BRITISH COLUMBIA 
Rare in British Columbia, this Brown Thrasher was banded 
at Colony Farm, Vancouver on 6 June 2009. Photograph by 
Derek Matthews. 
found in Cecil Green Park at the University of 
British Columbia in Vancouver 9 May (PC). A 
male Black-throated Blue Warbler was pho- 
tographed on Hornby I. 26 Mar (fide Neil 
Robins). A male Hermit Warbler x 
Townsend’s Warbler hybrid was pho- 
tographed in Belcarra Park in Port Moody 26 
May (Hilary Macguire). A mini-invasion of 
Black-throated Green Warblers was noted in 
tbe forests e. of Prince George this breeding 
season. On 21 Jun, one or 2 were found on 
the Bowron Rd. QB et al), another was on 
Buckhorn Lake Rd. 23 Jun (GM), and up to 5 
were on the Bowron Rd. 23 Jun QB). Stray 
Blackpoll Warblers turned up in several loca- 
tions in s. British Columbia. A male was seen 
in a yard in Oliver 23 May (BMc); a singing 
male was found in Beach Grove Park in Delta 
29 Jun (DT); a male was found in the Maple- 
wood area of Victoria 26 May (EP). A Yellow- 
breasted Chat singing in Beach Grove Park in 
Delta 13-18 Jun was a nice find (Roger Mey- 
er, m.ob.). A pair of American Redstarts was 
found in Pitt Meadows 20 Jun (LC, m.ob.). 
British Columbia’s first Summer Tanager, 
found and photographed near Blue River 8 
May (Michele Humphrey), was quickly fol- 
lowed by the province’s 2nd, near Golden in 
the Rocky Mts. 11 Jun (DB). The Blue R. bird 
was a first-year male, and the Golden bird was 
an ad. male. A Green-tailed Towhee was 
found singing in an orchard in Osoyoos 28 
May (DB). A female Lark Bunting was found 
in the parking lot at Botanical Beach, s. Van- 
couver 1. 20 Jun (BM, MM). At Viaduct Flats 
in Victoria, a Swamp Sparrow was present 26 
Mar-10 Apr (RS). In Hazelton, an imm. Har- 
ris’s Sparrow visited a feeder 8 Mar (Ray Stur- 
ney). Single White-throated Sparrows ap- 
peared throughout s. British Columbia; Stan- 
ley Park in Vancouver 1 May 1 (CT); Burnaby 
Mountain Park, Burnaby 3 May (DP); Grant 
Narrows near Pitt L. 3 May QR); at a feeder in 
North Vancouver 5 May (QB); and in the gar- 
dens at Emily Carr House, Victoria 2 Mar 
(Rhys Harrison). A Snow Bunting was at 
Clover Pt., Victoria 21 Mar (DA). 
A rare but regular visitor to the s. part of the 
province, a male Rose-breasted Grosbeak was 
at a feeder in Johnson’s Landing in the Koote- 
nays 20 May (GS). In the Prince George area, 
male Rose-breasted Grosbeaks visited feeders 
23 May (BS); 25 May (Mary Antoniazzi); and 
29 May, with one at a Fort St. James feeder (fide 
Joanne Vinnedge). Several Indigo Buntings ap- 
peared this spring, all but one of them ad. 
males. A female was seen at Buttle L., Vancou- 
ver 1. 13-14 Jun (GM). Males were found in 
Lillooet 28 May (Kansas Allen), near the Dot 
Ranch near Merritt 17 Jun (WW), and in Pa- 
cific Rim N.P. at Florencia Bay 5 May (Bob 
Steventon). On 27 Apr, a Western Meadowlark 
was on the grass in Hastings Park in Vancou- 
ver (DHC). A reliable Rusty Blackbird kept 
birders happy at Maplewood Flats in North 
Vancouver 5-30 May (RL, QB, m.ob.). Two 
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches were at Blackie 
Spit in White Rock 13-15 May (BS, m.ob.), and 
one was atop Mt. Douglas in Victoria 20 May 
(BB). Large flocks of Common Redpolls were 
present during the late winter around Prince 
George. Seven Hoary Redpolls were also re- 
ported between 14 Mar and 20 Apr in the 
Prince George area OG, CCo, Margaret Bathy). 
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