at Iona - Richmond
Reported:
Sept 24 (Evan Larson)
Location: 4 at Harrison Lagoon - Harrison Hot Springs
Reported: Sept 16
(John Gordon)
Location: 3 at the end of the spit at Blackie Spit Park - Surrey
Reported:
Sept 13 (Raymond Ng)
Location: 1 on the south side of the ferry jetty across the from taxi
pullout - Tsawwassen
Reported: Sept 12 (Yousif Attia)
Location: 4 seen in field between 88th St and the pumphouse at Boundary Bay
- Delta
Reported: Aug 31-Sept 5 (Kevin Louth, m.obs)
Location: 1 flying over pilings at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported: Sept
5 (Ilya Povalyaev, Melissa Hafting, Rob Lyske)
Location: 1 feeding on seaweed at the end of the spit at Blackie Spit Park -
Surrey
Reported: Sept 3 (Roger Foxall)
Location: 3 flying over Mystery Peak on Mt. Seymour - North Van
Reported:
Sept 1 (Melissa Hafting)
|
| Horned Lark in Surrey - Photo: Andrew Boycott |
California Scrub-Jay (3)
Location: 2 seen in the 12000 block of Dover St and also seen on 220th St
near Dewdney Trunk and seen
HERE on Acadia
St. - Maple Ridge
Reported: Sept 7-25 (Steve Juhasz, m.obs)
Location: 1 on Bond Blvd near 64a Ave. Also seen on Lincoln Dr near 64a Ave.
- Delta
Reported: Sept 13-16 (Scott Moloney, m.obs)
|
| California Scrub-Jay in Maple Ridge - Photo: Farshad Pourmalek |
Northern Waterthrush (1)
Location: 75m along in slough off center dyke, south from the tower at
Reifel - Delta
Reported: Sept 25 (Mike and Sharon Toochin)
RBA: BLACK PHOEBE (1)
Location:
HERE at McDonald
Park - Abbotsford
Reported: Sept 10-24 (Susan Fennellow, m.obs)
|
| Black Phoebe in Abbotsford - Photo: Neal Doan |
Lewis’s Woodpecker (2)
Location: West end of Hope Airport by blue barn - Hope
Reported: Sept
13-24 (Gord Gadsden and Jack Delair, m.obs)
|
| Lewis's Woodpecker in Hope - Photo: John Gordon |
American Golden-Plovers (4)
Location: 2 on rock jetty between Shady Island and Alaksen viewed by boat -
Richmond
Reported: Sept 24 (Guy Monty)
Location: 2 on the beach in front of washrooms at Iona - Richmond
Reported:
Sept 20 (Yousif Attia)
SABINE'S GULL (2 adult)
Location: 1 flying over Buntzen Lake (seen from recreation area) - Anmore
Reported:
Sept 22 (Sheryl Marx)
Location: 1 flying over Harrison Lake - Harrison Hot Springs
Reported:
Sept 18-21 (Jonathan Pap, m.obs)
|
| Sabine's Gull in Anmore - Photo: Sheryl Marx |
RBA: BLACK-NECKED STILT (1 Imm.)
Location: Last seen in the house pond. Previously south of the centre dyke
blind in the west field. Previously in the SW pond at Reifel - Delta
Reported:
Sept 9-20 (Kathleen Fry, m.obs)
|
| Black-necked Stilt in Delta - Photo: Ben Lambert |
Wandering Tattlers
Location: 1 on Grebe Islets scoped from Kloochman Park - West Vancouver
Reported:
Sept 16 (Ken Willis)
Location: 1 on Bird Islet scoped from Whytecliff Park - West Vancouver
Reported:
Sept 14 (Anthony Kaduck)
Red-necked Phalaropes
Location: 1 in the pond at the mansion at 64th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported:
Sept 15-16 (Debbie Hlady, m.obs)
Location: 1 at the foot of 96th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported:
Sept 13 (Yousif Attia and Roger Foxall)
Northern Waterthrush
Location: 1
HERE in Old Mill
Site Park - Port Moody
Reported: Sept 15 (Sergii Kaminskyi)
Location: 1 bird last seen
HERE. 1 previously seen
HERE and seen 50
m from the warming hut at Reifel - Delta
Reported: Aug 31-Sept 12
(Geoffrey Newell et al., m.obs)
Location: 1
HERE
on the Loop Trail at Cheam Lake Wetlands - Rosedale
Reported: Sept 6-7
(Marc Sole, m.obs)
Location: 2
HERE at the SW
corner of Trout Lake just east of the small east dock on dog beach -
Vancouver
Reported: Aug 12-Sept 6 (Edward Nygren and Kathleen Oliver,
m.obs)
Location: 2
HERE at Musqueam
Park - Vancouver
Reported: Aug 15-Sept 2 (Kaichi Huang, m.obs)
|
| Northern Waterthrush in Delta - Photo: Melissa Hafting |
Vesper Sparrow (1)
Location: In field at west end Hope Airport - Hope
Reported: Sept 15
(Larry Hooge and Joel Schmidt)
Sabine’s Gull (1 adult)
Location: by boat launch at Island 22 -Chilliwack
Reported: Sept 14
(Gord Gadsden)
Stilt Sandpipers
Location: 2 in NE and NW inner pond at Iona - Richmond
Reported: Aug
19-Sept 12 (Mayumi Shibata, m.obs)
Location: 1 at Beach Grove lagoon - Tsawwassen
Reported: Sept 8-9
(Kevin Louth, m.obs)
|
| Stilt Sandpiper in Richmond - Photo: Melissa Hafting |
Solitary Sandpipers
Location: 1
HERE on the east
dyke at Reifel - Delta
Reported: Sept 11-12 (Ilya Povalyaev et al),
m.obs)
Location: 1 in the beaver pond on the south side of Thompson Regional Park -
Chilliwack
Reported: Sept 11 (Gord Gadsden)
Location: 1 in the NE inner pond at Iona - Richmond
Reported: Aug
24-Sept 9 (Liron Gerstman, m.obs)
Location:
HERE at
Pitt-Addington Marsh - Pitt Meadows
Reported: Sept 1 (Doug Martin)
|
| Solitary Sandpiper in Delta - Photo: Bridget Spencer |
American Avocet (1 in non-breeding)
Location:
HERE in the pond
at Vanier Park - Vancouver
Reported: Sept 10-11 (Paul Clarke, m.obs)
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| American Avocet in Vancouver - Paul Clarke |
RBA: SHORT-TAILED SHEARWATER (2)
Location: Last seen by ferry (to Duke Point)
HERE. Previously seen by scoping toward the rock jetty on the south side near
the ferry berths. Previously seen
HERE by
boat/ferry (to Duke Point) also seen scoping towards blue tanker
HERE with words
“MOL” from the taxi pullout. Previously seen by scope sitting on the water
by berth 2. First seen by boat
HERE near Coal
Port Jetty - Delta
Reported: Sept 4-11 (Christopher Di Corrado and
William O’Shea, m.obs)
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| Short-tailed Shearwater in Delta - Photo: Melissa Hafting |
Western Kingbird (1)
Location: Last seen by the Purple Martin boxes at Blackie Spit Park -
Surrey
Reported: Sept 9 (Carolee Colter and Paul Prappas, m.obs)
Franklin’s Gull (1 juv)
Location: Last seen from inside ferry terminal in gull flock in between
terminal berths - Tsawwassen
Reported: Aug 31-Sept 8 (Kaichi Huang,
m.obs)
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| Franklin's Gull in Tsawwassen - Photo: Kaichi Huang |
Heermann's Gull (1 juv)
Location: Sitting on the ferry jetty breakwater (south side near berths)
-Tsawwassen
Reported: Sept 8 (Kevin Louth)
SABINE’S GULLS
Location: 1 juv seen by scope in the channel at the west end of Maplewood
Flats (viewed from East Beach and the bridge) before flying towards the
Second Narrows bridge - North Van
Reported: Sept 7 (Rob Lyske, m.obs)
Location: 1 adult viewed by boat as it flew over Sand Heads Jetty -
Richmond
Reported: Sept 1 (Sabine Decamp)
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| Sabine’s Gull in Richmond - Photo: Sabine Decamp |
Least Flycatcher (1)
Location:
HERE at Stanley
Park - Vancouver
Reported: Sept 6 (Frank Lin)
|
| Least Flycatcher in Vancouver - Photo: Frank Lin |
Redhead (1)
Location: Cheam Lake Wetlands - Rosedale
Reported: Sept 6 (Jonathan
Pap)
RBA: LONG-TAILED JAEGER (1 juv)
Location: Flying over the ferry jetty breakwater - Tsawwassen
Reported:
Sept 5 (Ilya Povalyaev et al., m.obs)
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| Long-tailed Jaeger in Delta - Photo: Ilya Povalyaev |
RBA: POMARINE JAEGER (1 adult)
Location: Viewed by boat flying south off the end of the south jetty at Iona
- Richmond
Reported: Sept 5 (Christopher Di Corrado)
HHUDSONIAN GODWIT (1)
Location: Last seen by scoping south (600m out) from the end of the S Jetty
at Iona. Previously seen at the end of the N Jetty at Iona - Richmond
Reported:
Aug 30 (Brendan Toews) to Sept 5 (Yousif Attia)
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| Hudsonian Godwit in Richmond - Photo: Brendan Toews |
Vesper Sparrows
Location: 1 bird 50 m past yellow gate that leads to banding station off
Shaughnessy St entrance on the pumphouse trail at Colony Farm - Coquitlam
Reported:
Sept 5 (Mike Farnworth, m.obs)
Location: 1
HERE on the
Fraser River Trail - Vancouver
Reported: Sept 1 (Bridget Spencer)
Location: 1
HERE on
Pitt-Addington Marsh dyke at Pitt Meadows
Reported: Aug 29-30 (Cole
Gaerber, m.obs)
|
| Vesper Sparrow in Vancouver - Photo: Bridget Spencer |
Tundra Swan (1)
Location:
HERE at
Serpentine Fen - Surrey
Reported: Sept 4 (Kate Paton)
|
| Tundra Swan in Surrey - Photo: Kate Paton |
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (1 juv)
Location: At pilings between 96-104th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported:
Sept 3 (Kevin Louth)
|
| Sharp-tailed Sandpiper in Delta - Photo: Kevin Louth |
Yellow-breasted Chat (1) *not open to public*
Location: Private Home - Coquitlam
Reported: Sept 2 (Moose Stoffregen)
|
| Yellow-breasted Chat in Coquitlam - Photo: Moose Stoffregen |
SABINE'S GULL (2 adults)
Location:
HERE viewed off
boat - Delta
Reported: Oct 14 (Tasli Shaw)
Red-necked Phalaropes
Location: 2 in NW and NE inner pond at Iona - Richmond
Reported: Aug
18-Sept 2 (Keith Riding, m.obs)
Brown Pelicans
Location: 1 viewed by boat
HERE sitting on
Harrison Lake - Harrison Hot Springs
Reported: Aug 31 (Lance Vanbasten)
Location: 1 off the end of the south jetty at Iona - Richmond
Reported:
Aug 22 (Bridget Spencer)
Pacific Golden-Plover (1)
Location: 1 adult last seen at the foot of 104th St also seen at 96th St at
Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported: Aug 15-31 (Mike and Sharon Toochin,
m.obs)
|
| Pacific Golden-Plover in Delta - Photo: Sabine Decamp |
Heermann's Gull (1)
Location: Viewed while aboard ferry sitting near to the terminal berths (not
visible from outside terminal) - Tsawwassen
Reported: Aug 31 (G.
Newell)
Long-billed Curlew (1)
Location: Private Farm Field - Burnaby
Reported: Aug 28-31 (Glen
Govier)
Stilt Sandpipers
Location: 7 in west field and also seen in the SW pond at Reifel -
Delta
Reported: Aug 13-30 (Simon Shutter, m.obs)
Location: 1 on dyke trail in
front of Tsawwassen First Nations reserve - Delta
Reported: Aug 20
(Carlo Giovanella)
Location: 1 at pilings near 96th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported:
Aug 17 (Kaichi Huang, m.obs)
Lewis’s Woodpecker (1)
Location: South side of Hope Airport
Reported: Aug 25-29 (Gord Gadsden,
m.obs)
Red-necked Phalaropes
Location: 5 between 96-104th St and seen at the mansion near 96th St at
Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported: Aug 17-28 (Sabine Decamp at al., m.obs)
Location: Up to 29
HERE in pond and
also seen in main pond by the mansion near 64th St at Boundary Bay -
Delta
Reported: Aug 6-27 (Liz Stewart, m.obs)
Location: 11 in the west field at Reifel - Delta
Reported: Aug 12-25
(Cam Montgomery, m.obs)
Location: 2 at Harrison Lagoon - Harrison Hot Springs
Reported: Aug
20-24 (John Gordon, m.obs)
Location: 2 at the north end of Sardis Pond - Chilliwack
Reported: Aug
21-23 (Jonathan Pap, m.obs)
Location: 1 at Maplewood Flats - North Van
Reported: Aug 22 (Rob Lyske)
Location: 2 at Willband Creek Park - Abbotsford
Reported: Aug 21 (Len
Jellicoe)
Location: 1 by the boardwalk at Shoreline Park - Port Moody
Reported:
Aug 21 (Moose Stoffregen)
Location: 1
HERE
at the Great Blue Heron Reserve - Chilliwack
Reported: Aug 20 (Janet
Pollock et al. m.obs)
Clay-colored Sparrow (1)
Location: Between the NW and Sw inner pond at Iona - Richmond
Reported:
Aug 27 (Mike Toochin, m.obs)
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| Clay-colored Sparrow in Richmond - Photo: Melissa Hafting |
Least Flycatcher (1)
Location: On bush
HERE in the inner
pond at Iona - Richmond
Reported: Aug 27 (Kathryn Milligan)
|
| Least Flycatcher in Richmond - Photo: Kathryn Milligan |
Solitary Sandpipers
Location: 1
HERE at Jackman
Wetlands - Langley
Reported: Aug 27 (Moose Stoffregen)
Location: 1 at Tilbury Island - Delta
Reported: Aug 27 (Guy Monty)
Location: 1
HERE on the
Nicomekl River - Surrey
Reported: Aug 25 (Danny Tyson)
Location: 2 at Cheam Lake - Rosedale
Reported: Aug 21 (Paul Foth)
Northern Waterthrushes
Location: 1
HERE at Jericho
Park - Vancouver
Reported: Aug 26 (Evan Larson)
Location: 1
HERE
at west pond also seen at East Beach at Maplewood Flats - North Van
Reported:
Aug 18-25 (Kevin Bell, m.obs)
Location: 1 in ditch
HERE on Fraser
River Trail near Musqueam Golf Course - Vancouver
Reported: Aug 15-24
(Bridget Spencer)
Location: 1, 150 m east of the Eagle Creek bridge near the Piper Spit
entrance (also seen at the boardwalk) at Burnaby Lake - Burnaby
Reported: Aug
22-24 (Istvan Orosi, m.obs)
Location: 2 at the SW corner of Lost Lagoon at Ceperley Creek in Stanley
Park - Vancouver
Reported: Aug 21-23 (Anne Toewes, m.obs)
Location: 2
HERE at
Serpentine Fen - Surrey
Reported: Aug 21 (Alison Evely)
Location: 1
HERE at Beaver
Lake at Stanley Park -Vancouver
Reported: Aug 18-21 (Donal O’Keeffe, m.obs)
Location: 1 by the small pond at Hastings Park - Vancouver
Reported: Aug 21
(Miki Eslake)
Location: 1
HERE near the
aquarium (north of the Alcan Salmon Pool) at Stanley Park -
Vancouver
Reported: Aug 20-21 (Frank Lin, m.obs)
Location: 1 at
HERE at Reifel -
Delta
Reported: Aug 19 (Liron Gertsman)
Location: 1
HERE at North
Creek Duck Pond - Surrey
Reported: Aug 18 (Andrew Boycott)
Location: 1 at private home - Burnaby
Reported: Aug 13 (Bryan Stephens)
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| Northern Waterthrush in Burnaby - Photo: Bryan Stephens |
RBA: WHITE-THROATED SWIFT (1)
Location: flying over bridge at Maplewood Flats - North Van
Reported:
Aug 25 (Rob Lyske)
UPLAND SANDPIPER (1)
Location: In field on the south side of Chilliwack Central Rd just east of
Annis Rd - Chilliwack
Reported: Aug 25 (Klaus Molthagen)
Heermann’s Gull (1) *viewed by boat*
Location: Sitting on rocks at Sand Heads Jetty - Richmond
Reported: Aug
25 (Ilya Povalyaev, Melissa Hafting, Bridget Spencer)
|
| Heermann's Gull in Richmond - Photo: Bridget Spencer |
Ruddy Turnstone (3)
Location: 2 on the south side of the ferry jetty near the ferry berths -
Tsawwassen
Reported: Aug 25 (Wayne Weber)
Location: 2 on the mudflats between 96th St and 104th St at Boundary Bay -
Delta
Reported: Aug 13-25 (Melissa Hafting, m.obs)
Location: 1 adult in breeding at 104th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported:
Aug 12 (Roger Foxall)
Clay-colored Sparrow (1) *not open to public*
Location: Private Home - Coquitlam
Reported: Aug 24 (Moose Stoffregen)
|
| Clay-colored Sparrow in Coquitlam - Photo: Moose Stoffregen |
Long-billed Curlew (1) *Note there is no legal parking on this road. Please do not block traffic or farm equipment and respect farmland*
Location: Viewed by scope in field
HERE on 88th St -
Delta
Reported: Aug 23-24 (Yousif Attia, m.obs)
RBA: RED PHALAROPE (1) *Late report*
Location: Viewed by boat
HERE in Burrard
Inlet - Vancouver
Reported: Aug 19 (Mike Klotz)
|
| Red Phalarope in Vancouver - Photo: Mike Klotz |
Wilson’s Phalarope
Location: 1 at the NE inner pond also seen in the outflow pond at Iona -
Richond
Reported: Aug 21 (Mike Toochin, m.obs)
Parasitic Jaeger (1)
Location: Viewed from boat near Passsage Island - West Vancouver
Reported:
Aug 20 (Yousif Attia)
Solitary Sandpiper (2)
Location: West pond at Maplewood Flats - North Van
Reported: Aug 20
(Rob Lyske, m.obs)
Tennessee Warbler (1 immature)
Location: Private Home near Deering Island - Vancouver
Reported: Aug 19
(Mike Toochin)
MAGNOLIA WARBLER (1)
Location: near the horse pond in the west end of the equestrian area at
Island 22 - Chilliwack
Reported: Aug 19 (Gord Gadsden)
House Wren (1)
Location: 1 in front of farmhouse at Brunswick Point - Delta
Reported:
May 13-Aug 19 (Ilya Povalyaev, m.obs)
Heermann’s Gulls *Best viewed by scope*
Location: 2 on pilings at Gilbert Beach - Richmond
Reported: Aug 18
(Daniel Poon)
Location: 1 on the ferry jetty before flying off behind the ferry berths and
then toward Point Roberts - Tsawwassen
Reported: Aug 16 (Kevin Louth,
m.obs)
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| 1 of 2 Heermann's Gulls in Richmond - Photo: Daniel Poon |
Long-billed Curlew (1 flyover)
Location: Flew over pilings high up and north over fields at Boundary Bay -
Delta
Reported: Aug 18 (Yousif Attia, m.obs)
Willet (1)
Location: 104th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported: Aug 15-17 (Mike
and Sharon Toochin)
Wandering Tattler (1)
Location: Seen on the south side on the south jetty at Iona between marker
126-160 - Richmond
Reported: Aug 11-12 (Tak Shibata)
|
| Wandering Tattler in Richmond - Photo: Tak Shibata |
Pacific Golden-Plover (1)
Location: 1 seen on the south side on the south jetty at Iona between marker
126-160 - Richmond
Reported: Aug 12 (Tak Shibata)
|
| Pacific Golden-Plover in Richmond - Photo: Tak Shibata |
Franklin's Gull (2 immature)
Location: At Pitt Lake
HERE near the
first Osprey nest off the dyke at Grant Narrows - Pitt Meadows
Reported:
Aug 10-11 (Freda du Plessis, m.obs)
|
| 2 Franklin’s Gulls in Pitt Meadows - Photo: James Park |
White-winged Crossbill (1)
Location: Flying west over Godwin Farm Biodiversity Preserve - Surrey
Reported:
Aug 11 (Dan Tyson)
RBA: BLACK PHOEBE (1)
Location: Last seen west of the viewing platform near the picnic area. The
bird has also been seen north of here near the creek outflow. It was first
found
HERE
at Cheam Lake Wetlands - Rosedale
Reported: Aug 7-10 (Marc Sole and
Catherine Denny, m.obs)
|
| Black Phoebe in Rosedale - Photo: Marc Sole |
American White Pelican (1)
Location: 1 seen flying south along the marsh out from the dyke at the foot
of Westminster Hwy - Richmond
Reported: Aug 10 (Brian Avent)
Wilson’s Phalarope (5)
Location: Up to 3 in west field near the tower at Reifel-Delta
Reported:
July 31-Aug 10 (Brian Self, m.obs)
Location: 1 in pond near the mansion at 64th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported:
Aug 6-7 (Liz Stewart, m.obs)
Location: 1
HERE in pond at
Elgin Park - Surrey
Reported: Aug 6 (Roger Foxall, m.obs)
Location: 1
HERE and also
seen in the farm slough at Blackie Spit - Surrey
Reported: July 31-Aug
2 (Martin Gebauer, m.obs)
Location: 1 at the base of the ferry jetty on the north side - Tsawwassen
Reported:
July 19 (Kevin Louth)
|
| Wilson’s Phalarope in Surrey - Photo: James Park |
HUDSONIAN GODWIT (3 - 1 adult and 2 juvs seen Aug 8 and 1 bird present Aug 9)
Location: On the mudflats with a Marbled Godwit between 104th St and pilings
at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported: Aug 8-9 (Ilya Povalyaev and Melissa
Hafting, m.obs)
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| 1 of 3 Hudsonian Godwits in Delta - Photo: Ilya Povalyaev |
Red-necked Phalaropes
Location: 6 at the foot of 104th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported:
Aug 9 (Kathryn Milligan, m.obs)
Location: 4 briefly seen at the pilings near 96th St at Boundary Bay -
Delta
Reported: Aug 7 (Mike and Sharon Toochin)
Long-billed Curlew (1 juv) *Please note the Iona inner ponds are subject to random closures and are not always open to birders*
Location: NE inner pond at Iona - Richmond
Reported: Aug 8 (Cos van
Wermeskerken)
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| Long-billed Curlew in Richmond - Photo: Cos van Wermeskerken |
Heermann’s Gull (1 adult)
Location: Sitting on rocks at Ferguson Point at Stanley Park - Vancouver
Reported:
August 6 (Hervé Tremblay)
Western Kingbird (1)
Location:
HERE at Sturgeon
Slough - Pitt Meadows
Reported: Aug 6 (James Park)
|
| Western Kingbird in Pitt Meadows - Photo: James Park |
Yellow-breasted Chat (At least 3 - confirmed breeding - fledgling and adult photographed) *Please do not use playback on this endangered species*
Location: On the Pitt River dyke at the south edge of Swaneset Golf Course -
Pitt Meadows HERE
Reported: May 25-June Aug 5 (Dan Tyson, m.obs)
|
| Adult and Juvenile Yellow-breasted Chat in Pitt Meadows (significant breeding record for Metro Van) - Photo: Ilya Povalyaev |
Wandering Tattler (1) *viewable by boat only*
Location: South end of Passage Island - West Vancouver
Reported: July
29-Aug 3 (Ken Wright)
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| Wandering Tattler in West Van - Photo: Ken Wright |
Solitary Sandpiper (3)
Location: 1 viewed by kayak
HERE
in Wigeon Creek - Pitt Meadows
Reported: Aug 2 (Paul Dawson)
Location: 1
HERE at the pond
at Jericho Park - Vancouver
Reported: Aug 1 (Kevin Krebs)
Location: 1 off the Loop Trail 50 m from the parking lot at Cheam Wetlands -
Agassiz
Reported: July 30-31 (Gord Gadsden)
House Wren (4)
Location: 1
HERE at Iona -
Richmond
Reported: Aug 1 (Liron Gertsman)
Location: 1
HERE on the
Powerline Trail - North Van
Reported: July 22-23 (James Park)
Location: 1
HERE
at UBC Farm - Vancouver
Reported: July 18 (Ian Burgess)
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| House Wren in North Van - Photo: James Park |
Trumpeter Swan (1, viewable by boat)
Location:
HERE in Indian
Arm
Reported: Aug 1 (Cameron Montgomery)
INDIGO BUNTING (1 male)
Location:
HERE at Colony
Farm - Coquitlam
Reported: July 21-30 (Graham Sunderland, m.obs)
|
| Indigo Bunting in Coquitlam - Photo: Melissa Hafting |
Redhead (3 males)
Location:
HERE off Iona
causeway - Richmond
Reported: July 29 (Ian Burgess)
|
| Redheads in Richmond - Photo: Ian Burgess |
Northern Mockingbird (1)
Location: Hope Airport
Reported: July 29 (Ken Davis)
Hudsonian Godwit (1 adult in breeding)
Location: Seen resting at the end of the spit at Blackie Spit Park -
Surrey
Reported: July 22 (Matthew Stockinger)
|
| Hudsonian Godwit in Surrey - Photo: Matthew Stockinger |
Yellow-breasted Chat (1)
Location: On the west side of Rannie Rd, 150 m south of the right angle turn
where Rannie Rd hits the Pitt River Dyke and turns sharply to the east -
Pitt Meadows
Reported: July 17 (Wayne Weber)
Long-billed Curlew (1 juvenile, scope needed)
Location: Off the Iona causeway
HERE -
Richmond
Reported: July 16 (Yousif Attia, m.obs)
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| Long-billed Curlew in Richmond - Photo: Yousif Attia |
COSTA'S HUMMINGBIRD (1 adult female) *late report*
Location: At the feeder near the gift shop/house pond at Reifel - Ladner
Reported:
June 12 (Mark Rubensohn)
|
| Female Costa’s Hummingbird in Delta - Photo: Mark Rubensohn |
Western Kingbird (1)
Location: Briefly on N Jetty at Iona near active construction area -
Richmond
Reported: July 15 (Brian Avent)
American White Pelican (51)
Location: Flying south over Crescent Beach; Surrey
Reported: July 11
(Martin Gebauer)
Western Kingbird (1)
Location:
HERE at Colony
Farm - Coquitlam
Reported: July 7 (Devon Yu)
American Avocet (1)
Location: Vanier Park Pond - Vancouver
Reported: July 7 (Sara Harris,
m.obs)
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| American Avocet in Vancouver - Photo: Sara Harris |
Least Flycatcher (1)
Location: 1 last seen on the Peach Creek Rotary Trail just SE of GBHR.
Previously seen on the Tower Trail at Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve -
ChilliwackDirections: Take a left off the central trail onto the Tower Trail
and the bird was by the first boardwalk.
Reported: June 14-July 7
(Jamie Gadsden, m.obs)
Western Kingbird (1)
Location: Viewed from viewing platform at McCartney Creek off Dollarton Hwy
at Maplewood Flats - North Van
Reported: July 5 (Sue Flecker)
|
| Western Kingbird in North Van - Photo: Sue Flecker |
American White Pelican (22)
Location: Viewed by scope from end of spit at Blackie Spit Park - Surrey
Reported:
July 4-5 (Dominic Janus, m.obs)
Wilson’s Phalaropes
Location: Up to 2 in the West Field at Reifel - Delta
Reported: May
20-July 3 (David Hoar and Noreen Rudd, m.obs)
Location: 1 in front of second benches at Brunswick Point - Delta
Reported:
June 12 (Melissa Hafting and Ilya Povalyaev)
Least Flycatcher (1)
Location: 1 last seen
HERE previously
seen
HERE,
HERE,
HERE,
HERE
and HERE near the
Avalon entrance at Burnaby Lake - Burnaby
Reported: May 31-June 28
(Istvan Orosi, m.obs)
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| Least Flycatcher in Burnaby - Photo: Istvan Orosi |
House Wren (1)
Location: On swallow box #59 and #60 near washrooms at Reifel parking lot -
Delta
Reported: June 9-26 (Josh Brown, m.obs)
Tundra Swan (1)
Location: On island of main pond at Willband Creek Park - Abbotsford
Reported:
June 7-26 (John Gordon, m.obs)
|
| Tundra Swan in Abbotsford - Photo: Larry Hooge |
Great Egret (1)
Location: Last seen
HERE in the
Veddar Canal north of the Keith Wilson Bridge - Chilliwack
Reported:
June 19-23 (Ed Klassen, m.obs)
|
| Great Egret in Chilliwack - Photo: Wayne Diakow |
Western Kingbird (1)
Location: 1 last seen in field between Shaughnessy Rd and Millenium Bridge.
Previously seen
HERE on the field
on Colony Farm Rd also seen by duck pond at Colony Farm - Coquitlam
Reported:
June 16-21 (Larry Cowan, m.obs)
Townsend’s Solitaire (1)
Location: Upper Parking lot at Mt Seymour - North Vancouver
Reported:
June 21 (Harold Eyster)
Yellow-breasted Chat (1)
Location: 1
HERE at Willband
Creek Park - Abbotsford
Reported: June 14-20 (John Vooys, m.obs)
Black -crowned Night-Heron (1 adult and 1 immature) *rare for this time*
Location:
HERE at Sturgeon
Slough - Pitt Meadows
Reported: June 2-19 (Monica Nugent and Jim
Palmer, m.obs)
RBA: MAGNOLIA WARBLER (1 male)
Location:
HERE and
HERE on the NE
side of Trout Lake - Vancouver
Reported: June 18 (Edward Nygren, m.obs)
|
| Magnolia Warbler in Vancouver - Photo: Andrew Boycott |
INDIGO BUNTING X LAZULI BUNTING hybrid (1)
Location:
HERE on Harvie Rd
- Surrey
Reported: June 18 (Frank Lin)
|
| Indigo Bunting X Lazuli Bunting in Surrey - Photo: Frank Lin |
RBA: CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER (1 male)
Location:
HERE at Jericho
Park - Vancouver
Reported: June 17 (Evan Larson)
|
| Chestnut-sided Warbler in Vancouver - Photo: Evan Larson |
BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD (1 male)
Location: Private Home - Mt. Currie
Reported: June 17 (Daniel Eslake)
Western Kingbird (3)
Location: 1 on lone tree in field on the NW side of Deboville Slough trail -
Coquitlam
Reported: June 15 (Joe Denham)
Location: 1
HERE on Koerner
Rd - Pitt Meadows
Reported: June 12 (Mike Klotz, m.obs)
|
| Western Kingbirds in Pitt Meadows - Photo: Adam Dhalla |
Franklin’s Gull (1 adult) *scope required*
Location: Briefly seen with Bonaparte’s Gulls off the west side of White
Rock beach in a feeding frenzy offshore - White Rock
Reported: June 11
(Roger Foxall)
RBA: WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER (1) *scope required*
Location:
HERE off second
benches at Brunswick Point - Delta
Reported: June 7-8 (Melissa Hafting
and Ilya Povalyev, m.obs)
|
| White-rumped Sandpiper in Delta - Photo: Ilya Povalyaev |
RBA: HOODED ORIOLE (1 adult male) *NOT OPEN TO PUBLIC*
Location: Private Home - Bowen Island
Reported: June 8 (fide
Judith McBride)
|
| Hooded Oriole on Bowen Island - Photo: Judith McBride |
Clay-colored Sparrow (1)
Location:
HERE on Indian
River Rd -Squamish
Reported: June 8 (Josh Brown and Liron Gerstman)
Long-billed Curlew (1)
Location: Briefly off the second benches at Brunswick Point before flying
towards Coal Port - Delta
Reported: June 8 (Mike and Sharon Toochin)
LESSER GOLDFINCH (1 male)
Location: Landed briefly in tree
HERE on Harris Rd
then took off south - Pitt Meadows
Reported: June 6 (Yousif Attia)
Veery (1)
Location:
Here on dyke off
McDonald Rd - Aggasiz
Reported: June 3 (John Vooys)
American White Pelicans (33)
Location: Flying North over Terra Nova - Richmond
Reported: June 2
(Bruce Hogg)
Northern Mockingbird (1)
Location: In the northwest corner of west field opposite the tower on a tree
singing at Reifel - Delta
Reported: May 29-June 1 (Brian Self, m.obs)
|
| Northern Mockingbird in Delta - Photo: Kathleen Fry |
Western Kingbird (1)
Location: On the beach by the farmhouse and Canada Flag at Brunswick Point -
Delta
Reported: June 1 (Liz Stewart)
Franklin’s Gull (4 adults in breeding)
Location: Viewed by scope off second benches at Brunswick Point - Delta
Reported:
May 30 (Melissa Hafting and Ilya Povalyaev, m.obs)
Wilson’s Phalaropes
Location: 2 in mansion pond between 64-72nd St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported:
May 30 (Kathryn Milligan)
Location: 5 in SE inner pond at Iona - Richmond
Reported: May 23-30
(Jim Davie, m.obs)
Location: 4 in front of second benches at Brunswick Point - Delta
Reported:
May 23-24 (Mike Toochin et al., m.obs)
Location: 7
HERE
on 0 Ave - Langley
Reported: May 22 (Wim Vesseur, m.obs)
Location: 2 in small pond by parking lot at Brydon Lagoon - Langley
Reported:
May 21 (Cos van Wermeskerken, m.obs)
|
| Female Wilson's Phalarope in Langley - Photo: Cos van Wermeskerken |
Wandering Tattler (1)
Location: Between marker 136 and 2nd shelter on the South Jetty at Iona -
Richmond
Reported: May 28-29 (Tak Shibata, m.obs)
|
| Wandering Tattler in Richmond - Photo: Tak Shibata |
Western Kingbird (1)
Location:
HERE on YVR fence
on Ferguson Rd - Richmond
Reported: May 29 (Ben and Alexa Freeman,
m.obs)
Lapland Longspur (1)
Location: Marker 152 on the south jetty at Iona - Richmond
Reported:
May 28 (Mike Toochin, m.obs)
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| Lapland Longspur in Richmond - Photo: Mike Fung |
RBA: BLACK-THROATED SPARROW (1)
Location:
HERE and
HERE at the
community gardens at Colony Farm - Coquitlam
Reported: May 27-28 (David
Schutz, m.obs)
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| Black-throated Sparrow in Coquitlam - Photo: David Schutz |
American White Pelicans (28)
Location: Flying north from Island 22 Park - Chilliwack
Reported: May
28 (John Gordon)
Redhead (2)
Location: Trout Lake - Vancouver
Reported: May 27-28 (Jim Palmer,
m.obs)
Dusky Flycatchers (2)
Location: 1
HERE at Trout
Lake - Vancouver
Reported: May 28 (Dan Tyson)
Location: 1 briefly in inner ponds then flew towards outflow pond at Iona -
Richmond
Reported: May 27 (Cole Gaerber and Mike Toochin)
Say’s Phoebe (1)
Location:
HERE on Winnipeg
St - Squamish
Reported: May 28 (Jimmy Abbott)
Say’s Phoebe (1)
Location: Oliver’s Landing - Furry Creek
Reported: May 26 (Daniel
Eslake)
Pacific Golden-Plover (1) *Scope Required*
Location: In front of second benches at Brunswick Point - Delta
Reported:
May 23-24 (Yousif Attia, m.obs)
RBA: CURLEW SANDPIPER (1) *Scope Required*
Location: In front of second benches in Dunlin flock at Brunswick Point -
Delta
Reported: May 23 (Ilya Povalyaev, m.obs)
|
| Curlew Sandpiper in Delta - Photo: Ilya Povalyaev |
ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK (1 male)
Location: Hit a window at a private home - Vancouver
Reported: May 23
(Eric Kowalski)
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| Rose-breasted Grosbeak in Vancouver - Photo: Eric Kowalski |
SWAINSON’S HAWK (1)
Location: Flying east over Maplewood Flats - North Van
Reported: May 22
(Sue Flecker)
|
| Swainson’s Hawk in North Van - Photo: Sue Flecker |
Vesper Sparrow (1)
Location:
HERE on dyke at
Pitt-Addington Marsh - Pitt Meadows
Reported: May 22 (Doug Martin,
m.obs)
|
| Vesper Sparrow in Pitt Meadows - Photo: Rosemary Clapham |
American White Pelicans
Location: Flying south over Iona south jetty - Richmond
Reported: May
22 (Peter Lypkie)
Location: 26 last seen sitting on the water in front of the Iona washrooms.
First seen flying south over the Iona south jetty - Richmond
Reported:
May 20-21 (Wayne Diakow, m.obs)
Location: 30 flying north over Harrison Lake - Harrison Hot Springs
Reported:
May 20 (Debora Soutar)
Location: 50 flying north over Minnekhada Park - Coquitlam
Reported:
May 19 (Madalina Nedelcu)
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| American White Pelicans in Richmond - Photo: Andrew Boycott |
House Wrens
Location: 1 in the NE corner of community gardens at Colony Farm -
Coquitlam
Reported: May 22 (Mike and Sharon Toochin)
Location: 1 singing from
HERE along the
West Dyke Trail - Richmond
Reported: May 18 (Yousif Attia)
RBA: EASTERN PHOEBE (1)
Location: Seen
HERE and
HERE at Lost
Lagoon in Stanley Park - Vancouver
Reported: May 21 (Blake Noelte,
m.obs)
|
| Eastern Phoebe in Vancouver - Photo: Blake Noelte |
Western Kingbird (1)
Location: By the gate at Catbird Slough - Pitt Meadows
Reported: May 21
(Sharon and Mike Toochin)
Redheads
Location: 3 Brydon Lagoon - Langley
Reported: May 18-21 (Cos van
Wermeskerken)
Location: 2
HERE -
Squamish
Reported: May 15 (Chris Murrell)
Location: 4 scoped in front of second benches at Brunswick Point -Delta
Reported:
May 13 (Ilya Povalyaev)
Location: 1 at the pond at Vanier Park - Vancouver
Reported: May 6-13
(Stella Atkins and Sara Harris, m.obs)
Location: 13 viewed by scope off Crescent Beach at the end of Sullivan
Street - Surrey
Reported: May 6 (Ilya Povalyaev, m.obs)
|
| Redhead in Vancouver - photo: Evan Larsan |
Solitary Sandpiper (1, previously 2)
Location:
HERE (view from
blind off parking lot enter near Crab Shop) at Maplewood Flats - North
Vancouver
Reported: April 26-May 19 (Rob Lyske and Mark Stevens, m.obs)
Western Kingbirds (2)
Location: 1
HERE at Maplewood
Flats - North Van
Reported: May 18 (Rob Lyske)
Location: 1
HERE at Garibaldi
Springs Resort - Squamish
Reported: May 16-17 (Chris Murrell, m.obs)
Baird's Sandpiper (1)
Location: SE inner pond at Iona - Richmond
Reported: May 14-16 (Grant
Edwards)
Red Knots (4)
Location: scoped in front of second benches at Brunswick Point -Delta
Reported:
May 13-16 (Ilya Povalyaev)
American Redstart (1)
Location: Loop Trail at Cheam Lake - Rosedale
Reported: May 16 (Gord
Gadsden)
COSTA'S HUMMINGBIRD (1 male) *See Main Page**Home is now closed to the public*
Location: Private Home - Maple Ridge
Reported: May 13-16 (Freda du
Plessis, m.obs)
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| Costa's Hummingbird in Maple Ridge - Photo: Sabine Decamp |
SWAINSON’S HAWKS
Location: 1 first year light morph nw of 80 Avenue at Harvie Road. Last seen
drifting nw towards Tynehead Park - Surrey
Reported: May 14 (Dan Tyson)
Location: 1 Flying east over Blaney Bog - Maple Ridge
Reported: May 14
(Kaichi Huang but seen as well by Aidan Branch)
Location: 2 flying over the corner of McDermott and Campbell Rds -
Abbotsford
Reported: May 8 (Gord Gadsden)
|
| Swainson's Hawk in Maple Ridge - Photo: Kaichi Huang |
CLARK’S GREBE (1)
Location: Scoped from end of pier in Western Grebe flock at White Rock Pier
- White Rock
Reported: May 13 (Frank Lin, m.obs)Video of the bird can
be seen
HERE
Dusky Flycatcher (1)
Location:
HERE briefly at
Iona inner pond - Richmond
Reported: May 13 (Kaichi Huang)
|
| Dusky Flycatcher in Richmond - Photo: Kaichi Huang |
Pacific Golden-Plover (1)
Location: Turf farm on 72nd St - Delta
Reported: May 13 (Roger Foxall,
m.obs)
Solitary Sandpipers
Location: 3 in NE and SW inner pond at Iona - Richmond
Reported: April
24-May 14 (Melissa Hafting and Ilya Povalyaev, m.obs)
Location: 1
HERE at Jericho
Park - Vancouver
Reported: May 12 (Evan Larson)
Location: 1 at the south end of Trout Lake - Vancouver
Reported: May 8
(Edward Nygren)
Location: 1 at the pond at Memorial South Park - Vancouver
Reported:
May 1 -2 (Sabine Jessen and Ian Burgess)
Location: 2 at Gladwin Pond - Abbotsford
Reported: April 29 (Ed Klassen
and John Vooys)
Location: 1 at Bonson Rd Pond - Pitt Meadows
Reported: April 27 (Mario
Lam)
|
| Solitary Sandpiper in Pitt Meadows - Photo: Mario Lam |
Say's Phoebe (1)
Location:
HERE at Colony
Farm - Coquitlam
Reported: May 12 (Carol Turnbull)
|
| Say's Phoebe in Coquitlam - Photo: Carol Turnbull |
CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD (1 male and 1 female) *Please social distance and wear masks at this site*
Location: Seen
HERE at QE Park -
Vancouver
Reported: May 7-11 (Liron Gertsman, m.obs)
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| Male Calliope Hummingbird in Vancouver - Photo: Liron Gertsman |
Blue Jay (1)
Location: At the corner of Tyson Rd and Insley Avenue and seen at Dayton Rd
and Insley Ave and on Dover St - Chilliwack
Reported: May 9-11 (Emily
Hood, m.obs)
|
| Blue Jay in Chilliwack - Photo: Emily Hood |
Northern Goshawk (1)
Location: Flying over the peak of Elk Mtn. - Chilliwack
Reported: May
11 (Gord Gadsden)
Lewis’s Woodpecker (1)
Location:
HERE at Squamish
River Estuary
Reported: May 9 (B. Wilson, m.obs)
|
| Lewis’s Woodpecker in Squamish - Photo: Wayne Diakow |
Pacific Golden-Plover (1)
Location: End of South Jetty at Iona - Richmond
Reported: May 9 (Tak
Shibata)
|
| Pacific Golden-Plover in Richmond - Photo: Tak Shibata |
American White Pelicans (13-15)
Location: Scoped from second benches at Brunswick Point - Delta
Reported:
May 7-9 (Graham Sorenson, m.obs)
Dusky Flycatcher (2)
Location: 1
HERE on white
cherry trees at Paulik Park - Richmond
Reported: May 7-8 (Melissa
Hafting, m.obs)
Location: 1
HERE
at the old Garibaldi Springs Golf Course accessed around the south end of
the Executive Suites Hotel - Squamish
Reported: May 8 (Chris Murrell)
Location: 1
HERE at Garden
City Park - Richmond
Reported: May 6 (Melissa Hafting and Mike Toochin,
m.obs)
|
| Dusky Flycatcher in Richmond - Photo: Brian Avent |
LEWIS’S WOODPECKER (1)
Location: Seen briefly at East Beach at Maplewood Flats before it was seen
flying east and far away from Maplewood - North Van
Reported: May 8
(Dave Olson, m.obs)
|
| Lewis’s Woodpecker in North Van - Photo: Dave Olson |
Vesper Sparrow (1)
Location:
HERE at Oliver’s
Landing - Furry Creek
Reported: May 7 (Ken Wright)
|
| Vesper Sparrow in Furry Creek - Photo: Ken Wright |
Western Kingbird (3)
Location: 1 last seen sitting on telephone wire
HERE on Rannie
Rd. First seen 100 m north of entrance to Swaneset Golf Course - Pitt
Meadows
Reported: May 6 (Dave Schutz, m.obs)
Location: 1 on Ferguson Rd near Horse Stable - Richmond
Reported: May 6
(Paul Swinton)
Location: 1
HERE at Otter
Point at Maplewood Flats - North Van
Reported: May 6 (Rob Lyske)
|
| Western Kingbird in Pitt Meaodws - Photo: Dave Schutz |
COMMON GRACKLE (1)
Location: Seen briefly
HERE before
flying East - Columbia Valley
Reported: May 5 (Gord Gadsden)
YELLOW-BILLED LOON (1 Juv)
Location: Last seen off the Crescent Beach Pier. Previously seen
HERE in Nicomekl
River at Elgin Park. Also seen by scope off the end of the spit at Blackie
Spit Park - Surrey
Reported: Dec 27/20-May 4/21 (Mike and Sharon
Toochin, m.obs)
|
| Yellow-billed Loon in Surrey - Photo: Anton G. Deise |
Lazuli Bunting (1 early)
Location:
HERE in field on
160th St - Surrey
Reported: May 4 (Dan Tyson)
California Scrub-Jays
Location: 1 last seen on Mcneeleys Way near Ladner Harbour Park. (Also seen
HERE at River's
Reach) - Ladner
Reported: Oct 30/20-May 4/21 (David Bradley, m.obs)
|
| California Scrub-Jay in Delta - Photo: Ilya Povalyaev |
Common Teal (1)
Location: Base of Iona causeway - Richmond
Reported: May 4 (Yousif
Attia)
Western Kingbird (3)
Location: 1 seen at the sw corner of the DND facility and also at the Page
Rd parking lot at Matsqui Park - Abbotsford
Reported: May 1-4 (Nick
Balachanoff)
Location: 2 sitting on tree
HERE
on Dyke Rd near Gray Ave - Abbotsford
Reported: April 28-May 2 (Krissi
Martin, m.obs)
Location: 1 on Middleton Rd - Pitt Meaodws
Reported: May 1 (Kevin
Wagner)
Location: 1
HERE on 224th St
- Maple Ridge
Reported: April 29 (Imelda Yang)
|
| Western Kingbird in Abbotsford - Photo: Krissi Martin |
SAGE THRASHER (1) *injured bird* *Please do not use playback on this endangered bird!*
Location:
HERE on Wilson
Farm Dyke Trail, 150 m west of the junction of the Shaughnessy St Trail and
the Pumphouse Trail at Colony Farm - Coquitlam
Reported: May 1-2 (Mike
Farnworth, m.obs)
|
| Sage Thrasher in Coquitlam - Photo: Mike Farnworth |
RBA: SNOWY PLOVER (1)
Location:
HERE on the beach
at Iona - Richmond
Reported: May 1 (Simon Valdez-Juarez)
|
| Snowy Plover in Richmond - Photo: Simon Valdez-Juarez |
American White Pelicans
Location: 5 flying over Island 22 - Chilliwack
Reported: May 1
(Jonathan Pap)
Location: 5 in US waters viewable by scope from the southern most end of
White Rock Beach - White Rock
Reported: April 30 (Robin Holm)
Dusky Flycatcher (1)
Location:
HERE at Campbell
Valley Park - Langley
Reported: April 30 (Kathryn Milligan and Debbi
Hlady, m.obs)
|
| Dusky Flycatcher in Langley - Photo: Kathryn Milligan |
Red-naped Sapsucker (1 adult female)
Location:
HERE in cherry
trees in NE corner of golf course at QE Park - Vancouver
Reported:
April 28-30 (Ian Burgess, m.obs)
|
| Female Red-naped Sapsucker in Vancouver - Photo: Sabine Jessen |
American White Pelicans (up to 32)
Location: Last seen
HERE (accessed
from the nature dyke trail) on the water in Katzie Marsh at Grant Narrows -
Pitt Meadows
Reported: April 27-29 (Wayne Weber, m.obs)
|
| American White Pelicans in Pitt Meadows - Photo: Sabine Jessen |
Baird’s Sandpiper (1) *rare in spring*
Location: 96th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported: April 28 (Kathryn
Milligan and Debbie Hlady)
|
| Baird’s Sandpiper in Delta - Photo: Kathryn Milligan |
Say’s Phoebe (1)
Location:
HERE on logs at
Otter Point at Maplewood Flats - North Vancouver
Reported: April 25
(Mark Stevens)
Pacific Golden-Plover (1 adult)
Location: In field
HERE viewed by
scope on Tamboline Rd - Delta
Reported: April 24 (Ilya Povalyaev and
Melissa Hafting, m.obs)
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch (1)
Location: Flying over the lodge parking lot at Cypress - West Vancouver
Reported:
April 24 (Yousif Attia)
American White Pelican (5)
Location: Seen off viewing platform at Sandpiper Golf Course at Eagle Point
Park - Harrison Mills
Reported: April 22 (Gord Gadsden)
Golden Eagle (1)
Location: Flying over Cheam Lake - Popkum
Reported: April 22 (Gord
Gadsden)
Great Egret (1)
Location: Viewed briefly by scope off the end of the spit at Blackie Spit
Park before flying off - Surrey
Reported: April 21 (Frank Lin)
|
| Great Egret in Surrey - Photo: Frank Lin |
American White Pelican (8)
Location: 4 on the water viewed by scope from the dyke at the end of
Westminster Hwy, Blundell or Francis Rd or from the north end of Garry Point
Park - Richmond
Reported: April 20 (Yousif Attia, m.obs)
Location: 4 Flew westbound over Jericho (did not land) - Vancouver
Reported:
April 19 (Evan Larson et al.)
|
| American White Pelicans in Vancover - Photo: Evan Larson |
Lapland Longspur (1)
Location: Viewed by scope on turf farm in 72nd St - Delta
Reported:
April 20 (Ken Klimko, m.obs)
American Tree Sparrow (1)
Location: Between the NE and SE ponds at Iona - Richmond
Reported:
April 19-20 (Mike Toochin, m.obs)
Blue Jay (2)
Location: 1 seen
HERE
and HERE at
Ladner Harbour Park (Also seen
HERE at River's
Reach) - Delta
Reported: Nov 7/20-April 20/21 (Dan Tyson, m.obs)
Location: 1
HERE coming to
peanut feeder on Ainsworth Crescent - Richmond
Reported: Dec 27-April 2
(Jim McDougall, m.obs)
|
| Blue Jay in Delta - Photo: Zach Westfall |
California Scrub-Jays
Location: 1
HERE
in Steller's Jay flock - Squamish
Reported: Dec 3/20-April 18/21 (Chris Dale,
m.obs)
Location: 1 at 258 Hart St - Coquitlam
Reported: March 11-April 10 (J.
Sharman)
Location: 1 sitting on wire of vacant lot at 96th St and Ladner Truck Rd
(east of Tim Hortons) - Delta
Reported: Oct 10/20-March 20/21 (Peter Candido,
m.obs)
Mountain Bluebirds
Location: 2 at the water plant at Rice Lake - North Van
Reported: April
20 (John Fisher)
Location: 1 at empty parking lot at Harbourside Park - North Van
Reported:
April 16-17 (John Kalman)
Location: 3 by tower at Centennial Beach - Tsawwassen
Reported: April
1-14 (Debbie Upton)
Location: Up to 13
HERE (between
duck pond and pump house) at Colony Farm - Coquitlam
Reported: March
15-April 11 (Joe Denham, m.obs)
Location: 2 on fence at the north end of Abbotsford Airport
Reported:
April 2-11 (Guy Pambrun)
Location:
HERE on Trim Rd -
Delta
Reported: Apil 11 (Monica Nugent)
Location: Up to 50
HERE at Squamish
Estuary
Reported: March 19-April 13 (Grant Danielson, m.obs)
Location: 2 at Bayly Park - Whistler
Reported: April 8 (NM)
Location: 2 on logs on beach, west of washrooms at Iona - Richmond
Reported:
April 2-6 (Kat McGrath, m.obs)
|
| Mountain Bluebird in Richmond - Photo: Kat McGrath |
Redheads (3 females)
Location: 1 in ditch
HERE to the right
of the junction of the Shaughnessy Trail and Pumphouse Trail at Colony Farm
- Coquitlam
Reported: March 30-April 19 (Mike Farnworth, m.obs)
Location: 1 at the west pond at Blakeburn Lagoons - Port Coquitlam
Reported:
Jan 10-April 5 (Doug Martin, m.obs)
Location: 1 at the pond at Cloverdale Youth Park - Surrey
Reported: Dec
27/20-March 16/21 (Doug Cooper, m.obs)
|
| Redhead in Surrey - Photos: Andrew Boycott |
YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER (1 immature)
Location: Last seen in trees
HERE and
HERE at Pebble
Hill Park near the 3rd Ave entrance - Delta
Reported: April 11-18
(Debbie Wheeler, m.obs)
|
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker in Delta - Photo: Chris McVittie |
Blue-winged Teal (1 male, early)
Location: Main outer pond by boardwalk and seen in the SE inner pond at Iona
- Richmond
Reported: April 5-16 (Krissi Martin, m.obs)
Solitary Sandpiper (1)
Location:
HERE at Brydon
Lagoon - Langley
Reported: April 16 (Cos van Wermeskeren)
|
| Solitary Sandpier in Langley - Photo: Cos van Wermeskerken |
American Tree Sparrow (1)
Location:
HERE under the
pedestrian bridge near the railway tracks at Lower Mackay Creek at
Harbourside Park - North Van
Reported: April 5-15 (John Kalman, m.obs)
Vesper Sparrows (2)
Location: 1 at Hope Airport
Reported: April 15 (Gord Gadsden)
Location: 1
HERE on gravel
path near the community gardens at Colony Farm - Coquitlam
Reported:
April 13 (Kathleen McEachern and Nancy Taylor)
|
| Vesper Sparrow in Coquitlam - Photo: Kathleen McEachern |
Lapland Longspur (2)
Location: 1 in the SW inner pond at Iona - Richmond
Reported: April
11-13 (Yousif Attia and Mike Klotz, m.obs)
Location: 1 feeding
HERE on beach
at English Bay - Vancouver
Reported: April 13 (Mike Boyd, m.obs)
|
| Lapland Longspur in Vancouver - Photo: Frank Lin |
Red-naped Sapsucker (2)
Location: 1 male last seen on cedar tree
HERE. First seen on a fir tree
HERE (east of
Totem Poles) at Stanley Park - Vancouver
Reported: April 12-13 (Frank
Lin, m.obs)
Location: 1 male seen in trees
HERE at Pebble
Hill Park near the 3rd Ave entrance - Delta
Reported: April 12 (Keith
Riding and Cos van Wermeskerken, m.obs)
|
| Red-naped Sapsucker in Delta - Photo: Cos van Wermeskerken |
Long-billed Curlews (4)
Location: On the mud near the boat launch at Pitt Lake - Pitt Meadows
Reported:
April 13 (Moose Stoffregen, m.obs)
Location: 2
HERE at the
estuary - Squamish
Reported: April 7-12 (Grant Danielson)
Location: 1
HERE
briefly on field on Westham Island before flying NE - Delta
Reported:
April 7 (Jeremy Gatten)
|
| Long-billed Curlew in Pitt Meadows - Photo: Moose Stoffregen |
Say’s Phoebes
Location: 1
HERE at Colony
Farm - Colony
Reported: April 11 (Sarah Cutting)
Location: 1 seen briefly perched on washroom building then flew towards
woodlot at Iona - Richmond
Reported: April 11 (Julian Heavyside)
Location: 1
HERE at Bayly
Park - Whistler
Reported: April 8-11 (Nancy Mackay, m.obs)
Location: 1
HERE on beach
logs at Maplewood Flats - North Van
Reported: April 6 (Ian Burgess)
Location: 1 on the beach at the foot of Alma (near Jericho Park) -
Vancouver
Reported: April 1 (Rosemary and Paul Clapham, m.obs)
|
| Say’s Phoebe in Vancouver - Photo: Rosemary Clapham |
Horned Lark (2)
Location: Seeen
HERE
birefly before taking flight over Iona Beach - Richmond
Reported: April
11 (Julian Heavyside)
Common Teals
Location: 1 on the East mudflats at Maplewood Flats - North Van
Reported:
Dec 12/20-April 11/21 (Rob Lyske, m.obs)
Location: 1 at the north end of Dyke Rd - Abbotsford
Reported: April 7
(Dan Tyson)
Willet (1)
Location: Mostly seen between 96-104th St but also seen at 112th St. at
Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported: July 18/20-April 11/21 (Mike Toochin,
m.obs)
|
| Willet in Delta - Photo: Steve Juhasz |
Swamp Sparrow (1)
Location: 1
HERE at the main
outer pond also seen near gate to inner ponds at Iona - Richmond
Reported:
Nov 18/20-April 11/21 (Kathryn Milligan, m.obs)
|
| Swamp Sparrow in Richmond - Photo: Kathryn Milligan |
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch (1)
Location:
HERE feeding on
grassy area near parkade at UBC - Vancouver
Reported: April 8 (Kaichi
Huang, m.obs)
|
| Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch in Vancouver - Photo: Kaichi Huang |
Sora (rare in winter) *no longer rare in April and will no longer be updated*
Location: 1-2 at duck pond at Colony Farm - Coquitlam
Reported: Jan
21-April 8 (Josh Brown, m.obs)
Location: 1 at the main outer pond near the boardwalk at Iona - Richmond
Reported:
March 5-16 (Ashley Phley van der Pouw Kraan, m.obs)
|
| Sora in Coquitlam - Photo: Bob Moore |
Snow Bunting (1)
Location: Grasslands close to the windsurfing spit (East Field) at Squamish
Estuary
Reported: Marrch 31-April 5 (Chris Dale)
LESSER GOLDFINCHES (2)
Location:
HERE feeding on
plants along shoreline between wharf B and wharf C at Ladner Harbour Park -
Delta
Reported: March 25-April 4 (Jeremy Gatten, m.obs)
|
| Male Lesser Goldfinch in Delta - Photo: Ian Burgess |
Townsend's Solitaire (1) (no longer rare in April and will not be updated further)*
Location: Eating red berries at Granville Park at the corner of Burrard St
and W 15th Ave - Vancouver
Reported: March 13-April 4 (fide
Liron Gerstman, m.obs)
|
| Townsend’s Solitaire in Vancouver - Photo: Liron Gerstman |
Snow Bunting (1)
Location: On boardwalk at Piper Spit at Burnaby Lake - Burnaby
Reported:
April 3 (Noel Roy, m.obs)
|
| Snow Bunting in Burnaby - Photo: James Park |
Mountain Bluebirds
Location: 1 near mansion with pond by 64th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported:
March 30 (Liz Stewart, m.obs)
Location: 3 at Koerner Rd near Rannie Rd - Pitt Meadows
Reported: March
29-April 10 (Mark McAnally, m.obs)
Location: 1 male at Slocan and Yale - Vancouver
Reported: March 25 (Dan
Pontalti)
Location: 2 at west salt marsh at Maplewood Flats - North Van
Reported:
March 19 (Sue Flecker, m.obs)
Location: 1 by totem poles at Burnaby Mtn - Burnaby
Reported: March 15
(Craig Huish, m.obs)
Location: 3 at Hope Airport
Reported: March 9-14 (Ed Klassen, m.obs)
Location: 1 female
HERE in
cottonwood on Wilson Farm Dyke Trail at Colony Farm - Coquitlam
Reported:
Jan 16-March 13 (Mike Farnworth, m.obs)
Location: 2 at Campbell Rd near McDermott Rd - Abbotsford
Reported:
March 13 (Gord Gadsden)
Location: 1 male
HERE at
Centennial Beach - Delta
Reported: March 12 (Josh Brown)
Location: 1 on Ferguson Rd airport fence - Richmond
Reported: March 9
(Kendra Bisbing)
Location: 7 in berry field in the 100 block of Columbia Valley Rd -
Chilliwack
Reported: March 7 (Ed Klassen)
Say's Phoebe (2)
Location:
HERE at Squamish
River Estuary
Reported: March 19-26 (Chris Dale, m.obs)
Snow Buntings
Location: 3 at the end of the spit at Blackie Spit Park - Surrey
Reported:
Oct 26/20-March 24/21 (Frank Lin, m.obs)
Location: 2 at the end of the south jetty and also seen at marker 196 on the
south jetty at Iona - Richmond
Reported: Feb 25-March 11 (Wayne Diakow,
m.obs)
|
| Snow Bunting in Surrey - Photo: Frank Lin |
NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD (1)
Location: Stand
HERE
and look to holly tree
HERE in the marsh
(best viewed by scope) at Reifel - Ladner
Reported: Nov 8/20-March
23/21 (Don McKinnon and Francis Jones, m.obs)
|
| Northern Mockingbird in Delta - Photo: Francis Jones |
Common Teals
Location: 1 at Ladner Harbour Park near the car bridge - Delta
Reported:
March 23 (Hui Sim)
Location: 1
HERE at
Serpentine Fen - Surrey
Reported: March 15-17 (Roger Foxall, m.obs)
Location: 1
HERE on Kennedy
Rd - Pitt Meadows
Reported: Nov 21/20-March 18/21 (Larry Cowan, m.obs)
Location: 2 at Canoe Pass - Delta
Reported: Dec 31/20-March 12/21 (Kat
McGrath, m.obs)
Location: Piper Spit at Burnaby Lake - Burnaby
Reported: March 5 (James
Park)
Location: 1 on the north side of inlet along Shoreline Trail at Shoreline
Park - Port Moody
Reported: Jan 23-Feb 24 (Cos van Wermeskerken, m.obs)
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| Common Teal in Delta - Photo: Kat McGrath |
Golden Eagle (1 immature)
Location:
HERE in tree off
152nd St - Surrey **Please park on wide shoulder and stay off busy road.**
**Please do not trespass in farmer’s field and view from road**
Reported:
March 13-20 (Costel Necula, m.obs)
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| Golden Eagle in Surrey - Photo: Andrew Boycott |
American Tree Sparrow (Up to 5)
Location: Seen
HERE at
Serpentine Fen - Surrey
Reported: Jan 21-March 20 (Grant Edwards,
m.obs)
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| American Tree Sparrow in Surrey - Photo: Melissa Hafting |
Say’s Phoebes (3)
Location: 1 in front of sewage plant by the admin building (also seen by
yellow gate and in marsh across from plant) at Iona - Richmond
Reported:
March 14-17 (Kay and Stephen Jollymore, m.obs)
Location: 1 at Hope Airport
Reported: March 5-14 (Gord Gadsden, m.obs)
Location: 1
HERE at Brunswick
Point - Delta
Reported: March 11 (Glen Bodie, m.obs)
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| Say’s Phoebe in Richmond - Photo: James Park |
Lapland Longspur (3)
Location:
HERE on Pemberton
Meadows Rd before you turn off to Hurley FSR - Pemberton
Reported:
March 16 (Liz Barrett)
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| 1 of 3 Lapland Longspurs in Pemberton - Photo: Liz Barrett |
Pine Grosbeak (1)
Location: Flying over Mystery Peak at Mt. Seymour - North Van
Reported:
March 14 (Sean Jenniskens)
Golden Eagle (3 adults)
Location: Last seen on tree on Campbell Rd between Tolmie Rd and
Interprovincial HWY. Also seen on Tolmie Rd west of Campbell Rd. Also seen
On Marion Rd west of Campbell Rd - Abbotsford
Reported: Dec 10/20-March
13/21 (Raymond Ng, m.obs)
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| Golden Eagle in Abbotsford - Photo: Raymond Ng |
Gyrfalcons
Location: 1 adult last seen sitting on tower at 210 St and Golden Ears Way -
Maple Ridge. Also seen on Middleton Rd and in trees along Neaves Rd - Pitt
Meadows
Reported: Nov 18/20-March 9/21 (Krissi Martin, m.obs)
Location: 1 juv on power poles on Middleton Rd - Pitt Meadows
Reported:
Dec 23/20-Feb 23/21 (Mike and Sharon Toochin, m.obs)
Location: 1 juv on Dixon Rd near Wells Line - Abbotsford
Reported: Feb
7 (Jean Turner)
Location: 1 adult on tree on McDermott Rd near Wells Line Rd - Abbotsford
Reported:
Dec 29/20-Jan 13/21 (Raymond Ng, m.obs)
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| Gyrfalcon in Pitt Meadows - Photo: Mike Tabak |
Pine Grosbeaks
Location: Up to 5 last seen
HERE eating
crabapples at Maplewood Flats - North Van
Reported: Dec 1/20- March
8/21 (Brett Brown, m.obs)
Location: Up to 12 last seen
HERE. Previously seen
HERE
and HERE at
Squamish River Estuary
Reported: Nov 26/20-March 7/21 (Chris Dale)
Location: Up to 13 last seen
HERE
on Rannie Rd Also seen on Rannie Rd between the yellow gate and Grant
Narrows parking lot - Pitt Meadows
Reported: Jan 30-Feb 10 (David
Schutz, m.obs)
Location: 2
HERE on 203 St -
Pitt Meadows
Reported: Feb 9 (Sean Jenniskens)
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| Pine Grosbeak in North Van - Photo: James Park |
Golden Eagles (2)
Location: Flying over Sumas Central Rd Heading towards the Mtn -
Chilliwack
Reported: March 6 (Gord Gadsden)
Snow Bunting (1)
Location: Lagoon at Harrison Hot Springs
Reported: March 4 (Neal Doan)
Swamp Sparrow (1)
Location: 1 on the west dyke at the foot of Francis Rd - Richmond
Reported:
March 2-3 (Yousif Attia, m.obs)
Redheads
Location: 2 males at Harrison Lagoon - Harrison Hot Springs
Reported:
Jan 25-Feb 24 (Ed Klassen, m.obs)
Location: 1 female at the North Creek Duck Pond - Surrey
Reported: Feb
19 (Cheryl Bernard)
Location: 1 female at Yorkson Pond - Langley
Reported: Feb 4 (Dan
Tyson)
Location: 1 male at Kilby provincial campsite - Harrison Mills
Reported:
Jan 14 (Gord Gadsden)
White-winged Crossbill (Up to 38)
Location: Last seen in conifers near the bridge along the trail on the west
side of the train tracks directly west of the Vancouver St entrance. Also
seen
HERE in the north
field at the Squamish Estuary - Squamish
Reported: Jan 26-March 4
(Chris Dale, m.obs)
Chipping Sparrow (3) *late*
Location: Last seen in an oak tree near 13237 Hale Rd. Previously seen
HERE on Hale Rd -
Pitt Meadows
Reported: Dec 6/20-March 3/21 (Melissa Hafting and Ilya
Povalyaev, m.obs)
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| 1 of 3 Chipping Sparrows in Pitt Meadows - Photo: Melissa Hafting |
Lapland Longspurs (Up to 71)
Location: Banford Rd south of Prairie Central Rd - Chilliwack
Reported:
Feb 15-March 1 (Gord Gadsden, m.obs)
Horned Larks (Up to 20)
Location: Banford Rd south of Prairie Central Rd - Chilliwack
Reported:
Jan 24-March 1 (Ed Klassen, m.obs)
Golden Eagle (1)
Location: Flying over Banford Rd heading towards the Mtn - Chilliwack
Reported:
Feb 28 (Gord Gadsden)
Yellow-headed Blackbird (1 male)
Location: Last seen in mixed blackbird flock at 21145 Golden Ears Way. Also
seen in blackbird flock at 216th St and Thornton Ave - Maple Ridge
Reported:
Feb 24-26 (Elise Carelse, m.obs)
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| Yellow-blackbird in Maple Ridge - Photo: Elise Carelse |
BLACK-BILLED MAGPIE (2)
Location: 1 last seen
HERE by Cecil
Green House at Cecil Green Park. Previously seen
HERE at UBC -
Vancouver
Reported: Feb 8-25 (Daniel Sveinson, m.obs)
Location: 1 seen at Lighthouse Park Point Roberts - WA (not accessible to
Canadians due to border closure). This is most likely the same bird seen ten
days prior at Deltaport in Canada (see below)
Reported: Feb 24 (Gregory
Porter)
Location: 1 at the maintenance building at Deltaport at Roberts Bank (not in
a publicly accessible area) - Delta
Reported: Feb 5-14 (Rocky
Hildebrand)
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| Black-billed Magpie in Vancouver - Photo: Daniel Sveinson |
Red Knot (up to 3)
Location: 1 at the foot of 104th St and 2 on the pilings between 96-104th St
at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported: Jan 7-Feb 24 (Mike Toochin and Sean
Jenniskens, m.obs)
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| Red Knot (L) in Delta - Photo: Cos Van Wermeskerken |
Northern Goshawk (1 adult)
Location: South side of the SW marsh and the central dyke at Reifel -
Delta
Reported: Feb 13-23 (Mike Toochin, Sharon Toochin and Kathleen
Fry)
Rusty Blackbird (1)
Location:
HERE on Walnut St
but also seen along on Urdal Rd - Pemberton
Reported: Feb 16-23 (Allen
McEwan, m.obs)
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| Rusty Blackbird in Pemberton - Photo: Wayne Diakow |
Glaucous Gulls
Location: 2 adults
HERE on 96th St
near Burns Dr. - Delta
Reported: Feb 1-22 (Kathryn Milligan, Kevin
Louth and Yousif Attia, m.obs)
Location: 1 second winter on Prairie Central Rd near Gibson Rd -
Chilliwack
Reported: Feb 20 (Gord Gadsden)
Location: 1 first winter on Banford Rd south of Prairie Central Rd -
Chilliwack
Reported: Feb 20 (Ed Klassen)
Location: 1 first winter last seen in field west of Prest Rd across the hwy
from the airport. Previously seen in field south of Hwy 1 on Luckakuck Way.
Previously seen in field between Hwy 1 and Prairie Central Rd east of
Chilliwack River Rd - Chilliwack
Reported: Jan 17-Feb 4 (Gord Gadsden)
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| Glaucous Gull in Delta - Photo: Kathryn Milligan |
Prairie Falcons (2)
Location: 1 last seen on a tree on Connecting Rd (between McKechnie Rd and
Sharpe. Previously seen on Ladner Rd near the Golden Eagle Golf Course.
Previously seen on Rannie Rd and Dewdney Trunk Rd - Pitt Meadows
Reported:
Oct 22/20-Feb 21/21 (Raymond Ng, m.obs)
Location: 1 last seen on Nelles Rd west of Whatcom Rd. Previously seen on
Angus Campbell Rd north of Vye Rd - Abbotsford
Reported: Dec 2-Feb 15
(Gord Gadsden, m.obs)
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| Prairie Falcon in Pitt Meadows - Photo: Raymond Ng |
White-winged Crossbills (22)
Location: Feeding in alders
HERE on Wilson
Farm Dyke Trail at Colony Farm - Coquitlam
Reported: Feb 18 (Dan Tyson,
m.obs)
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| White-winged Crossbill in Coquitlam - Photo: Dan Tyson |
Northern Goshawk (2 adult)
Location:
HERE at Garibaldi
Springs - Squamish
Reported: Feb 22 (Chris Murrell)
Location: Squamish River Estuary
Reported: Feb 15 (Chris Dale)
American Tree Sparrows
Location: 2 on the dyke
HERE near the
electrical fenced area between 64-72nd St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported:
Jan 3-Feb 11 (Brent Diakow, m.obs)
Location: 3 on dyke 1.4 km west of 224th St (near Blaney Bog) - Maple
Ridge
Reported: Jan 19 (Carlo Giovanella)
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| American Tree Sparrow in Delta - Photo: Peter Candido |
Swamp Sparrow
Location: 1
HERE at Campbell
Valley Park - Langley
Reported: Feb 7 (Andrew Boycott and Alana Froese)
Barn Swallows
Location: 2 flying at 72nd St and between 96-104th St at Boundary Bay -
Delta
Reported: Jan 19-Feb 4 (Zach Westfall, m.obs)
Location: 1 flying around west salt marsh at Maplewood Flats - North Van
Reported:
Jan 23 (Stephen Partington and Gail Kenner)
Townsend's Solitaire (1)
Location: In tree in front of 3886 West 11th Ave. Also seen in tree in front
of 3880 West 12th Ave - Vancouver
Reported: Jan 31-Feb 1 (Zac Fedder,
m.obs)
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| Townsend’s Solitaire in Vancouver - Photo: Evan Larson |
Common Yellowthroat (1 female) *late*
Location: Last seen
HERE. Previously seen
HERE at
Serpentine Fen - Surrey
Reported: Dec 29/20-Jan 29/21 (Ilya Povalyaev,
m.obs)
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| Common Yellowthroat in Surrey - Photo: Ilya Povalyaev |
Swamp Sparrows
Location: 1 off the Vancouver St access on the NE side of tracks at the
Squamish Estuary - Squamish
Reported: Jan 26-28 (Christopher Di
Corrado, m.obs)
Location: 1
HERE at North
Creek Duck Pond - Surrey
Reported: Jan 11-14 (Andrew Boycott and Alana
Froese, m.obs)
Location: 1
HERE at Blaney
Bog - Maple Ridge
Reported: Jan 3-7 (Ilya Povalyaev and Melissa
Hafting, m.obs)
Rusty Blackbird (2)
Location:
HERE
on Pemberton Farm Rd - Pemberton
Reported: Jan 23-24 (Tonette McEwan)
Mountain Bluebird (3)
Location:
HERE at
Industrial Way and Progress Way - Chilliwack
Reported: Jan 3-19 (Dave
Pepper, m.obs)
LESSER GOLDFINCH (1 male) *Open to Public*
Location: Contact the RBA to visit this private home - Pemberton
*Please be respectful of private property, wear a mask, social distance
and do not block driveways*
Reported: Jan 17-23 (Tonette McEwan, m.obs)
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| Lesser Goldfinch in Pemberton - Photo: Wayne Diakow |
Pacific Golden-Plover (1)
Location: Last seen at the Foot of 104th St at Boundary Bay - Delta
Reported:
Jan 4-22 (Peter Candido, m.obs)
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| Pacific Golden-Plover in Delta - Photo: Cos van Wermeskerken |
Western Tanager (1 female, rare in winter)
Location: 2621 Woodland Dr - Vancouver
Reported: Jan 21 (Dave Olson)
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| Western Tanager in Vancouver - Photo: Dave Olson |
Ruddy Turnstone (1)
Location: End of south jetty at Iona - Richmond
Reported: Jan 9-20
(Harold Eyster and John Chandler, m.obs)
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| Ruddy Turnstone in Richmond - Photo: Peter Lypkie |
Snow Bunting (1)
Location: 1 at the 2nd shelter on the south jetty at Iona - Richmond
Reported:
Jan 17 (Adam Jermakow)
Lapland Longspur (2)
Location: Flyover
HERE on Robertson
Rd - Delta
Reported: Jan 16 (Melissa Hafting, Ilya Povalyaev, Bridget
Spencer)
Turkey Vulture (1)
Location: Flying over Annis Rd and Hwy 1 - Chilliwack
Reported: Jan 16
(Dave Beeke)
CASSIN'S FINCH (1 female) *not open to public*
Location: Private Home - Coquitlam
Reported: Jan 15 (Moose Stoffregen)
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| Cassin's Finch in Coquitlam - Photo: Moose Stoffregen |
Turkey Vulture (1)
Location: sitting on building at Bailey Landfill - Chilliwack
Reported:
Jan 15 (Marc Sole)
Common Teals
Location: 1 at SW Inner pond at Iona - Richmond
Reported: Jan 13 (Evan
Larson)
Location: 1 in ditch on Thompson Rd - Pitt Meadows
Reported: Jan 6
(Larry Cowan)
Location: 1
HERE at Willband
Creek Park - Abbotsford
Reported: Dec 27-28 (Dave Olson)
Location: 1 at Surrey Lake Park - Surrey
Reported: Dec 24 (Frank
Lin)
Pine Grosbeaks
Location: 6
HERE on Rannie Rd
near Grant Narrows - Pitt Meadows
Reported: Jan 10 (Yousif Attia)
Location: 1 in the 20200 Block of 93B Ave - Langley
Reported: Jan 10
(Dan Tyson)
Location:
HERE at Burnaby
Lake - Burnaby
Reported: Jan 6 (Istvan Orosi)
Location: 8 feeding
HERE and
previously seen
HERE on 224th St
- Maple Ridge
Reported: Jan 2-6 (Alaina O’Byrne, m.obs)
Turkey Vulture (1)
Location: Flying over Diefenbaker Park - Tsawwassen
Reported: Jan 3,
2021 (Kris Klimko)
