Coquihalla birds

[ed]

I couldn't find a map sufficiently clear enough(for me) to determine if my excursion to the Coquihalla Mtn area was within the Fraser Valley area for birding. I'll leave it for others(Gord?) to determine.
Anyway, Some nice birds seen.
2 Golden Eagles, one adult, one juvenile.
10-12 Mountain Bluebirds
Lots of Am. Robins
Several Sooty Grouse
8-10 American Pipit
Gray jay
3 Chestnut-backed Chikadee
3 Mountain Chickadee
5 Stellers Jay
4 Clark's Nutcracker
25 Common Raven
1 Downie Woodpecker
1 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
Northern Flicker
2 varied Thrush
Song Sparrow
4 Townsend's Solitaire
many Yellow-rumped Warblers
Red-breasted Nuthatch, 3-4 seen or heard
Dark-eyed Juncos
Pine Siskins
American Goldfinch

[Chris]

I don't know if this helps, but the map goes up to just past where the toll boths were. Did you look at the map of the Fraser Valley Birding region? Here is a link to it which might help you. fraservalleybirding.com/PDF/FVB%20Boundary.pdf


Where about did you hike Ed? From the sounds of it, it does look like you are in the Fraser Valley region.

You managed to get some great birds and the views must have been amazing! It's so beautiful up there and an area that does not get birded a lot I bet.

[Gord]

Ed, excellent birds! Im with Chris, must be a beautiful place and for certain, very little birding attention is put there.

I looked at some other map resources and Coquihalla Mountain is the boundary! The height of land is the boundary between the FVRD and Okanagan-Similkameen. Where did you approach from? The ridge from the west? If so, likely you were in our checklist area for most of if not all of your hike. Good bunch of birds. Wow, we're finishing off September with a bang in terms of species!!!

[ed]

So if Mt. Coquihalla is on the boundary then the Mtn Bluebirds and the Golden Eagles were seen on both sides of the divide. I climbed "Spiral Peak and Coquihalla Mtn(E Peak) which both appear to be within or on the boudary. This area was accessed from the Coquihalla Lakes area.