This is the Okanagan Valley (BC) Rare Bird Alert (250-491-7738).


Sightings for Monday, August 4 - 11:00 PM update.


Featured Birds Include:

WESTERN SANDPIPER (Vernon)
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER (Vernon)
PEREGRINE FALCON (Vernon)
COMMON TERN (Kelowna)

Other birds mentioned include:

Wilson's Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Merlin
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Greater Yellowlegs
Red-necked Phalarope
Wilson's Snipe
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Phalarope
Northern Pintail
CLARK'S GREBE
White-winged Scoter
LITTLE STINT


Sightings for August 4

Shorebirding continues to be good at Mackay's Reservoir on the Vernon
Commonage. Today there were 2 juv. WESTERN SANDPIPERS, 2 SEMIPALMATED
SANDPIPERS, 8 LEAST SANDPIPERS, 1 juv. BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, 2 SOLITARY
SANDPIPERS, 3 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, 1 WILSON'S SNIPE, 1 juv. RED-NECKED
PHALAROPE, 5 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 2 LESSER YELLOWLEGS and 15 KILLDEER
(CC,CoC,TF). A PEREGRINE FALCON was at the reservoir on August 2 (HV).

At Rawlings Lake, near Lumby, there were 2 ad. LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS, along
with WESTERN, LEAST and SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS and 2 juv. RED-NECKED
PHALAROPES (CC,CoC).

The E. pond at the Chichester Bird Sanctuary, in Kelowna, had 3 SOLITARY
SANDPIPERS and an early migrant WILSON'S WARBLER and a YELLOW-RUMPED
WARBLER. A male MERLIN was closely watching the Solitary Sandpipers from the
top of a willow (CC,CoC).

On August 2, an adult COMMON TERN was seen flying over the log booms off
Sutherland Park in Kelowna (HV).


Sightings for July 31

A juvenile RED-NECKED PHALAROPE was at MacKay's Reservoir on the Vernon
Commonage along with 2 WILSON'S PHALAROPE, 4 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS and 3
LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS (CC). Also on the reservoir, amongst a few hundred
ducks was a female NORTHERN PINTAIL (CC).


Sightings for July 28

In Salmon Arm, the resident adult CLARK'S GREBE was seen from the Salmon Arm
Pier (LN).

A WHITE-WINGED SCOTER was on Okanagan Lake on the N. side of Poplar Point in
Kelowna (GW).

In Vancouver, a breeding plumage LITTLE STINT was at the Iona Sewage Ponds
on the 27 and 28th of July (fide RT). Call the Vancouver Rare Bird Alert for
more information (604) 737-3074.



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Observer Initials: CC - Chris Charlesworth; LN - Laure Neish; GW - Gwynneth
Wilson; RT - Rick Toochin; HV - Hank Vanderpol; CoC - Connor Charlesworth;
TF - Trevor Forder.


If you have any questions about Okanagan Valley birding, contact Chris
Charlesworth, in Kelowna, at (250) 718-0335, Dick Cannings, in Penticton, at
(250) 496-4019, or Phil Gehlen, in Vernon, at (250) 542-8053.

This update has been sponsored by the TUMBLEWEED NATURE STORE at 67 Front
Street in Penticton.


CHRIS CHARLESWORTH
AVOCET TOURS
725 RICHARDS ROAD
KELOWNA, BC, CANADA
V1X 2X5
WWW.AVOCETTOURS.COM
C_CHARLESWORTH at AVOCETTOURS.COM

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