British Columbia & Washington

May 14 - 23, 2011

Day 1

Mountain Bluebird

Arrive in Vancouver. Travel to Victoria via LRT, bus and
ferry. Night with Beth & Tomm.

Day 2

Victoria, Beacon Hill Park, Clover Point Park, Esquimalt Lagoon.

Day 3

Day with Beth & Tomm. Juan de Fuca Provincial Park. Saanichton Bulb Fields (Sky Lark).

Day 4

Ferry to Tsawwassen. Bus to the airport. Pick up Smart Car rental. Travel to Washington State. Snoqualmine Pass, Cle Elum River, Ellensburg. Night in Yakima.

Day 5

Wenas Creek Loop, Yakima Canyon, Umtanum Road,
Ellensburg Pass, Wenas Road.

Sage Thrasher

Day 6

Kittitas Valley, Mineral Springs CG, Swauk CG, Discovery Trail, Old Vantage Highway, Quilomene Wildlife Area. 

Day 7

Old Creek Road, Trout Lodge, Bethel Ridge Road, Rimrock Lake, White Pass, Mt. Rainier.

Day 8

Offshore pelagic birding with Westport Seabirds. Night in Elma.

Day 9

Capital State Forest. Seattle Aquarium. Travel to Vancouver.

Day 10
Depart Vancouver.



Ground Squirrel
(Spremophilus sp.)

Red Fox (aberrant colouration)

Bird List

1. Canada Goose
2. Mute Swan
3. Wood Duck
4. Mallard
5. Ring-necked Duck
6. Greater Scaup
7. Harlequin Duck
8. Surf Scoter
9. White-winged Scoter
10. Bufflehead
11. Common Merganser
12. California Quail
13. Pacific Loon
14. Common Loon
15. Western Grebe
16. Laysan Albatross
17. Black-footed Albatross
18. Northern Fulmar
19. Pink-footed Shearwater
20. Sooty Shearwater
21. Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel
22. Leach's Storm-Petrel
23. Brandt's Cormorant
24. Double-crested Cormorant
25. Pelagic Cormorant
26. American White Pelican
27. Brown Pelican
28. Great Blue Heron
29. Turkey Vulture
30. Osprey
31. Bald Eagle
32. Northern Harrier
33. Cooper's Hawk
34. Swainson's Hawk
35. Red-tailed Hawk
36. American Kestrel
37. Prairie Falcon
38. Killdeer
39. Black Oystercatcher
40. Whimbrel
41. Red-necked Phalarope
42. Red Phalarope
43. Sabine's Gull
44. Mew Gull
45. Western Gull
46. Glaucous-winged Gull
47. Caspian Tern
48. Common Tern
49. Arctic Tern
50. Pomarine Jaeger
51. Parasitic Jaeger
52. Long-tailed Jaeger
53. Common Murre
54. Pigeon Guillemot
55. Ancient Murrelet
56. Cassin's Auklet
57. Rhinoceros Auklet
58. Tufted Puffin
59. Rock Pigeon
60. Mourning Dove
61. Great Horned Owl
62. Common Poorwill
63. Vaux's Swift
64. Rufous Hummingbird
65. Calliope Hummingbird
66. Belted Kingfisher
67. Lewis's Woodpecker
68. Williamson's Sapsucker
69. Red-naped Sapsucker
70. Northern Flicker
71. Western Wood-Pewee
72. Hammond's Flycatcher
73. Gray Flycatcher
74. Say's Phoebe
75. Western Kingbird
76. Loggerhead Shrike
77. Warbling Vireo
78. Gray Jay
79. Steller's Jay
80. Black-billed Magpie
81. Northwestern Crow
82. Common Raven
83. Sky Lark
84. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
85. Violet-green Swallow
86. Bank Swallow
87. Barn Swallow
88. Cliff Swallow
89. Mountain Chickadee
90. Chestnut-backed Chickadee
91. Bushtit
92. Red-breasted Nuthatch
93. White-breasted Nuthatch
94. Rock Wren
95. Bewick's Wren
96. House Wren
97. Pacific Wren
98. American Dipper
99. Golden-crowned Kinglet
100. Western Bluebird
101. Mountain Bluebird
102. Townsend's Solitaire
103. Swainson's Thrush
104. Hermit Thrush
105. American Robin
106. Varied Thrush
107. Sage Thrasher
108. European Starling
109. Orange-crowned Warbler
110. Nashville Warbler
111. MacGillivray's Warbler
112. Yellow Warbler
113. Yellow-rumped Warbler
114. Townsend's Warbler
115. Wilson's Warbler
116. Spotted Towhee
117. Chipping Sparrow
118. Brewer's Sparrow
119. Sage Sparrow
120. Savannah Sparrow
121. Song Sparrow
122. White-crowned Sparrow
123. Dark-eyed Junco
124. Western Tanager
125. Black-headed Grosbeak
126. Lazuli Bunting
127. Red-winged Blackbird
128. Western Meadowlark
129. Brewer's Blackbird
130. Brown-headed Cowbird
131. Bullock's Oriole
132. Purple Finch
133. Cassin's Finch
134. House Finch
135. Pine Siskin
136. American Goldfinch
137. Evening Grosbeak
138. House Sparrow