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

Sightings for Sunday, May 30 - 9:00 PM update.

Featured Birds include:

BREWER'S SPARROW (Kelowna)

Other birds mentioned include:

Rock Wren
Olive-sided Flycatcher
GREAT EGRET
Common Nighthawk
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Great Horned Owl
Canyon Wren
Bald Eagle
Chukar
Black Swift
White-throated Swift
Vaux's Swift
Golden Eagle
Barred Owl
Black-backed Woodpecker
Williamson's Sapsucker


Sightings for May 30

Rare away from its sagebrush habitat in the South Okanagan, a BREWER'S
SPARROW was singing in a willow hedge along the S. side of Beetlestone Road
just off Benvoulin Road in Kelowna (CC).

At the Chichester Bird Sanctuary in Kelowna an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was
actively flycatching from the tops of the willows near the end of Chichester
Court (CC).

On May 29 at least 2 singing ROCK WRENS were found in Okanagan Mountain
Park, near Kelowna (GW,m.ob). The birds were on the open hillside approx. 2
km W. of the parking area along Lakeshore Road.


Sightings for May 28

In the South Okanagan, a GREAT EGRET was reported at Tuc-el-nuit Lake in
Oliver (DM).

At Robert Lake in Kelowna was a PECTORAL SANDPIPER and a SEMIPALMATED PLOVER
(RT). Three young and both adult GREAT HORNED OWLS are being seen in the
woods immediately W. of the parking area at Robert Lake (LR). At Alki Lake,
near the Kelowna dump, was a tardy LEAST SANDPIPER (RT).

The first COMMON NIGHTHAWK reported this year was near the Kelowna Airport
on May 26 (TF).


Sightings for May 27

Along McCulloch Road, in Kelowna, just beyond the Gallagher's Golf Course,
were BLACK, WHITE-THROATED and VAUX'S SWIFT (GW,m.ob). Soaring over
Layercake Mtn on McCulloch Rd was a GOLDEN EAGLE (GW,m.ob).

The pair of BALD EAGLES nesting along the N. side of Mission Ck, upstream
from Gordon Road, now has at least one chick in the nest (DB).

In the South Okanagan, the nesting BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER was reported
along the Venner Meadows Road, near km 15. In the same area were two BARRED
OWLS and a WILLIAMSON'S SAPSUCKER (CC,TL).

A CHUKAR was seen on the top of the Vaseux Cliffs, while both CANYON and
ROCK WRENS were singing there as well (CC,TL).


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Observer Initials: CC - Chris Charlesworth; RT - Ryan Tomlinson; TL - Tim
Leahy; TF - Trevor Forder; GW - Gwynneth Wilson; DB - Denise Brownlie; DM -
Donna Mackenzie; LR - Lesley Robertson.

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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