I recently returned from a flyfishing trip to Eliguk Lake with birding as
possible from a boat or on trails to two other lakes. Eliguk L. is about 300
miles north of Vancouver, BC--50 mile north of Nimpo L. (a fly-in only lake)
and 15 miles east of Tweedsmuir Provincial Park. I saw/heard 47 species. This
the most I've seen in about nine trips.

Canada Goose
American Wigeon
Green-winged Teal - 1st I've seen there
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Surf Scoter
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser - 1st sighting
Common Merganser
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Spruce Grouse
Ruffed Grouse
Common Snipe - including one perched on top of a 20' spruce tree constantly
singing
chipa-chipa-chipa-chipa
Greater Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Herring Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Common Loon - a no. on lake, saw one nest with one light brown and one black
egg.
Great Horned Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Three-toed Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Western Wood-Pewee
Gray Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Varied Thrush
American Robin
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Bushtit - 1st sighting
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Black-capped Chickadee
Yellow Warbler - 1st sighting
Yellow-rumped Warbler - all over the place
Blackpoll Warbler - 1st sighting
Common Yellowthroat
American Redstart - 1st sighting
Dark-eyed Junco
Chipping Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird

Hugh Jennings
Bellevue, WA
hughbirder at aol.com