Island 22 Sept 15, Monday

[tmanson]

Hi all: Murray Brown, and I, had a chance to tour around Island 22 today.
Viewing conditions were obviously ideal, although you certainly wonder, with all this great weather, how many migrants are passing right through our area. Terrible thing to hope for rain, but???
There were pockets of good bird numbers although diversification was not high. Mosquitoes are also definitely there in numbers.
We tried to relocate the Western Screech Owl from Saturday, but had no luck on that bird today.
A relatively complete sampling of birds observed, in no particular order:

Canada Goose
Great Blue Heron
Brown Creeper
Black capped Chickadee
Spotted Towhee
American Robin
Northern Flicker
Downy Woodpecker
Raven
Glaucous winged Gull
Turkey Vulture
Cedar Waxwing
Western Tananger
Yellow rumped Warbler
Townsend's Warlber
Dark eyed Junco
White crowned Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Alaskan Song Sparrow

Cheers, Thor

Thor Manson
Hope, B.C.

[Gord]

Darn mosquitoes. Last year they were done by the last week of August!!

At risk of raising ire, I too am not opposed to a little change in the weather to shake things up a little!

We could be setting ourselves up for trouble when we get a steady two weeks of rain starting Thursday... ;D