Subject: Similkameen Valley, BC-birds and mammals
Date: Aug 21 12:13:24 2002
From: B. A. Wolfe - gismybabe at yahoo.com
Hi tweets!
My wife and I just got back from the Similkameen Valley in southern BC. Gloriously beautiful place! We spent a couple of days there and were able to do some birding. Our full list follows. There were a few species we were unable to ID, either due to our lack of ability or to the birds not cooperating and flitting away to quickly. We are pretty sure we could at least add Golden Eagle to this list, but alas, it disappeared over the trees before we could make sure of the ID. Woulda been new to our list too! *sigh*
Anyway, here is the list, including those that were newbies to our personal list. Only been birding semi-seriously for a year or so, so some may seem like "basic" birds, but all birds are good. Here it is:
Birds
Mountain Bluebird-new
Western Bluebird-new
Great Blue Heron
Mallard Duck
American Robin
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Townsend's Warbler
Eastern Kingbird-new
Western Kingbird-new
Common Yellowthroat
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Clark's Nutcracker
Dark-eyed Junco (both Oregon and Slate-headed subspecies)
Gray Jay-new
Savannah Sparrow-new
Song Sparrow
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Mourning Dove
Stellar's Jay
Black-capped Chickadee
Mountain Chickadee-new
European Starling
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Raven
American Crow
Cedar Waxwing
Black-billed Magpie
Varied Thrush
Common Nighthawk
Turkey Vulture
Killdeer
Solitary Sandpiper-new
Blue Grouse
California Quail
Belted Kingfisher
Red Crossbill-new
Canyon Wren-new
American Goldfinch
Yellow-rumped Warbler (both Myrtle and Audubon's subspecies)
Western Meadowlark
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch-new
Mammals
Coyote
White-tail Deer
Mountain Goat
Bats (too dark to tell, but they were tiny guys)
Cascade Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel
Columbian Ground Squirrel
Chickaree aka Douglas Squirrel
Yellow Pine Chipmunk
Woodchuck
Have a good one everybody! And if you ever get a chance, this area is only about 270 miles from Seattle.
Brett A. Wolfe
Seattle, WA
gismybabe at yahoo.com
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