The Trip:
HOT summer day (in the 90s) ... went out mid-morning to Vancouver Lake to look for the Sabine's Gull which had been spotted there this morning ... no luck on the Sabine's but had numerous Bonaparte's Gulls ... also went to drive to the end of Lower River Road to check on the Osprey nest only to find the gate closed to the end of the road ...
Vancouver Lake:
For more birds seen or photographed at Vancouver Lake ... click here.
Vancouver Lake Lowlands:
For more birds seen or photographed at the Vancouver Lake Lowlands (Lower River Road, Vancouver Lake, Shillapoo Wildlife Area, Rufener's Pond, LaFrambois Road) ... click here.
Birds seen, heard, or photographed ... (in alphabetical order):
- American Crow ... (VL)
- American Goldfinch ... (VLL)
- American Robin ... (VLL)
- Black-capped Chickadee ... (VL)
- Black-headed Grosbeak ... (VL, heard)
- Bonaparte's Gull ... (VL)
- Brewer's Blackbird ... (VL)
- Brown-headed Cowbird ... (VLL)
- Bushtit ... (VL)
- Cliff Swallow ... (VL)
- Eurasian Collared-Dove ... (VL, heard)
- European Starling ... (VLL)
- Gull (species) ... (VL, juvenile, larger than Bonaparte's)
- Great Blue Heron ... (VL)
- House Sparrow ... (VLL)
- Northern Flicker ... (VL)
- Osprey ... (VL, VLL)
- Red-tailed Hawk ... (VLL)
- Red-winged Blackbird ... (VL, VLL)
- Song Sparrow ... (VLL)
- Spotted Towhee ... (VLL)
- Steller's Jay ... (VL)
- Tree Swallow ... (VL)
- Western Scrub-Jay ... (VLL)
- Yellow Warbler ... (VL, heard)
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