Isaac and I took a drive up Greenstone Mountain last night just before and during dusk. We tried to only focus on birds but the wildflowers at this time of the year (mid and low elevation) kept grabbing our attention. Wildflowers, mammals, and then birds below.

Greenstone Road, Thompson-Nicola, British Columbia, CA

Jun 7, 2022 4:28 PM – 9:28 PM

Protocol: Traveling

25.0 kilometer(s)

76 species

Canada Goose  20

Cinnamon Teal  2

Gadwall  2

Mallard  10

Green-winged Teal  1

Ring-necked Duck  12

Lesser Scaup  30

Bufflehead  8

Barrow’s Goldeneye  1

Ruddy Duck  8

Ruffed Grouse  3

Dusky Grouse  1

Pied-billed Grebe  2

Calliope Hummingbird  2

Virginia Rail  1

American Coot  5

Killdeer  1

Spotted Sandpiper  3

Common Loon  2

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Red-tailed Hawk  2

Great Horned Owl  1

Red-naped Sapsucker  1

American Three-toed Woodpecker  2

Pileated Woodpecker  1

Northern Flicker (Red-shafted)  3

American Kestrel  1

Olive-sided Flycatcher  1

Western Wood-Pewee  5

Willow Flycatcher  3

Hammond’s Flycatcher  1

Dusky Flycatcher  5

Eastern Kingbird  5

Cassin’s Vireo  3

Warbling Vireo  13

Canada Jay  2

Black-billed Magpie  1

Common Raven  2

Mountain Chickadee  1

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  2

Tree Swallow  3

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  3

Golden-crowned Kinglet  4

Red-breasted Nuthatch  1

House Wren  2

Marsh Wren  1

European Starling  10

Gray Catbird  1

Mountain Bluebird  1

Townsend’s Solitaire  2

Varied Thrush  2

Swainson’s Thrush  15

Hermit Thrush  10

American Robin  8

Cedar Waxwing  12

Evening Grosbeak  12

Pine Siskin  6

American Goldfinch  1

Chipping Sparrow  10

Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon)  7

Vesper Sparrow  6

Song Sparrow  3

Yellow-headed Blackbird  1

Western Meadowlark  6

Bullock’s Oriole  2

Red-winged Blackbird  4

Brewer’s Blackbird  15

Orange-crowned Warbler  4

Nashville Warbler  2

MacGillivray’s Warbler  4

Common Yellowthroat  2

Yellow Warbler  2

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon’s)  11

Townsend’s Warbler  6

Western Tanager  6

Lazuli Bunting  1