A Penticton Western News reader, Mark Lawrence, caught a rare sighting in Trout Creek recently.

Lawrence was out for a run in the rain when he saw a group of American White Pelicans. He said he made a mad dash home to get his camera and return to get this photo.

Margaret Holm, who has worked as the outreach co-ordinator for Okanagan Similkameen Conservation Alliance for many years, said it is a rare but not necessarily unusual sight to see.

91裸聊视频淢any people when they think of pelicans think they are exotic things, and they definitely don91裸聊视频檛 think they will see them inland. But yet, the pelicans can be found at a remote lake in the Chilcotin and every year they migrate to the Okanagan,91裸聊视频� she said. 91裸聊视频淪ometimes you might see them on Skaha Lake too in a small group or clusters of 10 or so. You won91裸聊视频檛 believe your eyes and then they just disappear.91裸聊视频�

Holm said she has seen them on Osoyoos Lake as well.

91裸聊视频淎ccording to the book, by Richard Cannings and his brother, they usually arrive the second week of April and travel through the area until mid-May, so it appears they are right on track,91裸聊视频� said Holm.

She added they are also sometimes spotted in the northern prairies.

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