Subject: Christmas Bird Counts
Date: Jan 1 22:23:31 2003
From: Chris Charlesworth - c_charlesworth23 at hotmail.com


Birders,

I've taken part in 4 Okanagan Valley Christmas Bird Counts this month,
starting with the Kelowna CBC on the 14th, the Vernon CBC on the 15th, the
Vaseux Lk CBC on the 21st and the Lake Country CBC on the 29th. The Okanagan
is located in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada and I've put
together a list below of all the species I saw collectively on the 4 CBC and
on which counts I saw them. Just so people can get a bit of an idea of which
birds winter here.


*Pacific Loon (Lake Country)
Common Loon (Vernon, Lake Country)
Pied-billed Grebe (Vernon, Lk Country)
Horned Grebe (Vernon, Lk Country)
Red-necked Grebe (Vernon, Lk Country)
Western Grebe (Vernon, Lk Country)
Great Blue Heron (Vernon, Lk Country, Kelowna)
Canada Goose (Kelowna, Vernon, Lk Country, Vaseux)
Trumpeter Swan (Vaseux)
Gadwall (Lk Country, Vernon)
American Wigeon (Vernon, Lk Country, Kelowna)
Mallard (Vernon, Kelowna, Lk Country)
Green-winged Teal (Kelowna)
Canvasback (Vernon)
Redhead (Lk Country, Vernon)
Ring-necked Duck (Kelowna, Vernon, Lk Country)
Greater Scaup (Vernon, Lk Country)
*White-winged Scoter (Kelowna) FIRST FOR COUNT
Bufflehead (Kelowna, Vernon, Lk Country)
Common Goldeneye (Kelowna, Vernon, Lk Country)
Barrow's Goldeneye (Lk Country)
Hooded Merganser (Kelowna, Vernon, Lk Country)
Common Merganser (Kelowna, Vernon, Lk Country)
Bald Eagle (Vernon, Lk Country)
Northern Harrier (Vernon, Kelowna)
Sharp-shinned Hawk (Vernon, Kelowna, Lk Country)
Cooper's Hawk (Vernon, Lk Country)
Red-tailed Hawk (Vernon, Kelowna, Lk Country, Vaseux)
Rough-legged Hawk (Vernon)
Golden Eagle (Vernon)
American Kestrel (Vernon, Kelowna)
Merlin (Vernon, Kelowna, Lk Country)
*Chukar (Vaseux)
Ring-necked Pheasant (Kelowna, Vernon)
Ruffed Grouse (Vaseux)
California Quail (Kelowna, Vernon, Vaseux, Lk Country)
*Virginia Rail (Kelowna)
American Coot (Vernon, Lk Country)
*Wilson's Snipe (Kelowna)
*Mew Gull (Vernon)
Ring-billed Gull (Kelowna, Vernon)
California Gull (Vernon, Kelowna)
Herring Gull (Kelowna, Vernon, Lk Country)
*Thayer's Gull (Kelowna, Vernon)
**Lesser Black-backed Gull (Vernon) FIRST FOR CBC IN PROVINCE!
Glaucous-winged Gull (Vernon, Lk Country)
Rock Dove (Kelowna, Vernon, Lk Country, Vaseux)
Mourning Dove (Kelowna, Vernon, Lk Country)
Northern Pygmy-Owl (Lk Country, Vaseux)
Belted Kingfisher (Kelowna, Vernon, Lk Country)
Downy Woodpecker (Kelowna, Vernon, Lake Country, Vaseux)
Hairy Woodpecker (Lk Country, Vaseux)
Northern Flicker (Vernon, Kelowna, Lk Country, Vaseux)
Pileated Woodpecker (Lk Country, Vaseux)
Northern Shrike (Lake Country)
Steller's Jay (Kelowna, Lake Country, Vernon)
Clark's Nutcracker (Kelowna, Vernon, Lake Country, Vaseux)
Black-billed Magpie (Vernon, Kelowna, Lake Country, Vaseux)
American Crow (Vernon, Kelowna, Lk Country, Vaseux)
Common Raven (Vernon, Kelowna, Lk Country, Vaseux)
Black-capped Chickadee (Vernon, Kelowna, Lk Country, Vaseux)
Mountain Chickadee (Vernon, Kelowna, Lk Country, Vaseux)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (Kelowna, Vernon, Lk Country, Vaseux)
White-breasted Nuthatch (Lk Country, Vaseux)
Pygmy Nuthatch (Kelowna, Vernon, Lk Country, Vaseux)
Brown Creeper (Kelowna)
*Canyon Wren (Vaseux)
Winter Wren (Kelowna)
Marsh Wren (Kelowna, Vaseux)
American Dipper (Kelowna)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (Kelowna, Vernon, Lk Country, Vaseux)
*Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Kelowna)
*Western Bluebird (Kelowna)
American Robin (Kelowna, Vernon, Lk Country)
Townsend's Solitaire (Vernon, Lk Country, Vaseux)
European Starling (Kelowna, Vernon, Lk Country)
*Spotted Towhee (Lk Country)
Song Sparrow (Kelowna, Vernon, Lk Country, Vaseux)
*Swamp Sparrow (Lk Country)
White-crowned Sparrow (Kelowna, Lk Country)
Dark-eyed Junco (Kelowna, Vernon, Lk Country, Vaseux)
Red-winged Blackbird (Kelowna, Lk Country)
Brewer's Blackbird (Kelowna)
House Finch (Kelowna, Lk Country, Vernon, Vaseux)
Red Crossbill (Kelowna, Lk Country, Vaseux)
American Goldfinch (Kelowna, Vernon, Lk Country)
House Sparrow (Kelowna, Vernon, Lk Country, Vaseux)

Total collective CBC species for me: 88


Chris Charlesworth
Kelowna, BC, Canada





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