Subject: Kelowna, BC, birding
Date: May 8 15:39:39 2002
From: Chris Charlesworth - c_charlesworth23 at hotmail.com


Birders,

This morning I got up early and went out around Kelowna. Finally it has
warmed up a few degrees!

Beaver Lake Road

Vesper Sparrow 25
American Kestrel 1
Northern Flicker
European Starling
Western Meadowlark
California Quail
Spotted Towhee 3
Clark's Nutcracker 1
Savannah Sparrow 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Tree Swallow
Yellow-rumped Warbler
White-crowned Sparrow
American Robin
Mountain Bluebird 5
Western Bluebird 5
Black-billed Magpie
Dusky Flycatcher 1
Common Raven
Pygmy Nuthatch
Black-capped Chickadee
Warbling Vireo 1 calling (first of yr)
Mountain Chickadee
House Wren 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Nashville Warbler 1
Brown-headed Cowbird
Red-naped Sapsucker 5
Pine Siskin
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Downy Woodpecker 1
Ring-necked Pheasant
Ruffed Grouse 1 drumming
Townsend's Warbler 2
Steller's Jay
Red Crossbill
Chipping Sparrow 2
Cassin's Vireo 2 singing (first of yr)
Varied Thrush
Dark-eyed Junco
Brown Creeper 2 singing
Winter Wren
Evening Grosbeak
Pileated Woodpecker
Turkey Vulture 2 perched on snag
Barn Swallow
Bald Eagle 1 second yr
Say's Phoebe 1

Robert Lake

Semipalmated Plover 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper 1
Western Sandpiper 1
Least Sandpiper 10
Pectoral Sandpiper 10
Killdeer 8
American Avocet 18
Lesser Yellowlegs 8
Wilson's Phalarope 6
Long-billed Dowitcher 5
Yellow-headed Blackbird 10
Yellow-rumped Warbler 4
House Finch 3
Western Bluebird 2
American Coot 10
Lesser Scaup 15
Ring-necked Duck 1 male
Green-winged Teal 15
Northern Shoveler 50
Gadwall 20
Savannah Sparrow 1
Greater Scaup 1 male
California Quail 2
Tree Swallow 10
Cliff Swallow 2
Black-billed Magpie 1
White-crowned Sparrow 1
American Goldfinch 1
Bonaparte's Gull 1
Red-winged Blackbird 12
Western Kingbird 1
Pine Siskin 1
Eared Grebe 12
Bufflehead 2
Redhead 10
Mall 10
Canada Goose 12 (4 newly hatched gosselings)
Northern Pintail 4
Ruddy Duck 40
American Pipit 10
American Robin 10
Barn Swallow 5
Violet-green Swallow 5
Bank Swallow 12
European Starling 2
Northern Flicker 1

Kelowna Dump & Alki Lake

Bonaparte's Gull 10 on entrance pond
Solitary Sandpiper 1
Spotted Sandpiper 2 (first of yr)
American Avocet 8

3 White-throated Swifts were over Dilworth Mtn in Kelowna.

Maude Roxby Bird Sanct.

Song Sparrow 10 (nest found with 3 half grown chicks)
Mew Gull 1 ad.
Bonapate's Gull 16
Cedar Waxwing 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 10
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Virginia Rail 1
Dusky Flycatcher 2
Western Tanager 1
Mallard 10 (13 new ducklings)
Savannah Sparrow 1
Vesper Sparrow 1
Osprey 1

1 Merlin was at Pandosy and Lakeshore in Kelowna!

Total 97 species

Chris Charlesworth
Kelowna, BC

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