The rock outcrops in the Provincial Park were fine vantage points on which to sit and pass time watching the steadily unfolding view across Lake Okanagan, and ideal places....
....to wait patiently for the wildlife to come to us. These are cedar waxwings, part of a group of half a dozen which ignored us - as waxwings do - in their hunt for berries from the shrubs that surrounded us.
They must be the smartest of all birds. Sadly, I have only seen waxwings twice before, once in Scotland, where a lone waxwing visited us one Christmas day, and once in Edmonton, where a large group made themselves very conspicuous in the trees in the ravine below our son's house.
Swallowtails are the most spectacular of butterflies, and the Okanagan boasted at least two species. The yellow one is a western tiger and the black-and-white a pale swallowtail.
Nor did the dragonflies disappoint. This species was the most common and very difficult to photograph as individuals wouldn't sit still for more than a moment. It's an eight-spotted skimmer.
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