At 8am on June 6-2022, Suzy Wright found a male Indigo Bunting with Lazuli Buntings at her home on Freeman Rd.
The bird may be viewed from along Freeman Rd near HERE but please do not trespass.
It has not been relocated since.
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| Indigo Bunting near Quesnel - Photo: Suzy Wright |
At 12:30pm on June 5-2022, Luke Downs found a Snowy Egret on the Cowichan Estuary Conservation Trail in Cowichan Bay.
The bird was feeding in the slough HERE and perching in trees and has been viewed by multiple observers.
On June 6th the bird was last seen HERE in the marsh along Westcan Terminal Rd and hasn’t been seen since.
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| Snowy Egret in Cowichan Bay - Photo: Nathan Hentze |
At 12:30pm on June 4-2022, Kayne Meyers-Harris found an Ash-throated Flycatcher perched in shrubs near the pond on the pipe at Iona Regional Park.
Map to location HERE
The bird has not been relocated as of 7pm, despite multiple observers looking.
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| Ash-throated Flycatcher in Richmond - Photo: Kayne Meyers-Harris |
At 7:25 am on June 4-2022 Ian Burgess and Brent Diakow found a male Scarlet Tanager at the upper main parking lot in a flock of Western Tanagers at Queen Elizabeth Park.
Map to location HERE
The bird has also been seen HERE near the lawn bowling area. However the main location at the upper parking lot is where it prefers most.
On June 5th, Sharon Toochin discovered a second male Scarlet Tanager at the same location. While one was being viewed at the main upper parking lot HERE a second bird was being seen and photographed at the quarry garden beneath Seasons in the Park Restaurant HERE. Then both birds were viewed together at the upper main parking lot by several observers.
On June 6th both bird continue at the original location (main upper parking lot).
**The birds were not relocated on June 7th**
**This is the 4th confirmed photographed record for BC and the 1st record for Metro Vancouver.**
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| Male Scarlet Tanager in Vancouver - Photo: Cole Gaerber |
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| Male Scarlet Tanager in Vancouver - Photo: Ian Burgess |
At 7am on May 28-2022, Ian Cruickshank found a Manx Shearwater flying NW 1 km out from Amphitrite Point.
He viewed the bird through his scope and described it as the following: “small shearwater with long/slender wings and noticeably snappy, fast wingbeats (a few beats at a time interspersed with long glides, of course); at distance appeared entirely clean white from throat to undertail, contrasting dark upper half to head, uniformly very dark upperwings and upperparts, underwings mostly pale but could make out dark borders. Smaller bird with quicker/snappier wingbeats than solo PFSH seen earlier today.”
Map to location HERE
This is the 73rd record for BC.
At 2pm on May 26-2022, Steve Ogle found a Brown Thrasher at McQueen’s Slough. The bird is 250m down from the start of the main trail in the area where the trail has a small corridor of trees on both sides. The bird was singing and was viewed by all in his group.
Map to location of bird HERE
This is the 43rd record for BC.
The bird was not relocated on May 27th, despite observers looking.
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| Brown Thrasher in Dawson Creek - Photo: Sue Milks |
At 10:47 am on May 26-2022, Joshua Brown and Amicie Lavault spotted a Manx Shearwater flying south near the south end of Calvert Island which is south of Bella Bella. They viewed the bird while aboard a BC Ferries Vessel.
Map to location HERE
This is the 72nd record for BC.
Manx Shearwater near Calvert Island - Photo: Amicie Lavault
At 11:43 am on May 24-2022, Joshua Brown found a Manx Shearwater in Hecate Strait in a flock of Sooty Shearwaters while he was aboard a BC Ferries vessel. The bird was last seen flying south.
Map to location HERE
This is the 71st record for BC.
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| Manx Shearwater in Hecate Strait - Photo: Joshua Brown |
This morning (May 23-2022), Mona Walsh found a male Indigo Bunting at her private residence in the East Kootenay town of Elkford. The bird was in her garden for much of the morning and remained until early afternoon, at which point it was not seen again.
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| Indigo Bunting. Elkford, BC. May 23, 2022. Photo: Mona Walsh. |
At 3pm on May 20-2022, Jim Sims, Lubna Khan and Sean and Betty Donahue found an adult Snowy Plover at Chilanko Marsh in Chilanko Forks (near Tatla Lake).
Map to location HERE
This is the 39th record for BC.
The bird was not relocated on May 21st despite multiple observers looking.
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| Snowy Plover in Chilanko Forks - Photos: Jim Sims |
