PHOTO QUIZ
Some birders give up birding temporarily during mid summer. For all of you, whether you're currently active in the field or not, here are some diversions to help you pass these warm days. These are a few of my photographs, mostly from southwestern B.C. with the occasional other location tossed in. Send your ID answers to chris.siddle@gmail.com and I'll let you (and only you) know how you did. Yes, you may use your field guides to formulate your answers:
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| Species 1 and 2- s. Ont. - May 2013 |
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| Species 3 - Vernon - July, 2013 |
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| Species 4 - Southern Ont. - May, 2013 |
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| Species 5 - Vernon - Jan. 2013 |
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| Species 6 - S. Ariz. - Feb. 2012 |
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| Species 7 - California |
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| Species 8 - Vernon - July, 2010 |
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| Species 9 - Vernon - June, 2013 |
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| Species 10 - Vernon - June, 2013 |
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| Species 11 - Vernon - June, 2013 |
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| Species 12 - Vernon - July 2013 |
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| Species 13 - Vernon - July, 2013 |
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| Species 14 - Vernon- July, 2013 |
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| Species 15 - Kelowna - July, 2013 |
BEST SHOREBIRD LOCATIONS IN B.C.?
I was thinking about shorebirds today, a timely topic for those of us who have visited the Willow Beach area just north of Osoyoos lately. Here are some of the best shorebird sites in B.C. Next to each site are page numbers from RUSSELL and DICK CANNINGS' excellent new book, BIRDFINDING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA (Greystone Press, 2013).
1. Iona Island (Vancouver) pages 124-127. Note: parts of the Iona Island Sewage Lagoons are off limits due to construction this summer and early fall. See Jude Grass's recent note on BCintbird for more details.
2. Reifel Island and Refuge (Ladner) pages 130-132.
3. Fort St. John North and South Sewage Lagoons (Fort St. John) pages 408-411.
4. Salmon Arm Bay (Salmon Arm) pages 282-286.
5. Shelley Sludge Lagoons (Prince George) page 340.
6. Boundary Bay and Beach Grove (Delta and Tsawwassen) pages 139-143 and pages 134-135.
7. Mission Point/Chapman Creek (Sunshine Coast) pages 180-181.
8. Robert Lake (Kelowna) page 248.
9. Sandy Island (off Denman Island) page 71
10. Sidney Spit Marine Park and Sidney Lagoon (Sidney) page 29-30.
Comments and suggested additions may be sent to chris.siddle@gmail.com
OKANAGAN BIRD BANDING GEARING UP
The banding station is set to open on Thursday the 1st for our 13th season and right now we are really hurting for volunteers for the daily census and the station. Census is an hour and a half route of easy walking and persons should be familiar with most of the local species. Station volunteers need no special skills other than being able to print legibly. Even top birders will learn a lot as we usually have the time to show how the species are aged and sexed in the hand and these skills can often be used on birds in the field. Please consider volunteering either for census or the station. The scientific data gathered by VLBO is important and the place can't run without the help of volunteers. You can contact Dick Cannings about census(dick cannings@shaw.ca; 250-493-3393) or myself for helping out with the station(douglasbrown01@yahoo.
Doug Brown
bander-in-charge
Vaseux Lake Bird Observatory
BRITISH COLUMBIA NEST RECORD SCHEME - 2012 NESTING SEASON
The Biodiversity Centre for Wildlife Studies (of which I am a director) has just released the 58th annual report of the British Columbia Nest Record Scheme, in a handsome softcover. For information about obtaining a copy, joining the scheme and/or the Biodiversity Centre, go to www.wildlifebc.org
Featured throughout the report are the nest records and photographs of VICKY and LLOYD ATKINS of Vernon. No blog of North Okanagan birds and birders would be complete without reference to this tireless husband and wife team who patrol many of the most significant birding routes in the area, recording natural phenomena with notebook and camera. Of particular interest to those of us interested in Swainson's Hawks is an outstanding and one of a kind photographic "family portrait" of two adults and their three juveniles on the Commonage from 2012.
If you have comments about this blog, please email Chris Siddle at chris.siddle@gmail.com
Happy birding, folks.
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