This is the Okanagan Valley Rare Bird Alert, sponsored by Avocet Tours
(www.avocettours.com).

Sightings for Monday, February 7 - AM update

Featured Birds include:

PACIFIC LOON (Osoyoos)
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE (Oliver)
NORTHERN HAWK OWL (Armstrong)
VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW (Osoyoos)
BARN SWALLOW (Osoyoos)

Other birds mentioned:

Canada Goose
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW
SNOW GOOSE
ICELAND GULL
Glaucous Gull
Gyrfalcon
Red-breasted Merganser
Snow Bunting
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Wood Duck
Canyon Wren


Sightings for February 7

In Osoyoos on Feb 5, a single VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW and 2 BARN SWALLOWS were
seen at Road 22 (DB).

Two PACIFIC LOONS were seen on Osoyoos Lake from Lions Park (the N. traffic
light in town). (DB).

A GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was along Sawmill Road in Oliver with CANADA
GEESE (ED,DH).

Three female RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS were seen from the mouth of Vernon Ck
in Okanagan Landing on Feb 6 (CS).

On Feb 4, a NORTHERN SHRIKE was at the Rotary Marshes in downtown Kelowna
(DW).

The GYRFALCON was seen at Marshall's Feedlot in Kelowna on Feb 6 (TF). The
feedlot is along the W. side of Hwy 97, in N. Kelowna, just S. of McCurdy
Road.

Trevor Forder's feeder on Black Road in Ellison had the continuing
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW on the 6th (TF).


Sightings for February 3

In Vernon, at the mouth of Vernon Ck, was an adult ICELAND GULL and a
GLAUCOUS GULL (DC).

The NORTHERN HAWK-OWL was again seen along Highland Park Drive, S.of Sleepy
Hollow Road in Armstrong (CS).

A SNOW GOOSE was with CANADA GEESE in fields along the S. end of Sawmill
Road in Oliver (DB).


Sightings for February 1

The NORTHERN HAWK-OWL was again seen just N. of Armstrong along Highland
Park Road (PB). Search for the bird atop telephone poles and trees just S.
of the Sleepy Hollow Road intersection.

The grasslands on the S. side of Black Mountain, E. of Kelowna produced 2
calling SNOW BUNTINGS (CC).

CANYON WRENS have been reported on both January 31 and February 1 at the
cliffs at the bottom of Bear Lake Road, off Westside Road (LR,MF).

Upstream from Casorso Road along Mission Ck on the 31st of January was a
RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET with BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEES and at least 8 WOOD DUCKS
on a small creek behind St. Charles Garnier Church on Benvoulin Road in
Kelowna (CC).


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Observers: CC - Chris Charlesworth; TF - Trevor Forder; DB - Doug Brown; LR
- Lesley Robertson; PB - Peter Blokker; DW - Doreen Wierenga; ED - Eva
Durance; DH - Donna Heard; CS - Chris Siddle.

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