Subject: Birding on Feb 10
Date: Feb 10 19:45:55 2004
From: Chris Charlesworth - c_charlesworth23 at hotmail.com


Birders,

Ryan Tomlinson and I did a marathon birding run in the South Okanagan. We
left Kelowna in the darkness and began before dawn on Shuttleworth Ck Road,
E. of Okanagan Falls. Our attempts to locate owls were fruitless. At first
light we logged our first species, Common Redpoll, then located other good
boreal birds before descending to the sunny valley bottom. We then worked
our way to Osoyoos, via River Road and headed into the Anarchist burn. After
lunch we birded the Okanagan River back to Oliver and White Lk, then scoured
the Penticton Yacht Club as light faded. We got our last bird, a Great
Horned Owl, along Benvoulin Road in Kelowna.

Pied-billed Grebe (Osoyoos Lk)
Horned Grebe (Okanagan Lk)
Great Blue Heron (Skaha Lk)
Canada Goose
Trumpeter Swan (Vaseux Lk)
Gadwall (Ok Riv)
Am. Wigeon
Mallard
Green-winged Teal (Osoyoos Lk, Hack's Pond)
Canvasback (Ok Lk in Penticton)
Redhead (Ok Riv)
Ring-necked Duck (Ok Riv)
Greater Scaup (Ok Riv)
Bufflehead (a hundred on Ok Riv)
Common Goldeneye (Ok Riv)
Barrow's Goldeneye (Ok Riv)
Common Merganser (Osoyoos Lk, Ok Riv)
RED-BREASTED MERGANSER (2 m&f at N. end of Osoyoos Lk)
Bald Eagle (River Rd, Rd 22)
Northern Harrier (Black Sage Rd)
Sharp-shinned Hawk (Black Sage Rd)
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Merlin (Shuttleworth Rd)
PRAIRIE FALCON (1 soaring overhead at the "throne")
Ring-necked Pheasant (River Road)
California Quail
Virginia Rail (Hack's Pond)
American Coot
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull (3 at S. end of Skaha Lk)
Rock Pigeon
Great Horned Owl (Benvoulin Road)
Northern Pygmy-Owl (1 on River Road)
Downy Woodpecker (River Rd, 5 on Anarchist)
Hairy Woodpecker (10+ on Anarchist)
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker (Shuttleworth, 3 on Anarchist)
Northern Shrike (Rd 22, Black Sage Rd, White Lk Rd)
Gray Jay (Shuttleworth Rd)
Steller's Jay (Anarchist)
Clark's Nutcracker (Shuttleworth Rd, Anarchist)
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee (Rd 22)
Mountain Chickadee (Shuttleworth, Anarchist)
Boreal Chickadee (2 on Shuttleworth Rd)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (shuttleworth Rd, Anarchist)
Pygmy Nuthatch (shuttleworth Rd, Anarchist)
White-breasted Nuthatch (shuttleworth Rd, Anarchist)
Brown Creeper (Shuttleworth Rd, Anarchist)
Canyon Wren (2 Vaseux Cliffs)
American Dipper (Ok Riv)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (Shuttleworth Rd)
Townsend's Solitaire (Black Sage Rd, White Lk Rd)
HERMIT THRUSH (Esplanade Trail)
American Robin (River Rd)
White-crowned Sparrow (River Rd)
Spotted Towhee (1 male on River Rd)
Red-winged Blackbird
Pine Grosbeak (30 on Shuttleworth Rd)
House Finch
Red Crossbill (shuttleworth Rd, Anarchist)
White-winged Crossbill (1 female on Shuttleworth Rd)
Common Redpoll (2 on Shuttleworth Rd)
House Sparrow

We totalled 72 species and I got three year birds (Spotted Towhee, Prairie
Falcon and Red-breasted Merganser). We had some big misses too like Mourning
Dove, Am. Goldfinch, Brewer's Blackbird etc. Definitely a great day of
birding though.

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

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