G Apr 3

Leader: James Turland

Participants: Fred Jazvac, Bonnie Patterson-Collins, Judy Duncan, Margaret Anderton, James Turland, Norma Nanni, , Arlene Richards, Norah Toth, Judith Buxton, Doug Pedwell, Liz Addison, Bruce Edmunds, Doug and BJ Martin, Jim Punnett, Kerry Jarvis, Melitta Smole, Christine McMaster, Marilyn Ohler, Becky Grieveson, Bob and Anne Marie Taylor, Kiah Jasper, David Turner, Laurie Schell, Connie Plante, Simon Turland (26)

I would like to thank James for leading today’s hike. He, in his enthusiastic and knowledgeable way, led us to see 62 species of birds. I would also like to thank Becky for sharing her home with us for lunch. I don’t know who gets all the credit for the soup,hot-cross buns, lemon squares, and refreshments, I suspect both of the hosts played a part in it. The food was delicious and the soup filled the bill for the cool day of birding we experienced. Thank you!

The brisk winds kept us cool, but the birds, and social interaction kept our minds off the weather most of the time. We were caught between the closing of the waterfowl migration and the early beginnings of the spring migration. The bird of the day was the Carolina Wren and the 62 species we saw just seemed to keep on coming.

The temperatures ranged between 2 and 5 C, while the brisk winds in the open areas, reminded us that winter had left it’s influence on spring. The skies were cloudy in the a.m., while the sun prevailed in the afternoon.

Fred

Places visited:

1) En route

2) Mouth of Saugeen River

3) Horseshoe Bay and Mirimachi Bay

4) Independent Pond

5) Brucedale Conservation Area

6) Bonnie’s Place

7) Inverhuron Sewage Lagoon

8) Kincardine Sewage Lagoon

9) Lunch hosted by Becky and James

10) Blair’s Grove

11) Point Clark Area ‘

Birds seen:

• Canada Goose (CANG)

• Mute Swan (MUSW)

• Wood Duck (WODU)

• Gadwall (GADW)

• American Wigeon (AMWI)

• American Black Duck (ABDU)

• Mallard (MALL)

• Northern Pintail (NOPI)

• Canvasback (CANV)

• Redhead (REDH)

• Ring-necked Duck (RNDU)

• Lesser Scaup (LESC)

• Bufflehead (BUFF)

• Common Goldeneye (COGO)

• Hooded Merganser (HOME)

• Common Merganser (COME)

• Red-breasted Merganser (RBME)

• Wild Turkey (WITU)

• Pied-billed Grebe (PBGR)

• Double-crested Cormorant (DCCO)

• Turkey Vulture (TUVU)

• Bald Eagle (BAEA)

• Northern Harrier (NOHA)

• Cooper's Hawk (COHA)

• Red-tailed Hawk (RTHA)

• Ring-billed Gull (RBGU)

• Herring Gull (HEGU)

• Great Black-backed Gull (GBBG)

• Rock Pigeon (ROPI)

• Mourning Dove (MODO)

• Red-bellied Woodpecker (RBWO)

• Downy Woodpecker (DOWO)

• Hairy Woodpecker (HAWO)

• Northern Flicker (NOFL)

• American Kestrel (AMKE)

• Merlin (MERL)

• Eastern Phoebe (EAPH)

• Blue Jay (BLJA)

• American Crow (AMCR)

• Common Raven (CORA)

• Horned Lark (HOLA)

• Black-capped Chickadee (BCCH)

• Red-breasted Nuthatch (RBNU)

• White-breasted Nuthatch (WBNU)

• Brown Creeper (BRCR)

• Carolina Wren (CARW)

• Golden-crowned Kinglet (GCKI)

• American Robin (AMRO)

• European Starling (EUST)

• American Tree Sparrow (ATSP)

• Song Sparrow (SOSP)

• Dark-eyed Junco (DEJU)

• Northern Cardinal (NOCA)

• Red-winged Blackbird (RWBL)

• Eastern Meadowlark (EAME)

• Common Grackle (COGR)

• Brown-headed Cowbird (BHCO)

• House Finch (HOFI)

• Pine Siskin (PISI)

• American Goldfinch (AMGO)

• House Sparrow (HOSP)

61 species of birds seen

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