The Penticton Christmas Bird Count was held on Dec. 19.
The temperature during the day ranged from -3 to 1, with winds up to 12 kilometres an hour. There was moderate snow most of the day, with a depth of up to 15 centimetres.
There were 47 observers in 21 to 25 parties for a total of 141 party-hours.
The following are the numbers of birds recorded:
Cackling Goose 2
Canada Goose 2,067
Trumpeter Swan 2
Wood Duck 12
Gadwall 8
American Wigeon 136
Mallard 1,609
Canvasback 5
Redhead 408
Ring-necked Duck 3
Greater Scaup 457
Lesser Scaup 3
Bufflehead 78
Common Goldeneye 47
Barrow’s Goldeneye 1
Hooded Merganser 5
Common Merganser 66
Ruddy Duck 1
Ring-necked Pheasant 15
Ruffed Grouse 3
California Quail 3,004
Common Loon 11
Pied-billed Grebe 8
Horned Grebe 50
Red-necked Grebe 12
Eared Grebe 2
Western Grebe 1
Great Blue Heron 13
Bald Eagle: adult 22
Bald Eagle: immature 3
Northern Harrier 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 13
Cooper’s Hawk 13
Northern Goshawk 4
Accipiter sp. 1
Red-tailed Hawk 48
Red-tailed (Harlan’s) Hawk 1
Golden Eagle: immature 5
American Kestrel 14
Merlin 13
American Coot 755
Mew Gull 5
Ring-billed Gull 123
California Gull 61
Herring Gull 203
Thayer’s Gull 1
Glaucous-winged Gull 80
GW X Western Gull 3
gull, sp. 58
Rock Pigeon 625
Eurasian Collared-Dove 3
Mourning Dove 23
Great Horned Owl 9
Northern Pygmy-Owl 4
Short-eared Owl 1
Northern Saw-whet Owl 1
Belted Kingfisher 5
Downy Woodpecker 17
Hairy Woodpecker 6
Am. Three-toed Woodpecker 3
Red-shafted Flicker 555
Intergrade Flicker 2
Pileated Woodpecker 4
Northern Shrike 10
Gray Jay 4
Steller’s Jay 129
Clark’s Nutcracker 74
Black-billed Magpie 530
American Crow 174
Common Raven 336
Black-capped Chickadee 248
Mountain Chickadee 170
Boreal Chickadee 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 97
White-breasted Nuthatch 6
Pygmy Nuthatch 149
Brown Creeper 7
Canyon Wren 1
Pacific Wren 1
American Dipper 4
Golden-crowned Kinglet 21
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 8
Western Bluebird 125
Townsend’s Solitaire 14
Hermit Thrush 1
American Robin 278
Varied Thrush 12
European Starling 4,630
Bohemian Waxwing 1,985
Cedar Waxwing 147
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Spotted Towhee 6
Song Sparrow 252
Swamp Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 2
White-crowned Sparrow 131
Dark-eyed (Ore) Junco 1,257
Dark-eyed (Sc Junco 13
Red-winged Blackbird 303
Pine Grosbeak 5
Purple Finch 1
Cassin’s Finch 9
House Finch 1,941
Red Crossbill 77
Common Redpoll 20
Pine Siskin 6
American Goldfinch 622
Evening Grosbeak 1
House Sparrow 995
INDIVIDUALS 25,518
SPECIES 102