Post by kastern on Oct 3, 2006 12:52:14 GMT -8
What with one thing and another I don't seem to be getting anything accomplished - like downloading pictures - but thought I should report the hi lites from last weeks trip up in the Merrit - Logan Lake area.
Weather was spectacular the whole time. Went to Tunkwa Lake first where we spotted an AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER
- a life bird ;D. Didn't know what it was when we saw it, except guessed it was a plover of some kind but was easily identified when we got back to the trailer and downloaded the photos into the laptop (where they still are).
Spent one night at Monck Park just outside of Merrit and saw the usual Nuthatch and Nutcrackers but also sat and counted 63 AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN fly across the Nicola Lake. We had also seen 2 Pelican on Mamett Lake, they were there on the 23rd when we were headed to Logan Lake and still there on the 26th when we were headed back to Merritt.
At Kentucky/Allyene Provincial Park we canoed Allyene Lake and the only feathered creature on the whole entire lake was a PACIFIC LOON, another lifer. Again have pictures, but still in the other computer (not hooked up to the internet).
We also took a run through the Kane and Voight Valleys and canoed Boss Lake. This area is a hot bed of birding in the spring but obviously just about everything had left by the end of September. Saw a few Mallards, a couple of Coot and some Ring Neck Ducks. A few Song Sparrows in the bushes and some very freindly Gray Jays that helped us eat lunch and more Red Breasted Nuthatch in one place than I'd ever seen before, but that was pretty much it.
All in all we saw 71 identified species.
Kathy
Weather was spectacular the whole time. Went to Tunkwa Lake first where we spotted an AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER
- a life bird ;D. Didn't know what it was when we saw it, except guessed it was a plover of some kind but was easily identified when we got back to the trailer and downloaded the photos into the laptop (where they still are). Spent one night at Monck Park just outside of Merrit and saw the usual Nuthatch and Nutcrackers but also sat and counted 63 AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN fly across the Nicola Lake. We had also seen 2 Pelican on Mamett Lake, they were there on the 23rd when we were headed to Logan Lake and still there on the 26th when we were headed back to Merritt.
At Kentucky/Allyene Provincial Park we canoed Allyene Lake and the only feathered creature on the whole entire lake was a PACIFIC LOON, another lifer. Again have pictures, but still in the other computer (not hooked up to the internet).
We also took a run through the Kane and Voight Valleys and canoed Boss Lake. This area is a hot bed of birding in the spring but obviously just about everything had left by the end of September. Saw a few Mallards, a couple of Coot and some Ring Neck Ducks. A few Song Sparrows in the bushes and some very freindly Gray Jays that helped us eat lunch and more Red Breasted Nuthatch in one place than I'd ever seen before, but that was pretty much it.
All in all we saw 71 identified species.
Kathy
