Spent most of the afternoon with Roger from Salmon Arm and Isaac up at the raptor viewing area.  A sow Black Bear and 3 cubs spent the entire time a short ways from us sleeping in a tree.  It was a wild experience seeing lots of migrating raptors and looking over at the bears for the entire afternoon.  Will post photos of the bears in the wildlife photos section of this web site.

Dufferin Raptor Migration Viewpoint (Kamloops), Thompson-Nicola, British Columbia, CA

Sep 21, 2019 11:35 AM – 5:25 PM

Protocol: Stationary

Comments:    4 bears (3 Cubs and mom) sleeping in tree.  All brown except one black cub.

21 species

Turkey Vulture  5

Northern Harrier  9

Sharp-shinned Hawk (Northern)  5

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Northern Goshawk  2

Bald Eagle  3

Swainson’s Hawk  1

Red-tailed Hawk  45

Northern Flicker (Red-shafted)  1

American Kestrel  4    1-2 migrants

Merlin  1

Steller’s Jay  1

Black-billed Magpie  3

Common Raven  60

Mountain Bluebird  9

American Robin  3

American Pipit  11

Red Crossbill  2

Pine Siskin  3

Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon)  3

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon’s)  5