Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) - Salmon Arm, BC
Today I was super lucky to see an ABA Code 4 Fieldfare! The bird was first found and stunningly photographed by Roger Beardmore and his wife Nan and their friends Peter and Sharon Lawless. It is the second record for the province of BC.
It took just shy of 5 hours to get there and it was a lovely drive.One of my fave twitches as it is a bird I have always wanted to see in BC. It was a lifer for me! ABA bird # 696 and BC Bird # 425. Many Birders from the Pacific Coast will twitch this bird and especially BC listers because the last record was a one day single observer sighting from 2003 by my friend Larry Cowan.
I was really struck by the elegant beauty of this bird.
Good luck to all who twitch this bird go ASAP because all the berries on the bushes are being heavily eaten by a large flock of Bohemian Waxwings and some Robins he's loosely hanging with.
Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) - Salmon Arm, BC
Today I was super lucky to see an ABA Code 4 Fieldfare! The bird was first found and stunningly photographed by Roger Beardmore and his wife Nan and their friends Peter and Sharon Lawless. It is the second record for the province of BC.
It took just shy of 5 hours to get there and it was a lovely drive.One of my fave twitches as it is a bird I have always wanted to see in BC. It was a lifer for me! ABA bird # 696 and BC Bird # 425. Many Birders from the Pacific Coast will twitch this bird and especially BC listers because the last record was a one day single observer sighting from 2003 by my friend Larry Cowan.
I was really struck by the elegant beauty of this bird.
Good luck to all who twitch this bird go ASAP because all the berries on the bushes are being heavily eaten by a large flock of Bohemian Waxwings and some Robins he's loosely hanging with.