A few hours of great birding with Isaac this morning.  Other wildlife photos are following the birds.  Camera was clicking.  Least Flycatcher is locally scarce and do not breed in that area every year.  We encountered two calling loudly from the same area and then a single a little ways more up the road.  It’s such a treat to be out in nature at this time of year.  Life is everywhere and the wild flowers in Lac du Bois are just beginning.  A couple of times this morning we commented that a person could spend the entire day just sitting in one place beside an Aspen stand and have a great day birding/wildlife watching.

Lac du Bois Road, Thompson-Nicola, British Columbia, CA

May 28, 2020 8:36 AM – 11:54 AM

Protocol: Traveling

18.0 kilometer(s)

73 species

Canada Goose  11

Blue-winged Teal  1

Cinnamon Teal  5

Northern Shoveler  1

Gadwall  3

American Wigeon  2

Mallard  2

Green-winged Teal  2

Ring-necked Duck  18

Lesser Scaup  30

Bufflehead  11

Barrow’s Goldeneye  5

Ruddy Duck  16

Chukar  1

Pied-billed Grebe  1

Red-necked Grebe  1

Calliope Hummingbird  3

American Coot  8

Killdeer  1

Spotted Sandpiper  1

Common Loon  1    Nest on McQueen

Turkey Vulture  3

Northern Harrier  2

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Swainson’s Hawk  2

Red-tailed Hawk  5

Red-naped Sapsucker  2

Hairy Woodpecker  1

Northern Flicker  2

American Kestrel  1

Western Wood-Pewee  6

Willow Flycatcher  1

Least Flycatcher  3

Hammond’s Flycatcher  2

Dusky Flycatcher  5

Cassin’s Vireo  2

Warbling Vireo  5

Common Raven  31

Mountain Chickadee  2

Tree Swallow  15

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1

Red-breasted Nuthatch  2

House Wren  2

Pacific Wren  1

Marsh Wren  8

European Starling  3

Mountain Bluebird  1

American Robin  8

House Sparrow  3

Evening Grosbeak  1

House Finch  3

Pine Siskin  2

American Goldfinch  2

Chipping Sparrow  16

Clay-colored Sparrow  21

Dark-eyed Junco  1

Vesper Sparrow  29

Savannah Sparrow  4

Song Sparrow  5

Lincoln’s Sparrow  2

Spotted Towhee  1

Western Meadowlark  14

Red-winged Blackbird  13

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Brewer’s Blackbird  13

Orange-crowned Warbler  2

MacGillivray’s Warbler  3

Common Yellowthroat  4

Yellow Warbler  4

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon’s)  4

Wilson’s Warbler  1

Western Tanager  1

Lazuli Bunting  1

Other wildlife encountered this morning:

Coyote – 1

Columbian Ground Squirrel – 8Yellow-bellied Marmot – 4

Yellow-pine Chipmunk – 1

Muskrat – 3

Western Painted Turtle – 9

Unidentified Butterfly: