Iona and Reifel May 2,2009

[Bill]

We had an excellent day birding in the Vancouver area on May 2. I went with my Dad, my son and JohnV. The list grew to 68 species.

Here are a few pictures:



Cinnamon Teal at Reifel.



Long Billed Dowitchers at Reifel



Yellow Headed Blackbird by the sewage treatment ponds.



Savannah Sparrow

Here is the list for the day. It is in the order that we remebered to write them down . The bold are life birds for me ;D ;D:

Northern Harrier
Bald Eagle
House Sparrow
Rock Dove
Stellars Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Eurasian Collared Dove
Europian Starling
Amercian Robin
Canadian Goose
Red Tailed Hawk
Glacious Winged Gull
Barn Swallow
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Widgeon
American Goldfinch
Purple Finch
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Black-Capped Chickadee
Yellow Rumped Warbler
Orange Crowned Warbler
Downy Woodpecker
Rofous Humming Bird
Bush tit
House Finch
Cowbird
Brewers Blackbird
Red-Winged Blackbird
White Crowned Sparrow
Great Blue Heron
Green Winged Teal
Western Kingbird
Caspian Tern
Western Sandpiper
Dunlin
Least Sandpiper
Killdeer
Hooded Merganser
Yellow Headed Blackbird
Lesser Yellowlegs
Coot
Northern Pintail
Golden Crowned Sparrow
Wilson's Snipe
Western Medowlark
Northern Roughwinged swallow
Tree Swallow
Marsh Wren
Ring billed Gull
California Gull
Spotted Sandpiper
Mute Swan
Trumpeter Swan
Wood Duck
Bufflehead
Long-Billed Dowitcher
Greater Yellowlegs
American Bittern
Golden crowned Kinglet
Brown Creeper
Junco
Cinnamon Teal
Spotted Tohee

[butterfly]

Super report, we love those Dowitchers! What a list!!!!