This is the Okanagan Valley (BC) Rare Bird Alert sponsored by the Central
Okanagan Naturalists Club.

Sightings for Saturday, May 15 - midnight update

Featured Birds Include:

DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT (Kelowna)

Other birds mentioned:

WHITE-WINGED SCOTER
SURF SCOTER
Western Grebe

Sightings for May 15

Two DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS were seen at the N. end of Duck Lake in
Kelowna (JM).


Sightings for May 13

The annual gathering of WESTERN GREBES on Okanagan Lake off the Maude Roxby
Bird Sanctuary is underway with about 500 birds present on the 13th (CC,RT).
Also with them was a male WHITE-WINGED SCOTER and a pair of SURF SCOTERS
(CC,RT).

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If you have any questions about birding in the Okanagan Valley call Chris
Charlesworth in Kelowna at (250) 718-0335, Dick Cannings in Penticton at
(250) 496-4019, or Phil Gehlen in Vernon at (250) 542-8053.

Observers Initials: CC - Chris Charlesworth; RT - Ryan Tomlinson; JM - James
McGregor.