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

Sightings for Thursday, June 10 - 10:00 PM update.

Featured Birds include:

BLACK-NECKED STILT (Kelowna)
CASPIAN TERN (Kelowna)
AMERICAN REDSTART (Kelowna)

Other birds mentioned include:

Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Spruce Grouse
American Bittern
EURASIAN WIGEON
Northern Pintail
Cooper's Hawk
Red-eyed Vireo
White-throated Swift
American Avocet
American Pipit
Clay-colored Sparrow
Hooded Merganser
Long-billed Dowitcher


Sightings for June 10

A female SPRUCE GROUSE was in a clearcut along the Shuttleworth Ck Road, E.
of Ok Falls, at km 15 (PC).

On the 9th a pair of BLACK-NECKED STILTS were discovered at Alki Lake at the
Kelowna Dump (RT). Also there was a very late SOLITARY SANDPIPER and a late
GREATER YELLOWLEGS (RT).

Earlier in the week two CASPIAN TERNS were foraging over Okanagan Lake at
Sutherland Bay in Kelowna's North End (GW). Also in the North End, a first
year male AMERICAN REDSTART was in a garden along Herbert Heights Road (GW).


Sightings for June 6

On June 3, an AMERICAN BITTERN was heard at the end of the E. dyke S. of
Road 22, near Osoyoos (GW,m.ob). Also in the Road 22 region was a male
NORTHERN PINTAIL on June 6 (BL).

A male EURASIAN WIGEON was at Robert Lake on June 5 (GW).

Along Mission Creek in Kelowna, 3 singing RED-EYED VIREOS were near the
Eco-centre and a COOPER'S HAWK was reported (RT).


Sightings for June 3

A pair of CASPIAN TERNS were fishing at Vaseux Lake in the South Okanagan
(BL). Another CASPIAN TERN was seen on the N. side of Powell Beach in
Summerland (TL).

On June 2, four WHITE-THROATED SWIFTS were seen at Raven's Bluff in the
Sunnybrae Tappen area near Salmon Arm (FK).

On the first of June a lingering LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER was in the NW corner
of Alki Lake (RT). Also at Alki Lake was a female HOODED MERGANSER and a
singing CLAY-COLORED SPARROW in the Ponderosa Pines on the E. side of the
lake (RT). At Robert Lake were 4 late AMERICAN PIPITS and 10 AMERICAN
AVOCETS, including a breeding pair in the NE. corner of the lake (RT).

Birders should also be on the lookout for a GREATER YELLOWLEGS along
Shuttleworth Creek Road at about km 27.5 in a marshy area on the N. side of
the road (JF). The bird has been acting as if it may be nesting in the area
and if confirmed this would be the first nesting record for the Okanagan.


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Observer Initials: RT - Ryan Tomlinson; GW - Gwynneth Wilson; TL - Tom
Lowery; BL - Barry Lancaster; FK - Frank Kime; JF -Jamie Fenneman; PC -
Peter Candido.

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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