Birders,

Sorry for the last message, but I hit send before I was finished.

Ryan Tomlinson and I spent Saturday night, all of Sunday and Monday morning
camping in the S. Okanagan, in BC. We camped at Okanagan Falls Campground,
where there are a few good birds right in the site! The weather was alright,
for the most part, but chilly at night and breezy during the day. We had
many good birds! Capitilized birds are rare; birds preceeded by (*) were
year birds for me!


*PACIFIC LOON 1 basic plumage at Gellatly Bay in Westbank (04/22/02)
Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
*Eared Grebe 5 at Robert Lake in Kelowna (04/22/02)
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Green-winged Teal
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
EURASIAN WIGEON 1 male at Maude Roxby in Kelowna (04/22/02)
American Wigeon
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Common Goldeneye
Barrow's Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
*Swainson's Hawk 1 on Old Vernon Rd in Kelowna (04/22/02)
Red-tailed Hawk
Golden Eagle 1 imm. at White Lake (04/21/02)
American Kestrel
Gray Partridge 2 on Twin Lakes Rd (04/21/02)
Chukar 1 heard at Vaseux Lake (04/22/02)
Ring-necked Pheasant
Blue Grouse 2 heard on White Lake Rd (04/21/02)
Ruffed Grouse 2 heard on White Lk Rd (04/21/02)
California Quail
Virginia Rail 1 calling at Rd 22 in Osoyoos (04/21/02)
American Coot
Sandhill Crane 400 on White Lake early in the morning (04/22/02)
Killdeer
American Avocet 3 at Robert Lake (04/22/02)
Greater Yellowlegs
*Lesser Yellowlegs 4 at Robert Lake (04/22/02)
Common Snipe
*Bonaparte's Gull 1 at Robert Lake (04/22/02)
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Western Screech-Owl 1 heard on White Lk Rd (04/21/02)
Great Horned Owl 1 on White Lk Road (04/21/22)
*BOREAL OWL 1 calling at Rabbit Lake on Shuttleworth Rd (04/20/02)
Northern Saw-whet Owl 1 on Shuttleworth Ck Rd (04/20/02)
White-throated Swift 30 at Vaseux Lk (04/21/02)
*Calliope Hummingbird 1 female at Ok Falls Campground (04/21/02)
Red-naped Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Say's Phoebe
Horned Lark 2 at White Lk (04/21/02)
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
N. Rough-winged Swallow
*Bank Swallow 1 at Rd 22 (04/21/02)
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Steller's Jay
Clark's Nutcracker
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Mountain Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Canyon Wren
House Wren
Marsh Wren
American Dipper
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Western Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird
Townsend's Solitaire
American Robin
American Pipit
European Starling
*Nashville Warbler 1 at Ok Falls Campground (04/22/02)
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
*Chipping Sparrow 1 at Haynes Point Eco Reserve near Osoyoos (04/21/02)
Vesper Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
*Lincoln's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE 1 male in Kelowna
Cassin's Finch
House Finch
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

119 species

My year list for the Okanagan Valley is now at 177 species.

That's all folks,

Chris Charlesworth
Kelowna, BC

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