Birding Trip Report: Vancouver & Whistler July 2016
Trip Review: Vancouver & Whistler July 2016 Overview: This report summarises the birds seen on a family holiday when I was younger to western British Columbia. We visited Whistler for 3 full days and then moved down to the suburbs of Vancouver for 7 days, and we did many day trips from here. Birds were not the focus, but we managed to do a bit of birding on a couple of days. The sites are listed below. The main content of this report is an annotated species list to give an idea of when and where each species was seen. This report does not intend to give a comprehensive overview of a birding trip to the region – birds were almost certainly missed, and sites could have been visited at more bird-friendly times – but rather a guide for a casual birder on the birds you could expect to see on a family holiday to the region. We only birded with binoculars, though our scope would have probably helped at the wetland sites, particularly Iona. We purchased a hummingbird...