D-June 8
Trip Leader: Alfred Raab
Participants: Fred Jazvac, Bonnie Patterson-Collins, Judy Duncan, John and Brenda Cummings, Dave and Jean Schaus, James Turland, Ralph and Mary Anne Knowles, Stewart Nutt, Alfred Raab, John and Kay Thompson, Dave Fidler. Liz Addison and Bruce Edmunds, John Dickson, Heather McGregor-Brown, Greg Brown, Bill Klein, Doug and BJ Martin
Thank you to Alfred and Brigitte for hosting a wonderful day for us.Alfred for leading us to places we don't get to see enough, providing us with a good number of quality birds to look and listen to and working hard to dig out some birds like the Grasshopper Sparrow we saw at Crane Lake today. And to Brigitte, a special woman whose warm hospitality added to the luncheon she provided. The 23 visitors she ed did not phase her one bit. Thank you from all of us for a great day. The weather today was mixed with temperatures varying from 16 to 27 C depending which pocket of air you were in. The wind played havoc in open places like the Sparrow Fields reducing songs and hiding birds where normally many good birds are found. In the sheltered areas the wind was less of a factor. 80 Species of birds were seen. Not Bad,Eh.
Places visited:
1) En route
2) Crane Lake
3) Sparrow Fields
4) Bartley Road
5) Dyer's Bay Road
6) Alfred's on Little Pike Bay
7) Skye Lake
8) Isaac Lake
9) Rankin River by Boat Lake
10 North Sauble Beach
Many of the birds were seen in the many grassland habitats we visited
and not marked individually.
> € Common Loon - 7
> € Pied-billed Grebe - 7
> € Double-crested Cormorant - 6,7
> € Great Blue Heron - 1
> € Black-crowned Night-Heron - 8
> € Canada Goose
> € Mallard
> € Blue-winged Teal - 5, 8
> € Red-breasted Merganser - 6
> € Turkey Vulture - 5
> € Red-tailed Hawk - 2
> € Bald Eagle - 7
> € Osprey - 9
> € Merlin - 1
> € American Kestrel - 5
> € Sora - 5
> € Sandhill Crane 2,5
> € Spotted Sandpiper -6
> € Upland Sandpiper - 2
> . Wilson's Snipe - 5,8
> . Piping Plover - 10
> € Ring-billed Gull
> € Herring Gull
> € Caspian Tern -7
> € Common Tern - 6
> € Black Tern -7
> € Mourning Dove
> € Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2
> € Belted Kingfisher - 1
> € Hairy Woodpecker - 6
> € Northern Flicker - 2.8
> € Willow Flycatcher- 3,4
> € Eastern Phoebe - 2
> . Eastern Wood Peewee - 1
> € Great Crested Flycatcher
> € Eastern Kingbird
> € Red-eyed Vireo
> € Warbling Vireo - 8
> € Blue Jay - 6
> € Common Raven - 1
> € American Crow
> € N Rough-winged Swallow - 2
> € Tree Swallow
> € Barn Swallow
> € Black-capped Chickadee
> € Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1
> € House Wren - 6
> € Winter Wren - 6
> € Eastern Bluebird - 4
> € American Robin
> € Veery - 6
> € Gray Catbird
> € Brown Thrasher -1,
> € European Starling
> € Cedar Waxwing - 4
> € Yellow Warbler 2,3,4, 6,
> € Chestnut-sided Warbler 2
> € Yellow-rumped Warbler -6
> € Black-throated Green - 6
> € American Redstart - 6
> € Ovenbird
> € Common Yellowthroat
> € Northern Cardinal 1
> € Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 6
> € Indigo Bunting - 3
> € Eastern Towhee - 6
> € Field Sparrow - 3
> € Clay-coloured Sparrow - 4
> € Chipping Sparrow
> € Savannah Sparrow
> € Grasshopper Sparrow - 2
> € Song Sparrow -
> € Swamp Sparrow - 8
> € Eastern Meadowlark
> € Bobolink
> € Brown-headed Cowbird -1
> € Red-winged Blackbird
> € Brewer's Blackbird - 1 Ferndale Pike Bay corner
> € Common Grackle
> € American Goldfinch
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> 80 Species seen
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