Monthly Archives: June 2012

This past weekend (June 1 – 3) at our Annual General Meeting, sixty delegates enjoyed two days of early-morning birding, Saturday afternoon presentations, and an evening banquet with Alan Burger providing the keynote.

Hosted by the Vermillion Forks Naturalists, BCFO members delighted in the warm, small- town hospitality of Princeton. Our hosts, speakers, and field trip leaders created a memorable weekend for all, which of course was capped off by some great birding to locations typical of the dry-interior grasslands and forests.

Highlights for the weekend included Dusky Grouse, Williamson’s Sapsucker, Great Grey Owl, Northern Pygmy-Owl, five species of Empid,  and a great variety of waterbirds and songbirds.

Les Gyug led the pre-conference, two-day field trip to the Merritt area during which the group recorded 102 species including: Swainson’s Hawk, Red-naped and Williamson’s sapsuckers, Eared Grebe, and Clay-coloured Sparrow.

Full reports and species seen will be featured in an upcoming BC Birding.

Photo: Mark Habdas

A couple more of Mark’s AGM pictures are on the Images page.

The BCFO Members area of the web site is now online. Here is where you can find the latest issue of BC Birding along with the BCFO journal, British Columbia Birds, and the journal’s current In press articles. You will be asked to enter your current password in order to gain access but once you’ve done that, a cookie stored on your machine will allow access each time you return until the password is changed. This saves having to enter a password each time you want to look at a document.