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Post by birder1942 on Jun 18, 2020 13:02:51 GMT -8
This a.m. took a trip to the Fraser R. end of McDonald Rd, Agassiz, to hike/bird along the dyke. Among other things, the highlight was a singing Veery, with its beautiful down flowing song. I then checked out Cheam Wetlands. it was quite quiet, but I did get two FOY Cassin's Vireos. John Vooys, Abbotsford
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Post by Ben on Jun 18, 2020 16:06:46 GMT -8
Was the Veery north of the Fraser River Lodge? I plan to see if I can find it tomorrow
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Post by Ben on Jun 19, 2020 6:33:13 GMT -8
Veery is still in the same area this morning. Thanks John for the report.
Other birds of interest that I saw there: 1 Gray Catbird 2 Lazuli Bunting
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Post by Gord on Jun 20, 2020 12:13:05 GMT -8
Jamie and I heard it this morning.
Nice find, John. Interesting that Veery has used that location in the past. Murray had two singing males at one point there in 2018.
We didn't encounter the catbird but it had started to rain and we were not there long. On the catbird front, there's three singing Grey Catbirds at Hope Airport.
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Post by murraybrown on Jun 22, 2020 13:19:19 GMT -8
After trying unsuccessfully for the Veery the day before Gord went down, I gave it another try today. I'm not sure where Gord, John and Jon heard it but today it was much further along the dyke than my last encounter with it. It was both singing and calling today way down by the big-leaf maple which by a rough guess would be about 700 meters from the parking area. Not too many other species but at least 3 Swainson's Thrushes were also calling in the general area.
Murray Brown
Agassiz
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Post by Ben on Jun 22, 2020 18:43:47 GMT -8
I'm not sure where Gord, John and Jon heard it but today it was much further along the dyke than my last encounter with it. When I heard it, it was in the first stretch of trees (by the cedars on the north side), about in the middle. ~250m as per eBird. About where the pin is on this checklist: ebird.org/checklist/S70595624
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Post by murraybrown on Jun 24, 2020 12:21:46 GMT -8
That bird seems to like the cedar plantation and moves around within it. This was the farthest north I have heard it singing.
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Post by Gord on Jun 25, 2020 14:34:16 GMT -8
It was there singing away this morning. We’ve seen it closer to the big maple tree which is 300-350 meters from the gate.
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Post by ed on Jun 26, 2020 14:28:30 GMT -8
Heard near the maple tree this morn
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Post by kestrel on Jun 30, 2020 13:37:48 GMT -8
Heard again at the same spot, yesterday morning.
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Post by oldfulica on Jul 5, 2020 16:28:26 GMT -8
We heard the Veery about 50 meters south of the big maple in Agassiz July 5.
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Post by Gord on Jul 11, 2020 9:39:26 GMT -8
Jamie and I stopped by this morning and can confirm there’s two Veery there. Near the big maple we saw two fly in front of us as we approached. One flew back over and started to sing behind us while we looked at another one. We strongly suspect male and female. Pretty cool breeding record for the Fraser Valley!
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