Hi Tweeters,

for me, B.C. north of Vancouver is still a vast, unknown (and sparsely
birded) continent. All the more exciting is it to find that another data
point was collected at Green Lake/Cache Creek, 'only' 150km E of our weekend
destination, Cerise Creek (30km E of Pemberton, 50km SW of Lilloet,
altitude 1200 to 1900m). Spring tempereatures meant spring skiing/
snowshoeing and singing (or calling) birds.
Highlights were singing Townsend's Solitaires (I wouldn't have associated
them with a habitat at the edge of a glacier), a (1 or several?) Western
Screech Owl calling in the mild night, and yellow-rumped Warbler. The
question whether Clark's Nutcracker occur up there resolved itself, too.

(List by Geoff & David Cattrall and me - 20/21/4/96. Observations at
the higher elevation are marked as 'h')
Blue Grouse
W.Screech Owl 1 h
Pileated Woodpecker 1 h
Gray Jay h
Clark's Nutcracker
Mountain Chickadee h
Red-breasted Nuthatch h
Winter Wren
Am. Robin
Varied Thrush h
Townsend's Solitaire h
Yellow-rumped Warbler h
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco h

Reto Riesen h
Dept. Chem., UBC
Vancouver, B.C.