At 5:53pm on Sept 15-2025, Randy Varga found an Ash-throated Flycatcher at Yellow Point Lodge in Ladysmith.
The bird was foraging in trees along the ocean shore. The lodge grounds are open to the public who aren't staying at the hotel but who are eating lunch or dinner at the restaurant.
Map to location HERE
The bird has not been relocated.
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| Ash-throated Flycatcher in Nanaimo - Photo: Randy Varga |
At 4:43pm on August 20-2025, Chelsea Stanley photographed a Masked Booby while aboard the CCGS Sir John Franklin research vessel in Queen Charlotte Sound.
Map to location HERE
This is the 4th record for BC.
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| Masked Booby in Queen Charlotte Sound - Photos: Chelsea Stanley |
A hatch year male Chestnut-sided Warbler was banded by David Bell at Vaseux Lake bird observatory’s banding station at 7:30am on Sept 13-2025.
This is the 92nd record for BC
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| Chestnut-sided Warbler in Okanagan Falls - Photo: David Bell |
At 12pm on Sept 10-2025, Daryl Calder found a juvenile Little Blue Heron along the shoreline of the Kootenay River in Wardner. The bird was first identified as a Great and Cattle Egret due to long distance views but photos obtained on Sept 11th by Helen Diakow et al. show it to be a Little Blue Heron.
Map to location of bird HERE and HERE
The bird is best viewed by scope from the pullout HERE or HERE on Laurier St.
This is the 5th record for BC.
The bird continues as of 7pm on Sept 11th and has been viewed by multiple observers.
At 7:30 pm on Sept 11th, the bird flew high and south down the river.
The bird continued in the same location on Sept 13th.
**The bird has not been relocated on Sept 14th or 15th, despite multiple observers looking.**
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| Little Blue Heron in Wardner - Photos: Helen Diakow |
At 9:40 am on Sept 10-2025, Kaiden Bosch found and photographed a Red-throated Pipit on the beach near the Sandspit Airport in Sandspit, Haida Gwaii. The bird was in a flock of American Pipits. Kaiden watched it for 30 mins and left it there.
Map to location HERE
This is the 63rd record for BC.
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| Red-throated Pipit in Haida Gwaii - Photo: Kaiden Bosch |
At ten am on September 8-2025, Yvette Munson found an adult female White Wagtail of the lugens subspecies, in a parking lot on Bayview Street in Richmond.
Map to location HERE
Note the parking lot is a pay parking lot.
It also goes up on to the nearby roof of the Lavash Seaside Grill restaurant and nearby buildings HERE
The bird continues in the original location on Oct 30th.
The bird was not found in Richmond on Oct 31st, despite multiple observers looking.
The bird was refound in Powell River by Kathie and Ken Pritchard. You can read about that HERE
This is the 18th record for BC.
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| White Wagtail in Richmond - Photo: Nick Park |
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| White Wagtail in Richmond - Photo: Ilya Povalyaev |
At 2:15pm on Aug 31-2025, Ilya Povalyaev found a Black Phoebe at the foot of 104th St at Boundary Bay. The bird was flycatching from birch trees in the private yard off the dyke entrance.
Map to location HERE
This is the 62nd record for BC.
The bird flew after ten mins and has not been relocated.
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| Black Phoebe in Delta - Photo: Ilya Povalyaev |
At 8:30am on August 30-2025, Nathan Hentze found an Ash-throated Flycatcher at Cuthbert Holmes Park in Victoria.
The bird continues in the same locations on Sept 1st and has been viewed by multiple observers.
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| Ash-throated Flycatcher in Victoria - Photos: Les Peterson |
At 10 am on August 26-2025, Sue Flecker found a Black Phoebe at the east salt marsh at Maplewood Flats in North Vancouver.
Map to location HERE
The bird was last seen at 11 am and was viewed by multiple observers.
This is the 61st record for BC.
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| Black Phoebe in North Vancouver - Photos: Sue Flecker |
At 8:08 am on August 22-2025, Gaelin Armstrong spotted a Black Phoebe on a boat dock at Rocky Point Bird Observatory in Metchosin.
There is no public access to this site.
This is the 60th record for BC.
