Pre-Conference Extension Trip: Merritt/Logan Lake/Cache Creek, June 3-5, 2026

Registration is on-line only and is limited to 15 participants, first come first served. The form will be available online at 9am April 2 using the 2026 Member Password which will be emailed to all paid-up Members on April 1.

Cost for Extension Trip: $150.00 per person, not including meals and accommodation which are on your own. Cost includes a contribution to the BCFO Conservation & Education Fund. Participants must be members of BCFO ( join or renew HERE ) and must have already registered & paid for the AGM & Conference. (register and pay HERE)

Western Meadowlark photo by Krista Kaptein

Leader: Alan Burger: BCFO member, mostly retired research biologist and university prof. Experienced birder with considerable experience in leading birding trips.

Trip Overview: Day 1 (June 3)

  • Meet in Merritt 0800 (Participants will likely stay the previous night in Merritt)
  • Bring food & drinks for a picnic lunch.
  • Hamilton Hill old road (Clay-coloured Sparrow, grassland birds, Swainson’s Hawk)
  • Nicola Lake – check for possible Peregrine Falcon nest
  • Pennask Lake Road to Douglas Lake loop (parts are on a rough road) – Lewis’s Woodpecker, Clay-coloured Sparrow, diverse shorebirds, Vesper Sparrow, Swainson’s Hawk, possible Golden Eagle, possible Bullock’s Oriole
  • Night – Promontory Mt – look for Common Poorwill (possible Flammulated Owl & other owls)

Overnight in Merritt

Day 2 (June 4)

  • Early morning – Lindley Creek – Midday Valley loop. Likely Williamson’s Sapsucker, 3 spp nuthatches, warblers, 2 spp bluebirds
  • Late breakfast in Merritt
  • Bring food & drinks for a picnic lunch.
  • Merritt to Logan Lake via Mamit Lake – waterfowl
  • Logan Lake marsh – waterfowl (Ruddy Duck etc.)
  • Tunkwa Lake Prov Park for picnic lunch – waterfowl, 3 grebe spp, Wilson’s Phalarope and shorebirds
  • Tunkwa to Savona – Look for American Three-toed Woodpecker and Black-backed Woodpecker
  • Savona, Juniper Beach Park to Cache Creek – possible Golden Eagle

Overnight in Cache Creek

Day 3 (June 5)

  • Cache Creek – Ashcroft area
  • To Lillooet via Hwy 99 & Marble Canyon
  • Lunch will be at a restaurant.
  • Arrive Lillooet in afternoon

Feature birds very likely:

  • Swainson’s Hawk
  • Lewis’s Woodpecker
  • Wilson’s Phalarope
  • Clay-coloured Sparrow
  • Vesper Sparrow
  • Western Meadowlark
  • Horned Lark
  • Western & Mountain Bluebirds
  • Say’s Phoebe
  • White-breasted & Pygmy Nuthatch

Feature birds possible:

  • Williamson’s Sapsucker
  • Golden Eagle
  • Peregrine Falcon
  • Great Grey Owl
  • Sharp-tailed Grouse