Participants: Fred, Judy and Jim, John and Brenda, Margaret, Werner, Norah, Judy W, Cindy, Marlene, Lionel, Bob and Anne Marie, Tony and Carole, Rob and Donna, Lynne and Shirley.
Hi Everyone,
We had a good turn out for the OFO conference weekend, had some good social times, shared some meals together and saw some spectacular birds. We birdied the Leamington area from Friday to Sunday.
The weather was extremely windy with up to 80 K winds, with rain at times. The poor weather brings in good birds and it brought in some birds that we as a group, in our area, had little hope of ever seeing - the Sabine’s Gull and Laughing Gull - and everyone saw them. I have to say, a flying Sabine’s Gull is a spectacular thing to see. Bob and Anne-Marie has shared a picture of the Laughing Gull in an earlier email. If anyone has photos of the Sabine’s Gull, we would be interested in seeing them as well.
Here is an incomplete list of the birds we saw. I am not interested in updating any birds left off. Too much effort on my part, going over lists. The birds missing, we probably have on our record for the year anyway. We saw 103 species of birds and probably more if the list was totally complete.
Take care,
Fred
***. SABINE’S GULL
***. LAUGHING GULL
• Cackling Goose (CAGO)
• Canada Goose (CANG)
• Mute Swan (MUSW)
• American Wigeon (AMWI)
• American Black Duck (ABDU)
• Mallard (MALL)
• Northern Shoveler (NOSH)
• Northern Pintail (NOPI)
• Canvasback (CANV)
• Redhead (REDH)
• Ring-necked Duck (RNDU)
• Lesser Scaup (LESC)
• Red-breasted Merganser (RBME)
• Ruddy Duck (RUDU)
• Pied-billed Grebe (PBGR)
• Horned Grebe (HOGR)
• Double-crested Cormorant (DCCO)
• Great Blue Heron (GBHE)
• Great Egret (GREG)
• Turkey Vulture (TUVU)
• Osprey (OSPR)
• Bald Eagle (BAEA)
• Northern Harrier (NOHA)
• Sharp-shinned Hawk (SSHA)
• Red-shouldered Hawk (RSHA)
• Broad-winged Hawk (BWHA)
• Red-tailed Hawk (RTHA)
• Common Gallinule (COGA)
• Killdeer (KILL)
• Greater Yellowlegs (GRYE)
• Lesser Yellowlegs (LEYE)
• Least Sandpiper (LESA)
• Pectoral Sandpiper (PESA)
• Semipalmated Sandpiper (SESA)
• Wison's Snipe (WISN)
• Red-necked Phalarope) (RNPH)
• Bonaparte's Gull (BOGU)
• Little Gull (LIGU)
• Ring-billed Gull (RBGU)
• Herring Gull (HEGU)
• Caspian Tern (CATE)
• Rock Pigeon (ROPI)
• Mourning Dove (MODO)
• Chimney Swift (CHSW)
• Belted Kingfisher (BEKI)
• Red-bellied Woodpecker (RBWO)
• Northern Flicker (NOFL)
• American Kestrel (AMKE)
• Merlin (MERL)
• Eastern Wood-Pewee (EAWP)
• Eastern Phoebe (EAPH)
• Blue-headed Vireo (BHVI)
• Philadelphia Vireo (PHVI)
• Red-eyed Vireo (REVI)
• Blue Jay (BLJA)
• American Crow (AMCR)
• Horned Lark (HOLA)
• Tree Swallow (TRES)
• Barn Swallow (BARS)
• Black-capped Chickadee (BCCH)
• Brown Creeper (BRCR)
• Winter Wren (WIWR)
• Golden-crowned Kinglet (GCKI)
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet (RCKI)
• American Robin (AMRO)
• Gray Catbird (GRCA)
• Brown Thrasher (BRTH)
• European Starling (EUST)
• American Pipit (AMPI)
• Cedar Waxwing (CEDW)
• Northern Waterthrush (NOWA)
• Tennessee Warbler (TEWA)
• Orange-crowned Warbler (OCWA)
• Nashville Warbler (NAWA)
• Common Yellowthroat (COYE)
• American Redstart (AMRE)
• Cape May Warbler (CMWA)
• Magnolia Warbler (MAWA)
• Bay-breasted Warbler (BBWA)
• Blackburnian Warbler (BLBW)
• Yellow Warbler (YWAR)
• Blackpoll Warbler (BLPW)
• Palm Warbler (PAWA)
• Pine Warbler (PIWA)
• Yellow-rumped Warbler (YRWA)
• Black-throated Green (BTNW)
• Wilson's Warbler (WIWA)
• Chipping Sparrow (CHSP)
• Field Sparrow (FISP)
• Savannah Sparrow (SAVS)
• Song Sparrow (SOSP)
• Swamp Sparrow (SWSP)
• White-throated Sparrow (WTSP)
• White-crowned Sparrow WCSP)
• Dark-eyed Junco (DEJU)
• Northern Cardinal (NOCA)
• Red-winged Blackbird (RWBL)
• Eastern Meadowlark (EAME)
• Rusty Blackbird (RUBL)
• Common Grackle (COGR)
• Orchard Oriole (OROR)
• American Goldfinch (AMGO)
• House Sparrow (HOSP)