Post by kastern on May 22, 2006 18:55:23 GMT -8
Just got back this afternoon after spending the last 10 days at Tunkwa Lake Provincial Park, just north of Logan Lake. Ran the gamut of weather from fresh snow in the bush the day we arrived to temperatures near 30 to wind and rain. Unfortunately what with unfavorable weather when my husband was there with the canoe and favorable canoeing weather when I was left there on my own with no canoe, we only managed to get out on the lake once, and then only made it part way around the shoreline. We did get to Desmond Lake yesterday which is on the Surrey-Sussex Lake Road. Here is a list of the birds seen:
Yellow Rump Warblers - they were everywhere when we arrived
MacGillvery Warbler
Chipping Sparrows and Savannah Sparrows - all over
Song Sparrow
Dark Eyed Junco
Red Breasted Nuthatch
Evening Grosbeaks
Mountain Chickadee
Robin
Mountain Bluebird
Vireo - I think a Warbling - I do have a picture
Western Tanagers
Western Kingbird
Bald Eagle - including a pair on a nest
Sharp Shin Hawk
Merlin
Osprey
Red Tail Hawk
American Kestral
American Crows
Raven
Starlings
Canada Geese - two pairs with goslings
American Widgeon
Northern Shoveler
Scaup (not sure whether greater or lesser - probably both)
Canvasbacks
Ruddy Ducks - lots
Blue Wing Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Barrow's Goldeneye
Ring Necked Duck
Mallards
Common Loons (including 2 nests)
Red Neck Grebe
Eared Grebe
Marsh Wrens - lots
American Coots
Rufous Hummingbirds
Calliope Hummingbirds
Black Terns
Bonaparte Gull (I think - I'll post a picture and await comment)
Tree Swallows
Barn Swallows
Cliff Swallows
Killdeer
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Belted Kingfisher
Spotted Sandpipers
Great Blue Heron
Sandhill Crane - a pair flew over and then rested for the night
Sora (heard - never saw)
American Bittern (hear - never seen)
Wilson's Phalarope
Yellow Headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Red Wing Blackbird
Brown Headed Cowbird
Kathy
Bonaparte or Franklin?
Loon on Desmond Lake
These Phalarope were in a puddle right beside the road
This Bald Eagle was after a Coot - but only came up with this talon full of reeds.
This is the 4th year that we know of that this particular Red Neck Grebe has been at Tunkwa. As you can see it is not an Albino but definitely not normal colored. The past two years it has been mated with a normal colored Red Neck Grebe. The first year we wondered if it would be fertile and had to leave before the eggs hatched. Last year we were there when the eggs had hatched and the bird definitely was fertile as they had two young. This year it was again paired with a normal colored Grebe but had not yet built a nest.
Yellow Rump Warblers - they were everywhere when we arrived
MacGillvery Warbler
Chipping Sparrows and Savannah Sparrows - all over
Song Sparrow
Dark Eyed Junco
Red Breasted Nuthatch
Evening Grosbeaks
Mountain Chickadee
Robin
Mountain Bluebird
Vireo - I think a Warbling - I do have a picture
Western Tanagers
Western Kingbird
Bald Eagle - including a pair on a nest
Sharp Shin Hawk
Merlin
Osprey
Red Tail Hawk
American Kestral
American Crows
Raven
Starlings
Canada Geese - two pairs with goslings
American Widgeon
Northern Shoveler
Scaup (not sure whether greater or lesser - probably both)
Canvasbacks
Ruddy Ducks - lots
Blue Wing Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Barrow's Goldeneye
Ring Necked Duck
Mallards
Common Loons (including 2 nests)
Red Neck Grebe
Eared Grebe
Marsh Wrens - lots
American Coots
Rufous Hummingbirds
Calliope Hummingbirds
Black Terns
Bonaparte Gull (I think - I'll post a picture and await comment)
Tree Swallows
Barn Swallows
Cliff Swallows
Killdeer
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Belted Kingfisher
Spotted Sandpipers
Great Blue Heron
Sandhill Crane - a pair flew over and then rested for the night
Sora (heard - never saw)
American Bittern (hear - never seen)
Wilson's Phalarope
Yellow Headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Red Wing Blackbird
Brown Headed Cowbird
Kathy
Bonaparte or Franklin?
Loon on Desmond Lake
These Phalarope were in a puddle right beside the road
This Bald Eagle was after a Coot - but only came up with this talon full of reeds.
This is the 4th year that we know of that this particular Red Neck Grebe has been at Tunkwa. As you can see it is not an Albino but definitely not normal colored. The past two years it has been mated with a normal colored Red Neck Grebe. The first year we wondered if it would be fertile and had to leave before the eggs hatched. Last year we were there when the eggs had hatched and the bird definitely was fertile as they had two young. This year it was again paired with a normal colored Grebe but had not yet built a nest.
