Birding in BC Community

We first saw 2 outside my parents house in Westmount (kamloops) a couple years ago and since then they have about 6 or so that are always there... My fiance and I moved into our house in Westsyde in April and we have seen about 5 or 6 in the tree outside our bedroom window.

I'm in ladner, and see two daily. My neighbor said he did a count of 20 + on his way out to Westham island a few months back.

There are a pair of Eurasian Collarded Doves living on Orchard Drive and the nearby part of Marshall Road in Abbotsford for well over a year now.....I see them constantly.

I saw three at Winter Harbour up at the north end of Vancouver Island at the end of June. I was surprised when I got a good look at them as I had thought I had glimpsed Band Tailed Pigeons earlier. They were there a year earlier as well.

We have recently had a Eurasian collared dove come to our yard in Cranbrook - he is a lovely looking bloke! Never have seen the likes of this bird in our community before.

I live on a farm in Abbotsford and have them on the yard. Matter of fact I see them all over the Fraser Valley.

They are here in our garden, Victoria.

I have a pair at my feeder in Mcleese Lake and a friend has at least 12 birds that come to his farm in Quesnel..They have been here for at least 10 years in the cariboo. From Florida to BC that's a long flight and well established for a exotic species..I was at a Goshawk nest here several years ago and the male brought a ECD to the nest..In the middle of no where..

Lee

Saw one at Reifel:

Has anyone seen any EC doves with leg bands on them? A mourning dove came to my feeders last year and it had a leg band??? just wondering.

I always look for bands on birds as I use to trap and band raptors years ago..

Lee

A new mated pair of what appears to me to be 'Red Collared' Doves are nesting in a black spruce tree in my back yard here in The Village of Boundary Bay. By my best guess, doves have been in this area for the last 3 or 4 years.

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I have had one visiting me in my garden and on my deck the last week coming very close to me! We live in Central Saanich

Seems EUCD are becoming common in the Greater Victoria area in recent years.

North Vancouver is saturated with Eurasian Collared-Dove, they are everywhere!

I have several around me in Lower Lonsdale, on my street block!

I have a nesting pair in my backyard here in Campbell River.... and yes, we constantly hear them cooing every morning.