E March 7

Little Gulls AT Baie du Dore

Trip Leader: Bruce and Liz

Participants: Fred , Bonnie, Judy, Margaret, Doug, Dorothy, James, Carole L, Norma, Liz and Bruce, Lionel, Norah, Jim , Mary, Simon

We had 15 people attend today's outing led by the Rookies of the Year - Bruce and Liz . Most of the hike was in the Kincardine area. At the end of the day, they were declared rookies of the year in a brief ceremony held at Baie D' Dor because of great job by the first time hike leaders. What a great day it was seeing 48 species including birds like the Red-throated Loon, a Red-headed Woodpecker, 69 Tundra Swans. and finishing with a flock of 6 Little Gulls. Wow! The excellent birds were seen because of the scouting of many good people including Liz and Simon Turland.

Thank you to Margaret for keeping the bird list.

Weather: In the morning we had mix cloud with the high reaching 15 C by the afternoon. In the afternoon, there were high winds approaching 60 to 70 kilometers.

Places we stopped at:

1 En Route

2 Cedar Path by the Kincardine Gold Course.

3 Kincardine Waterfront south of the harbour

4 Horton's Park Point

5 Tiny Tot Park

6 Kincardine Harbour

7 KIncardine Sewage Lagoons

8 Concession 12 south of KIncardine, at EM 1797

9 Ripley Sewage Lagoons

10 10th Concession

11 The Ark

12 Baie D D'or

• Red-throated Loon - 3

• Double-crested Cormorant -4

• Mute Swan -12

• Tundra Swan - 9 (63 in the 2nd lagoon and 6 in the 3rd one)

• Canada Goose

• Mallard

• American Black Duck - 7

• Northern Pintail - 3, 9

• Northern Shoveler - 9

• Blue-winged Teal - 12

• American Green-winged Teal - 7

• Redhead -7

• Ring-necked Duck -7

• Long-tailed Duck - 4

• Common Goldeneye 3, 4, 5,12

• Bufflehead

• Hooded Merganser 3,5

• Common Merganser 3,4,5,

• Red-tailed Hawk - 1

• Rough-legged Hawk -1

• Bald Eagle -2,12

• Killdeer -5

• Little Gull -12

• Bonaparte's Gull -12

• Ring-billed Gull

• Rock Pigeon

• Red-headed Woodpecker -7

• Red-bellied Woodpecker -6, 10

• Downy Woodpecker

• Northern Shrike 1, outside the Ark

• Blue Jay

• Common Raven - 2

• American Crow

• Horned Lark

• Black-capped Chickadee

• American Robin

• European Starling

• Cedar Waxwing -10

• Northern Cardinal - 6

• Dark-eyed Junco -10

• Brown-headed Cowbird -1

• Red-winged Blackbird

• Common Grackle

• Common Redpoll 2

• Pine Siskin 2,

• American Goldfinch - 10

• House Sparrow

48 species seen

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