Subject: August 18th - Kelowna area birding
Date: Aug 18 17:55:19 2002
From: Chris Charlesworth - c_charlesworth23 at hotmail.com


Today, Ryan Tomlinson, Yvan Larche (Quebec) and I birded around Kelowna.
Migration is certainly underway in the upper elevations for passerines. In
the valley bottom passerine migration is still slow, but shorebird migration
is in full swing.

Glenmore Ponds

Eared Grebe 3
Redhead 7
American Coot 20
Ruddy Duck 3
Hooded Merganser
Mallard 25
Red Crossbill 6
Western Wood Pewee 1
European Starling 1
Mountain Chickadee 4
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Pygmy Nuthatch 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2
Green-winged Teal 5
Common Raven 10

Beaver Lake Road (Winfield)

Western Kingbird 2 feeding over field at km 3.3
American Kestrel 2
Vesper Sparrow 5
Eastern Kingbird 7
European Starling 1100 in large flock feeding in grasslands
Western Meadowlark 5
Gray Catbird 2 calling at km 5.7 in berry bushes
Spotted Towhee 1
Vaux's Swift 3
American Robin 13
Northern Flicker 2
Townsend's Warbler 5
Pygmy Nuthatch 1
Mountain Chickadee 26
Common Raven 3
Cassin's Vireo 10
Red-breasted Nuthatch 16
Black-capped Chickadee 23
Downy Woodpecker 1
Red Crossbill 9
Wilson's Warbler 7
Warbling Vireo 6
Golden-crowned Kinglet 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 5
Western Tanager 3
Chipping Sparrow 2
Nashville Warbler 2
Pine Siskin 1
Hammond's Flycatcher 2
Red-naped Sapsucker 1
Cedar Waxwing 5
House Wren 1 juv. at km 9.9 (high elevation for this species)
Dark-eyed Junco 13
Clark's Nutcracker 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 ad male at km 10.7
Orange-crowned Warbler 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1

Dee Lake Road

*Boreal Chickadee "pack" of 6 at km 3 provided point blank looks
Red-breasted Nuthatch 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 14
Townsend's Warbler 4
Mountain Chickadee 16
Golden-crowned Kinglet 21
Yellow-rumped Warbler 34
*Three-toed Woodpecker 2 (ad and juv. feeding at km 3.6
Gray Jay 6
Red Crossbill 5
Hermit Thrush 1 at km 3.6
Common Loon 2
Dark-eyed Junco 22
Northern Flicker 1
Warbling Vireo 1
Chipping Sparrow 1
Pine Siskin 1
Brown Creeper 1 at Lost Lake
Olive-sided Flycatcher 1 heard at Lost Lake
*Rusty Blackbird 1 female seen well at Dee Lake
Steller's Jay 2
Song Sparrow 1
Osprey 1 at Dee Lk
Great Blue Heron 1 at Dee Lk
Western Tanager 1
Lincoln's Sparrow 1 at Dee Lk
Barn Swallow 25 at Dee Lk

Pond at entrance to Kelowna Dump

N. Rough-winged Swallow 4
Common Raven 30
Killdeer 1
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Western Kingbird 1
Barrow's Goldeneye 2
Mallard 10
House Finch 4
Tree Swallow 2
American Crow 1
Red-necked Phalarope 4
Savannah Sparrow 2
Gadwall 1
Bufflehead 5
Merlin 1
Brewer's Blackbird 5

Robert Lake

Red-necked Phalarope 2
Baird's Sandpiper 15
Least Sandpiper 100
Pectoral Sandpiper 5
Wilson's Phalarope 5
Semipalmated Plover 1
Killdeer 5
Lesser Yellowlegs 30
Bank Swallow 10
Cliff Swallow 1
Violet-green Swallow 30
Northern Pintail 2
Blue-winged Teal 1
Cinnammon Teal 3

2 ad. Swainson's Hawks were along Old Vernon Road
1 ad. Mew Gull at MacDonald's in Rutland

Rotary Marshes (Kelowna - downtown)

Belted Kingfisher 1
Violet-green Swallow 10
Barn Swallow 5
Bank Swallow 12
N. Rough-winged Swallow 5
*Common Tern 2 ad.
Ring-billed Gull 5
Great Blue Heron 1
Common Merganser 1
Osprey 4
Eastern Kingbird 1
Canada Goose 1

Total species for day = 100




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