This is the Okanagan Valley (BC) Bird Alert (250-491-7738), sponsored by The
Land Conservancy of BC.

Sightings for Tuesday, August 10 - midnight update

Featured Birds include:

STILT SANDPIPER (Kelowna)
SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER (Kelowna)
FRANKLIN'S GULL (Westbank}

Other birds mentioned include:

Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Semipalmated Plover
ALDER FLYCATCHER
Black Swift
Clay-colored Sparrow
American White Pelican
Black Tern
CLARK'S GREBE

Sightings for August 11

Amongst Yellowlegs at Robert Lake this evening was a juvenile STILT
SANDPIPER (RT,CC,BC). Also there were 2 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS, an adult
and a juvenile (CC,RT,BC).

A juv. FRANKLIN'S GULL was in a mixed flock of CALIFORNIA GULLS and
RING-BILLED GULLS at Shannon Lake Park in Westbank (MF).

In Kelowna, 2 juv. SOLITARY SANDPIPERS were on the ponds in Sutherland Hills
Regional Park (CC,RT).


Sightings for August 10

Shorebirds at Robert Lake in Kelowna included a SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, a
LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, many BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, a PECTORAL SANDPIPER, a
SOLITARY SANDPIPER and a SEMIPALMATED PLOVER (CC).


Sightings for August 6

In Salmon Arm the ALDER FLYCATCHER continues to sing near the outhouse along
the trail to Christmas Island (CC,MF).

Two adult CLARK'S GREBES were seen in Salmon Arm; one from Christmas Island
and one from the pier (CC,MF).

>From the Nature Park at the foot of Narcisse Road in Salmon Arm the two
AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS continue as well as a few hundred assorted
shorebirds. Two juv. BLACK TERNS were foraging over the water and 4
FRANKLIN'S GULLS were loafing with big numbers of gulls on the mudflats.
Overhead were at least 20 BLACK SWIFTS (CC,MF).

On the Vernon Commonage at the intersection of Commonage Rd and Bench Row Rd
were 5 CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS (CC,MF).



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Observer Initials: CC - Chris Charlesworth; TF - Trevor Forder; MF - Mike
Force; RT - Ryan Tomlinson; BC - Bill Cutfield.

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

Chris Charlesworth
Avocet Tours
725 Richards Road
Kelowna, BC, Canada
V1X 2X5
(250) 718-0335
c_charlesworth at avocettours.com
www.avocettours.com

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