Today I birded Beaver Lake Road, E. of Winfield, then headed N. along Dee
Lake Road to Vernon. From there I checked the commonage and then Robert Lk
and the Chichester Bird Sanctuary back home in Kelowna. Weather was, again,
warm and sunny. Forecast is calling for a cold front on the first weekend of
September!!! Birding might just get good.

Beaver Lake Road / Dee Lk Road

Western Meadowlark 23 (in flocks on the grasslands)
Vesper Sparrow 15
Savannah Sparrow 5
California Quail 2
European Starling 1000
Mourning Dove 1
Northern Flicker 6
Barn Swallow 17
Violet-green Swallow 20
Clark's Nutcracker 16
House Finch 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 imm.
Steller's Jay 2
Common Raven 4
Cedar Waxwing 16
Lazuli Bunting 2
MacGillivray's Warbler 6
Spotted Towhee 3
Chipping Sparrow 7
Gray Catbird 1
House Wren 2
Mountain Chickadee 45
American Robin 33
Warbling Vireo 6
Yellow-rumped Warbler 96
Black-capped Chickadee 16
Orange-crowned Warbler 6
Swainson's Thrush 3
Cassin's Vireo 4
Red-breasted Nuthatch 32
Osprey 1
Dark-eyed Junco 49
Western Tanager 6
Red-naped Sapsucker 1
Hammond's Flycatcher 3
Red Crossbill 8
Western Bluebird 15 (foraging in flock with 2 mobl)
Mountain Bluebird 2
Pygmy Nuthatch 5
American Kestrel 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Townsend's Warbler 7
Golden-crowned Kinglet 30
Boreal Chickadee 6 (km 15 on Beaver Lk Road - close up looks)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 52
Red-eyed Vireo 1 (near Beaver Lake)
Wilson's Warbler 3
Gray Jay 9
Common Loon 3 (2 on Lost Lk and 1 on Dee Lk)
Nashville Warbler 4
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Yellow Warbler 1
Calliope Hummingbird 1 female at Dee Lk
Blue Grouse 1 female on roadside at km 18.1 on Dee Lk Road.
Townsend's Soltaire 1

Merlin in Vernon at intersection of Hwy 6 and Hwy 97

Rose's Pond - Vernon Commonage

Red-necked Phalarope 1
Baird's Sandpiper 5
Killdeer 10
Common Snipe 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 2
Swainson's Hawk 1
Western Wood Pewee 1

Bubna Slough - Glenmore Road in Kelowna

Eared Grebe 3 (2 ad. and one tiny chick)
Ruddy Duck 10
American Coot 50
Northern Pintail 1
Mallard 30
Bufflehead 1
Barrow's Goldeneye 1
Sora 1
Cassin's Vireo 1

Robert Lake

Red-necked Phalarope 26
Western Sandpiper 5
Least Sandpiper 25
Semipalmated Sandpiper 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 15
Pectoral Sandpiper 2
Semipalmated Plover 1 juv.
Killdeer 15

Chichester Bird Sanct.

MacGillivray's Warbler 1
Vaux's Swift 1
Savannah Sparrow 2
Yellow Warbler 1
Wood Duck 1
Blue-winged Teal 2
Cinammon Teal 1
Yellow-headed Blackbird 5
Northern Pintail 1
Virginia Rail 1

-note- As is obvious by my numbers, migration is in full swing in the upper
elevations. Flocks of mixed migrants all over the place up along Dee Lk Rd
and Beaver Lk Road. This seems to be a peek for Nashville and MacGillivray's
Warblers right now. I am seeing them both at quite a few locations.

That's all

Chris Charlesworth
Kelowna, BC





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