K Jun 7

Leader: Fred Jazvac

Participants: Fred Jazvac, Judy Duncan, Margaret Anderton, Ralph and Mary Anne Knowles, Norma Nanni, Stewart Nutt, Norah Toth, Liz Addison, Bruce Edmunds, Doug and BJ Martin, Jim Punnett, Joy Albrecht, Bill Klein, Marilyn Ohler, Lionel Gould, Becky Grieveson, Bob and Anne Marie Taylor, Joan Godden, Judy and Kiah Jasper, Connie Miller. Jana Gayle (25)

HI Everyone,

The sky was blue, the sun was shining, the temperatures were warm, and the winds were light. What a great day for birding! And it was! Twenty-five of us saw ninety-three species of birds today. The goal was to find the birds that had not made the BBC year list, and we only had this spring to locate them. We used the experience we learned from the festival, and with additional local knowledge, we went out searching.

Lunch was at the Wiarton Harbour

Thank you, to Stew for taking us to a new nest just started by the Piping Plovers,toJoan for lettings know where the Grasshopper Sparrow was, and to Margaret for keeping the list for us.

Places visited:

1) En Route

2) MacGregor Park Area - just south of the park entrance entering through the blue gate, Bruce County Road 33 and the tower road and tower.

3) Concession 10 just north and east of the Independent head rail trail heading south

4) Elsinore Road

5) Allanford Road

6) Malcolm Bluffs

7) Sky Lake

8) Sauble Beach Waterfront

Birds seen:

• Canada Goose (CANG)

• Mallard (MALL)

• Common Merganser (COME)

• Red-breasted Merganser (RBME)

• Wild Turkey (WITU)

• Pied-billed Grebe (PBGR) -1

• Double-crested Cormorant (DCCO)

• Great Blue Heron (GBHE) -6

• Great Egret (GREG) - 1, 7

• Green Heron (GRHE) -1

• Turkey Vulture (TUVU)

• Osprey (OSPR) -2

• Broad-winged Hawk (BWHA) -1

• Red-tailed Hawk (RTHA) -1

• Virginia Rail (VIRA) - 1- (tower)

• Sandhill Crane (SACR) - 4

• Piping Plover (PIPL) -8

• Killdeer (KILL)

• Ring-billed Gull (RBGU)

• Herring Gull (HEGU)

• Caspian Tern (CATE) -7

• Black Tern (BLTE) -7

• Rock Pigeon (ROPI)

• Mourning Dove (MODO)

• Black-billed Cuckoo (BBCU) - 3

• Chimney Swift (CHSW)

• Ruby-throated Hummingbird (RTHU)

• Hairy Woodpecker (HAWO) - 6

• Northern Flicker (NOFL) -6

• Eastern Wood-Pewee (EAWP)

• Alder Flycatcher ALFL) -2

• Least Flycatcher (LEFL) -2

• Eastern Phoebe (EAPH)

• Great Crested Flycatcher (GCFL) - 2,6

• Eastern Kingbird (EAKI)

• Warbling Vireo (WAVI)

• Red-eyed Vireo (REVI)

• Blue Jay (BLJA)

• American Crow (AMCR)

• Common Raven (CORA) - 4

• Purple Martin (PUMA) - Port Elgin

• Tree Swallow (TRES)

• Cliff Swallow ( CLSW)

• Barn Swallow (BARS)

• Black-capped Chickadee (BCCH)

• Red-breasted Nuthatch (RBNU)

• White-breasted Nuthatch (WBNU)

• House Wren (HOWR)

• Winter Wren (WIWR)

• Marsh Wren (MAWR)

• Eastern Bluebird (EABL)

• Veery (VEER)

• Wood Thrush (WOTH)

• American Robin (AMRO)

• Gray Catbird (GRCA)

• Brown Thrasher (BRTH)

• European Starling (EUST)

• Cedar Waxwing (CEDW)

• Ovenbird (OVEN)

• Golden-winged Warbler (GWWA)

• Blue-winged Warbler (BWWA)

• Black-and-white Warbler (BAWW)

• Mourning Warbler (MOWA)

• Common Yellowthroat (COYE)

• American Redstart (AMRE)

• Yellow Warbler (YWAR)

. Hooded Warbler (HOWA) - 6

• Chestnut-sided Warbler (CSWA)

• Black-throated Blue (BTBW)

• Pine Warbler (PIWA)

• Black-throated Green (BTNW)

• Chipping Sparrow (CHSP)

• Clay-coloured Sparrow (CCSP) - 5

• Field Sparrow (FISP) -2

• Savannah Sparrow (SAVS)

• Grasshopper Sparrow (GRSP) - 3

• Song Sparrow (SOSP)

• Swamp Sparrow (SWSP) - 2

• White-throated Sparrow (WTSP)

• Scarlet Tanager (SCTA) -6

• Northern Cardinal (NOCA)

• Rose-breasted Grosbeak (RBGR) -6

• Indigo Bunting (INBU)

• Bobolink (BOBO)

• Red-winged Blackbird (RWBL)

• Eastern Meadowlark (EAME)

• Brewer's Blackbird (BRBL) - 1

• Common Grackle (COGR)

• Brown-headed Cowbird (BHCO)

• Baltimore Oriole (BAOR)

• House Finch (HOFI)

• Purple Finch (PUFI)

• American Goldfinch (AMGO)

• House Sparrow (HOSP)

93 species. Any errors or omissions, please contact sender