Went to the North Okanogan and did some bird watching at my cabinm on Okanogan Lake. Was nice to see some new birds for the year. Here's at least a partial list and also ones on the road trip to and from Victoria:
Common Loon
Pied billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Red necked Grebe
Western Grebe
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Cinnamon Teal
Ring necked Duck
Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Sharp shinned Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Red tailed Hawk
Golden Eagle
Prairie Falcon
Ring necked Pheasant
California quail
American Coot
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Ring billed gull
Herring Gull
Pigeon guillemot
Mourning Dove
Barn Owl
Great horned owl
Vaux's Swift
Black chinned Hummingbird
Calliope Hummingbird(yeah!!) one of the one's I wanted badly along with the black chinned
Rufous Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Wooodpecker
Northern Flicker(huge amounts this year rarely seen this much)
Pileated Woodpecker
Western Kingbird(alot less than normal)
Eastern Kingbird( only a third of what I usually see)
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Violet green Swallow
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven(lots this year)
Black capped Chickadee
Mountain Chickadee
Red breasted Nuthatch
Western Bluebird (another one I wanted to see for the year)
Swainson's Thrush
Gray Catbird
Cedar Waxwing
European Starling
Orange crowned Warbler
nashville Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Western Tanager
Lazuli Bunting
American Robin
Spotted Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song sparrow
REd winged Blackbird(everywhere)
Western Meadowlark
Yellow headed Blackbird (was absent from our Willow tree for a few years so happy to see them back!)
Brewer's Blackbird(like grackles in Mexico everywhere and noisy lol!)
Brown headed Cowbird
Bullock's Oriole
House Finch
American Goldfinch (everywhere but cute
House Sparrow
Not as good as last year but still decent
Also caught these fish
Perch
Whitefish (Squaw)
and some tiny fish I didn't know
Reptiles and Amphibians
Gopher Snake(same one that freaked my mom out a couple years back)
western Skink
All in all a pretty good trip for only doing about 1 and a half hours every other day
Very good going, Canadagurl. We are very fortunate to live in this party of the world with respect to wildlife and bird viewing. Keep it up, and tell us more of your future sightings.
Good luck.
Robert / Seattle