T Nov 1

Leader: Lynne Richardson

Participants: Fred Jazvac, Judy Duncan, James Turland, Ralph and Mary Anne Knowles, Carole Lupton, Norma Nanni, Alfred Raab, Arlene Richards, Norah Toth, Judith Buxton, Liz Addison, Bruce Edmunds, Bill Klein, Christine McMaster, Marilyn Ohler, Marilyn Beecroft, Becky Grieveson, Bob and Anne Marie Taylor, Joan Godden, Lynne Richardson, Marshall Byle, Kiah Jasper, Joan Godden, Migs Baker, Dennis Knight, Shirley Harrison, Lynne Richardson. (29)

Thank you Lynne for a well planned and organized day. Everything went like clockwork. Getting the town to open the lagoons for us took some effort. And you had some pull with the previously absent waterbirds who decided to show up today. Twenty one of them came to make our day. Thank you, Shirley for making sure that Lynne didn’t get lost, and helping her out as needed. You two make a great team.

Two birds that seemed to surprise us were the Orange-crowned Warbler and the Wilson’s Snipe.

Thank you to Mary-Ann Knowles for keeping the list of us. Neat tidy and easy to read.

The temperature today varied between 3 to 6 C. The winds were light the sky was overcast with a bit of sun to tease us.

Places visited:

1-enroute

2-Bridges Thornbury

3-Thornbury Lagoons

4-Clendenam Dam

5-Collingwood Harbour East

6-Collingwood Harbour West

7-Princeton Shores

8-North Winds Beach

• Canada Goose (CANG)

• Mute Swan (MUSW)

• Gadwall (GADW)

• American Black Duck (ABDU)

• Mallard (MALL)

• Redhead (REDH)

• Ring-necked Duck (RNDU)

• Greater Scaup (GRSC)

• Lesser Scaup (LESC)

• Surf Scoter (SUSC)

• White-winged Scoter (WWSC)

• Long-tailed Duck (LTDU)

• Bufflehead (BUFF)

• Common Goldeneye (COGO)

• Hooded Merganser (HOME)

• Common Merganser (COME)

• Red-breasted Merganser (RBME)

• Ruddy Duck (RUDU)

• Pied-billed Grebe (PBGR)

• Horned Grebe (HOGR)

• Red-necked Grebe (RNGR)

• Double-crested Cormorant (DCCO)

• Great Blue Heron (GBHE)

• Great Egret (GREG)

• Bald Eagle (BAEA)

• Northern Harrier (NOHA)

• Red-tailed Hawk (RTHA)

• American Coot (AMCO)

• Sandhill Crane (SACR)

• Greater Yellowlegs (GRYE)

• Wison's Snipe (WISN)

• Ring-billed Gull (RBGU)

• Herring Gull (HEGU)

• Rock Pigeon (ROPI)

• Mourning Dove (MODO)

• Belted Kingfisher (BEKI)

• Merlin (MERL)

• Blue Jay (BLJA)

• American Crow (AMCR)

• Common Raven (CORA)

• Golden-crowned Kinglet (GCKI)

• American Robin (AMRO)

• European Starling (EUST)

• Cedar Waxwing (CEDW)

• Orange-crowned Warbler (OCWA)

• American Tree Sparrow (ATSP)

• Song Sparrow (SOSP)

• Common Grackle (COGR)

• American Goldfinch (AMGO)

• House Sparrow (HOSP)

50 species of birds seen