Salmon Arm Bay Birding August 28, 2022

Isaac and I kayaked a large portion of the bay this afternoon. A beautiful day of sunshine with temperatures in the mid 20s and almost no wind.

Salmon Arm Bay (General), Columbia-Shuswap, British Columbia, CA

Aug 28, 2022 3:18 PM – 5:32 PM

Protocol: Traveling

2.5 kilometer(s)

Checklist Comments:    Kayaking

32 species

Canada Goose  50

Gadwall  8

American Wigeon  1

Mallard  100

Male in eclipse plumage

Northern Pintail  1

Green-winged Teal  10

Common Merganser  3

Western Grebe  65

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  1

Killdeer  40

Baird’s Sandpiper  1

Least Sandpiper  10

Wilson’s Snipe  1

Red-necked Phalarope  25

Spotted Sandpiper  5

Greater Yellowlegs  2

Lesser Yellowlegs  38

Bonaparte’s Gull  8

Ring-billed Gull  150

Herring Gull  2

American White Pelican  48

Great Blue Heron  7

Osprey  1

Black-capped Chickadee  2

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  2

Violet-green Swallow  10

Bank Swallow  4

Barn Swallow  7

Cedar Waxwing  4

Red-winged Blackbird  1

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Brewer’s Blackbird  50

Advertisement

Leave a Reply

Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s