At 9:15 am on December 27-2025, Mel and Evi Coulson, Dennis and Cindy Verbeek found a Brambling coming to a feeder on Broadway Ave in Smithers. This could be the same bird first seen in Telkwa as that bird was not relocated there yesterday.
The bird continues on Dec 28th at Ken White's home at 3959 Broadway Ave.
The homeowner Ken is fine with birders viewing it from the public street.
Map to location HERE
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| Brambling in Smithers - Photos: Ken White |
At 2:30pm on December 25-2025, Ethan Moon found a Taiga Flycatcher at Sunset Beach Park in Vancouver.
Map to original location HERE
The bird continues HERE by the Aquatic centre and last seen HERE in Hornbeam Trees along Beach Ave as of 4:10pm and has been viewed by multiple observers.
The bird continues on Dec 26/25-Jan 4/26 HERE and HERE at Sunset Beach Park and has been viewed by multiple observers. The bird has a circuit and forages at the base of trees as far down as Jervis Street but always returns to the trees HERE by the aquatic centre off the seawall.
This is a first record for BC and Canada.
A few news articles on the bird can be found HERE and HERE and HERE
Please DO NOT CHASE the bird around or ATTEMPT TO GET TOO CLOSE to the bird and keep a respectful distance.
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| Taiga Flycatcher in Vancouver - Photos: Ethan Moon |
At 9 am on Dec 24-2025, Cindy Lewis found a Brambling in a junco flock on 5426 Hubert St in Telkwa.
Map to location HERE
The bird continues on Dec 25th but was not relocated on Dec 26th.
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| Brambling in Telkwa - Photo: Cindy Lewis |
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| Brambling in Terrace - Photos: Eileen LeFrancois |
At 12:10pm on December 15-2025, Simon Dakin found a Pine Warbler at his private home visiting his suet feeder in Victoria.
The bird continues on Dec 16th at the same home and has been viewed by multiple observers. The homeowner is allowing birders to view from the public street.
The bird is coming to the suet feeder on Harriet Rd just north of Burnside Rd E. in Victoria. The homeowner has graciously moved the feeder to the front yard.
The bird has also been seen in a mixed chickadee and bushtit flock in a tall cedar at 3264 Irma St across from Rudd Park.
Map to location HERE
On Dec 17/25-Jan 3/26, the bird was relocated at the feeders near the tree with Christmas ornaments at 3229 Irma St.
Map to location HERE
Please be respectful of private residences and do not block driveways or stand on driveways and do not trespass when viewing this bird.
This is the third record for BC.
**On Jan 3rd the bird appeared to sustain a window strike injury and was not seen on Jan 4th.**
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| Pine Warbler in Victoria - Photo: Adam Ross |
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| Pine Warbler in Victoria - Photo: Geoffrey Newell |
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| Pine Warbler in Victoria - Photo: Daniel Donnecke |
At 12:50 pm on Nov 28-2025 Fred D. found a Summer Tanager at his suet feeder at his private home. The bird stayed until 4:30pm but has not returned since.
This is the 12th record for BC.
The bird was relocated in Krystal McEwan’s private yard on Dec 8 and has still been present until Dec 10th-2025.
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| Summer Tanager in Surrey - Photo: Fred D. |
A Prairie Warbler was photographed by Hsien Chong Tan and viewed as well by Ju Dee Ang at 10 am on Nov 20th in a blackberry bush near the Maple St Pumphouse at Blackie Spit Park.
Map to location HERE
This is the 10th record for BC.
The bird has not been relocated so far on Nov 28th.
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| Prairie Warbler in Surrey - Photo: Hsien Chong Tan |
On November 23-2025, Ethan Gosnell found a male Tufted Duck moulting out of eclipse plumage at the outer pond at Iona Regional Park in Richmond.
Map to location HERE
The bird was also seen in the NW inner pond on Nov 24-Dec 9th
From Dec 11/2025-Jan 4/2026, the bird was in the main outer pond and in the scaup flock off the base of the causeway and also back in the NW inner pond.
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| Tufted Duck in Richmond - Photo: Terri Gueck |
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| Tufted Duck in Richmond - Photo: Frank Lin |
On Nov 15-2025, Kelly Price found and photographed a male Painted Bunting. The bird was at the feeder in the yard of his sister’s private residence, in Williams Lake.
The bird continues at the feeder on Nov 18th.
**The home is NOT open to the public.**
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| Painted Bunting in Williams Lake - Photos: Phil Ranson |
At 11 am on Nov 11-2025, Kalum Srochenski found a male Black-throated Blue Warbler at his private home off Frontage Rd near Sykes Rd W in Prince George.
Birders are welcome to view the bird from the public street.
Map to location HERE
The bird was not relocated on Nov 12th.
The bird returned to the same location on Nov 17th and birders are welcome to come view it.
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| Black-throated Blue Warbler in Prince George - Photo: Kalum Srochenski |
On Nov 10-2025, Thomas Rivest found a male Hooded Oriole feeding from the planters at Great Bear Lodge at the end of Smith inlet in BC's Central Coast. This lodge is NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC and CLOSED for the winter season.
This is the 31st record for BC.
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| Hooded Oriole in Smith Inlet - Photos: Thomas Rivest |
At 10:15 am on Nov 10-2025, Thompson Hyggen found a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher at Finlayson Point and then at 11 am it moved 200m to the west off Dallas Rd, where it was viewed by multiple birders for at least 20 mins. It was loosely associating with a flock of bushtits.
Map to location HERE
On Nov 11-Dec 22nd, the bird continues HERE and HERE and has been viewed by multiple observers.
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| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher in Victoria - Photo: Andrew Boycott |
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| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher in Victoria - Photo: Thompson Hyggen |
This is the 30th record for BC.
At 9 am on Nov 6, 2025, Blair Dudeck and Aiva Noringseth found a Red-throated Pipit at the Cowichan Estuary in Cowichan Bay.
Map to location HERE
This is the 71st record for BC.
The bird continues in the same spot on Nov 9th.
At 3:30pm on Nov 2-2025, Ian Cruickshank found a Hooded Oriole visiting a hummingbird feeder near the intersection of Wharf and Main Sts in Tofino. The feeder is visible from the public road.
Please be respectful of private property and homeowners when viewing this bird from the public road.
This is 30th record for BC.
The bird was seen in the same location on Nov 3rd and viewed by multiple observers. The bird was not seen between Nov 3 and Dec 6th.
On Dec 6-2025, Ian Cruickshank relocated the bird at the same feeder.
The bird continues in the same location as of Jan 3/26 and has been viewed by multiple observers.
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| Hooded Oriole in Tofino - Photo: Adrian Dorst |
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| Hooded Oriole in Tofino - Photo: Céline Midavaine |
On Oct 31-2025, Kathie and Ken Pritchard found an adult female White Wagtail of the lugens subspecies in the parking lot of Starbucks at the Town Centre Mall.
Map to location HERE
This appears to be the same bird from Richmond, BC. It wasn’t found in Richmond today and feather wear and plumage appears to be identical.
The bird continued in the same location and in the A & W parking lot HERE on Nov 4th.
It has not been relocated on Nov 5 or 6th.
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| White Wagtail in Powell River - Photos: Kathie Pritchard |
At 11:39 am on October 30-2025, Kaiden Bosch found a Little Bunting in Roberts Creek. He watched the bird fly in calling and land on the pier ten feet in front of him, for one minute before it quickly flew off towards Gibsons.
He watched it fly high for at least 1 Km and lost it.
Map to location HERE
This is the first confirmed record for BC and Canada.
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| Little Bunting in Roberts Creek - Photos: Kaiden Bosch |
At 2:15 pm on October 30-2025, Carl Hughes found an adult female Rustic Bunting near Sandspit Airport in Haida Gwaii. The bird was foraging in a flock of Dark-eyed Juncos on the lawn 200m south of the airport terminal.
Map to location HERE
This is the 7th confirmed photographic record for BC.
The bird continues in the same spot on Oct 31st.
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| Rustic Bunting in Haida Gwaii - Photo: Carey Bergman |
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| Rustic Bunting in Haida Gwaii - Photos: Carl Hughes |
At 10:30 am on October 26-2025, Carl Hughes found a Red-throated Pipit at the Sandspit Airport in Haida Gwaii.
This is the 70th record for BC.
You can hear a recording Carl Hughes made of the bird below:
At 12:13 pm on Oct 25-2025, Michelle Lamberson and Arne Toma found a Spotted Redshank on a log at Fuller’s Slough at Reifel Bird Sanctuary.
Map to location HERE
Admission is 8$ for adults and reservations must be booked online for entry. Reifel is closed on Mondays.
The bird flew north at 3pm.
On Oct 26th, the bird continued at Fuller’s Slough at the same spot and at the nearby House Pond HERE and West Field HERE
*** On Oct 28th, the Spotted Redshank was relocated HERE on the dock at Britannia Shipyards***
The bird has not been relocated thus far at either location on Oct 29th, thus far.
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| Spotted Redshank in Delta - Photos: Scott Edwardson |
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| Spotted Redshank in Delta - Photo: Dan Tyson |
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| Spotted Redshank in Delta - Photo: Cameron Walker |
At 9:27 am on Oct 25-2025, Jody Wells, Ian Cruickshank, Carl Hughes and James Bradley found a Siberian Pipit at the NW corner of Sandspit Airport.
Map to location HERE
This is the 6th record for BC.
The bird was not relocated.
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| Siberian Pipit in Haida Gwaii - Photos: Jody Wells |
