Trip Leader: Alfred Raab
Participants: Fred Jazvac, Bonnie Patterson-Collins, Judy Duncan, Margaret Anderton, James Turland, Ralph and Mary-Anne Knowles, Werner Sukstorf, Carole Lupton, Norma Nanni, Stewart Nutt, Alfred Raab, Arlene Richards, Norah Toth, Alice Kain, Judith Buxton, Kim Toews, Liz Addison, Bruce Edmunds, Helen Penfold, Doug and BJ Martin, Jim Punnett, John and Kay Thompson, Bill Klein, Beryl Lougher, Judy Wyatt, Melitta Smole,Tony and Carol Kemp, Lionel Gould, Becky Grieveson, Bob Taylor, Anne-Marie Benedict. Linda Fraser-Walden. Beryl Pearse, John Dickson, Diane Fletcher
Thank you, Alfred Raab for leading us on a great hike today. Tough hike to lead as there were 39 of us enjoying the day. Alfred focussed on some great birds that he knew the whereabouts of, and we looked for them, found most of them, and in the end we tallied up 72 species of birds. Some of the birds we were happy to hear or see were two Sandhill Crane babies, Broad-winged Hawk, Mourning Warbler, the rare for our area, Hooded Warbler and an Upland Sandpiper. We were entertained by Brewer’s Blackbird on the way to Isaac Lake and finished the day with a Sedge Wren in full view that everyone saw for a wonderful finale. What a cooperative bird he was and what a great day!
The weather was sunny, light winds, and a high of 20 C.
Areas visited:
1) En Route (to Mallory Beach and Isaac Lake)
2) Lower Malcolm Bluffs
3) Upper Malcolm Bluffs
4) Savanna Below Baywatch Park
5) Crooked Toe Road, etc.
6) Isaac Lake
• Canada Goose (CANG)
• Mallard (MALL)
• Common Merganser (COME)
• Wild Turkey (WITU)
• Common Loon (COLO)
• Great Blue Heron (GBHE)
• Great Egret (GREG)
• Turkey Vulture (TUVU)
• Osprey (OSPR)
• Bald Eagle (BAEA)
• Broad-winged Hawk (BRHA)
• Red-tailed Hawk (RTHA)
• Sandhill Crane (SACR)
• Wison's Snipe (WISN)
.Upland Sandpiper
• Ring-billed Gull (RBGU)
• Herring Gull (HEGU)
• Hairy Woodpecker (HAWO)
• Northern Flicker (NOFL)
. Mourning Dove
• Pileated Woodpecker (PIWO)
• Eastern Wood-Pewee (EAWP)
. Eastern Phoebe (EAPH)
• Alder Flycatcher ALFL)
• Least Flycatcher (LEFL)
• Great Crested Flycatcher (GCFL)
• Eastern Kingbird (EAKI)
• Yellow-throated Vireo (YTVI)
• Warbling Vireo (WAVI)
• Red-eyed Vireo (REVI)
• Blue Jay (BLJA)
• American Crow (AMCR)
• Common Raven (CORA)
• Tree Swallow (TRES)
• Black-capped Chickadee (BCCH)
• Red-breasted Nuthatch (RBNU)
• Winter Wren (WIWR)
• Sedge Wren (SEWR)
• Eastern Bluebird (EABL)
• Veery (VEER)
• Swainson's Thrush (SWTH)
• American Robin (AMRO)
• Gray Catbird (GRCA)
• Brown Thrasher (BRTH)
• European Starling (EUST)
• Cedar Waxwing (CEDW)
• Ovenbird (OVEN)
• Golden-winged Warbler (GWWA)
• Black-and-white Warbler (BAWW)
• Mourning Warbler (MOWA)
.Hooded Warbler (HOWA)
• Common Yellowthroat (COYE)
• American Redstart (AMRE)
• Yellow Warbler (YWAR)
• Chestnut-sided Warbler (CSWA)
• Black-throated Green (BTNW)
• Canada Warbler (CAWA)
• Chipping Sparrow (CHSP)
• Field Sparrow (FISP)
• Savannah Sparrow (SAVS)
• Grasshopper Sparrow (GRSP)
• Song Sparrow (SOSP)
• White-throated Sparrow (WTSP)
• Scarlet Tanager (SCTA)
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak (RBGR)
• Indigo Bunting (INBU)
• Bobolink (BOBO)
• Red-winged Blackbird (RWBL)
• Eastern Meadowlark (EAME)
• Brewer's Blackbird (BRBL)
• Common Grackle (COGR)
• Baltimore Oriole (BAOR)