I-April 17

Hi Everyone,

Thank you Bonnie and Wayne for once again inviting us over and providing this wonderful day for us. The work you had to do before and after this occasion is beyond the call of duty. We all had a good time, ate too much and enjoyed your leadership and birds that you found for us. We had an all day banquet mixed with an excellent collection of avian visitors.

Thank you also to Liz who looked after the list for us and prepared the results below and made this email much easier to send out.

And finally the last, thank you to all of you for the total surprise you gave me today. The incredible card prepared in a way that only Bonnie can do and the wonderful gift you gave me. That Canvasback will always bring a smile to my face every time I see it. To say I was surprised would be an understatement and in the process I got a little choked up with the presentation. Thank you, all of you.

The weather was blue skies with a little wind and temperatures varying between 2 to 8 Centigrade.

We saw 71 species. The food was great. the birds cooperated and the company was priceless.

Take care,

Fred

1. Bonnie's
2. En route
3. Brucedale conservation area
4. Beach at Brucedale
5. Little harbour at Brucedale
6. J/I Line
7. Old barn on the Bruce Saugeen Townline just east of MacGregor
8. County road 33
9. Baie du Dore
10. 12th of Bruce
11. Ducks Unlimited pond
12. Canada Goose (1)
13. Hooded Merganser (1) (5)
14. American Robin (1)
15. Ring-necked Duck (1)
16. Mallard Duck(1)
17. Red-bellied Woodpecker (1)
18. Dark-eyed Junco (1)
19. White-throated Sparrow (1)
20. Brown-headed Cowbird (1)
21. American Goldfinch (1)
22. Mourning Dove (1)
23. Blue Jay (1)
24. Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1) (10)
25. Yellow-rumped Warbler (1) (4)
26. Brown Thrasher (1)
27. Yellow-shafted Flicker (1)
28. Purple Finch (1)
29. Common Grackle (1)
30. Hairy Woodpecker (1)
31. Pine Siskin (1)
32. Red-breasted Nuthatch (1)
33. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (1)
34. Turkey Vulture (1)
35. Red-winged Blackbird (1)
36. Song Sparrow (1) (4) (6)
37. Ring-billed Gull (1)
38. Winter Wren (1) (11)
39. Belted Kingfisher (1) (5) (11)
40. American Woodcock (1)
41. Downy Woodpecker (1)
42. White-crowned Sparrow (1)
43. Brown Creeper (1)
44. Chipping Sparrow (1)
45. Sharp-shinned Hawk (2)
46. American Crow (2)
47. White-breasted Nuthatch (3)
48. Black-capped Chickadee (3)
49. House Finch (3)
50. Palm Warbler (3)
51. European Starling (3)
52. Double-breasted Cormorant (4)
53. Mute Swan (4)
54. Bald Eagle (4)
55. Herring Gull (4)
56. Red-breasted merganser (4)
57. Eastern Phoebe (4) (6) (10)
58. Northern Harrier (4) (6) (1) (9)
59. Great Egret (4) (11)
60. Northern Cardinal (4)
61. Great Black-backed Gull (4)
62. Savannah Sparrow (6)
63. Eastern Bluebird (6)
64. Tree Swallow (6)
65. Killdeer (6)
66. Eastern Meadowlark (6)
67. Vesper Sparrow (6)
68. Common Raven (7)
69. Barn Swallow (7)
70. Red-tailed Hawk (8) (11)
71. Rusty Blackbird (1) (10)
72. Pintail Duck (9)
73. Greater Yellowlegs (9)
74. Blue-winged Teal (9)
75. Buffelhead (9)
76. Ring-necked Duck (10)
77. Common Snipe (10)
78. Pied-billed Grebe (10) (11)
79. Wood Duck (10)
80. Green-winged teal (10)
81. Sand-hill crane(11)
82. Swamp sparrow (11