Kelowna,

Kelowna, Vernon and Sugar Lake, BC

July 16-23, 2017

We travelled to Kelowna to help celebrate Cathy's 60th birthday. We also went to their cabin at Sugar Lake, and birded around Swan Lake in Vernon. What follows is the bird photos that we made on the trip.

Kelowna

We birded in Cathy and Bruce's backyard at the foot of Knox Mountain, the waterfront at City Park, and at Mission Creek Regional Park. Here are the species we found:

American Coot
American Goldfinch
Black-billed Magpie
Black-headed Grosbeak
Brewer's Blackbird
California Quail
Cedar Waxwing
Eastern Kingbird
Eurasian Collared Dove
Great Blue Heron
House Finch
Mule Deer
Northern Flicker
Red-eyed Vireo
Osprey
Red-tailed Hawk
Song Sparrow
Wood Duck
Yellow Warbler

Sugar Lake

We drove to the cabin at Sugar Lake. We birded along the road in front of the cabin, on the lakeshore, at the dam on the outlet, and while canoeing and pontoon boating on beautiful Sugar Lake. On Cathy's birthday, we went on an amazing hike to Spectrum Lake in Monashee Provincial Park. Here are the species we found:

Alder Flycatcher
American Robin
Bald Eagle
Beaver
Black-capped Chickadee
Brown Creeper
Caliope Hummingbird
Common Loon
Common Merganser
Eastern Kingbird
Gray Catbird
Osprey
Pectoral Sandpiper
Pine Siskin
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Ring-necked Duck
Ruffed Grouse
Say's Phoebe
Spotted Sandpiper
Turkey Vulture
Varied Thrush
Violet-green Swallow
Yellow Warbler

Vernon

While Cathy and Bruce returned to town to pick up Rick, we took the other car and drove to Vernon. We studied all the possibilities and finally settled on Swan Lake. It urned out to be a good choice. We also dropped in on birding friends Andy and Marilyn for tea. Here are the species we found:

American Coot
Bald Eagle
Great Blue Heron
Greater Scaup
Greater Yellowlegs
Green-winged Teal
Killdeer
Northern Harrier
Northern Shoveller
Osprey
Savannah Sparrow
Short-billed Dowitcher
Spotted Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper