Sun Peaks Summer Birding and Wildflowers August 2, 2023

A great hike from the top of the chair lift to Tod Lake via Saddleback trail and back by West Bowl and West Ridge trails. Lots of flowers and birds!

Columbian Ground Squirrel

Sun Peaks Mountain, Sun Peaks Mountain CA-BC (50.9095,-119.9283), Thompson-Nicola, British Columbia, CA
Aug 2, 2023 10:14 AM – 5:50 PM
Protocol: Traveling
8.0 kilometer(s)
35 species

Dusky Grouse  3
Turkey Vulture  1
Northern Goshawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  3
Northern Flicker (Red-shafted)  1
American Kestrel  1
Merlin  1
Canada Jay  5


Common Raven  1
Mountain Chickadee  1
Chestnut-backed Chickadee  2
Boreal Chickadee  2
Cliff Swallow  6
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  8
Golden-crowned Kinglet  3


Red-breasted Nuthatch  4
Swainson’s Thrush  1
Hermit Thrush  2
American Robin  5
Cedar Waxwing  6
Pine Grosbeak  2
Pine Siskin  4
Lapland Longspur  1
Chipping Sparrow  4
Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon)  16


White-crowned Sparrow  14


Savannah Sparrow  4


Lincoln’s Sparrow  1
Spotted Towhee  1
Orange-crowned Warbler  3


Nashville Warbler  1


Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon’s)  50
Townsend’s Warbler  1
Wilson’s Warbler  1
Western Tanager  2

Milbert’s Totoiseshell
Some kind of Fritillary
Arrow-leaved Groundsel
Common Red Paintbrush
Fringed Grass of Parnassia
Lance-leaved Stonecrop
Orange Agoseris
Prairie Agoseris
Red Columbine
Showy Aster
Showy Daisy
Sitka Valerian
Small-flowered Penstemon
Subalpine Daisy
Sulphur Buckwheat
Some type of Arnica
Three-leaf Foamflower
Tiger Lily
True Forget-me-not
White Bog Orchid
A type of Lousewort

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