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

Sightings for Saturday, June 12 - 11:45 PM update.

*RARE BIRD ALERT for ALDER FLYCATCHER (Vernon)

Featured Birds include:

Other birds mentioned include:

BLACK-NECKED STILT
CASPIAN TERN
American Redstart
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Spruce Grouse
American Bittern
EURASIAN WIGEON
Northern Pintail
Cooper's Hawk
Red-eyed Vireo


Sightings for June 12

An ALDER FLYCATCHER was discovered E. of Vernon, near the community of
Lavington, at the intersection of Hwy 6 and Learmouth Road (DC). The bird
was calling beside the road and was present from the morning through to the
evening.


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).

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Observer Initials: RT - Ryan Tomlinson; GW - Gwynneth Wilson; BL - Barry
Lancaster; PC - Peter Candido; DC - Don Cecile.

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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