Heather Baines, retired physician and Pemberton’s regional coordinator of the BC Breeding Birds Atlas survey, recently took a remarkable picture near Carpenter Lake, just west of Lillooet, that our birding correspondent John Tschopp has shared.

It shows a colony of Cliff Swallows that lives up to its name. The birds built their nests against a cliff and not a freeway overpass, as they do in California. The white spot in some of the holes is the white on the forehead of a cliff swallow. ~ JT

Below Heather’s image is a photographer of a cliff swallow photographed by John several years ago in Pemberton.