Nov. 3 2021

Leader: Lynne Richardson

Participants: Lynne Richardson, Nancy and Rik Seppala, Judy Duncan, Susan Glass, Norah Toth, Margaret Anderton, Linda Neilson- Jones, Fred Jazvac, Marilyn Ohler, Kiah Jasper, Alfred Raab, Barb Palmer, Norma Nanni, Bill Klein (15)

Thank you, Lynne for a great day of birding. Your annual trip is our best waterfowl trip of the year. We saw 21 species of birds who make a living from the surrounding waters of the Thornbury to Collingwood area covered today. We finished with a final visit to a beach on Georgian Bay where the feature was the only exposed Ordovician rock in the world. A period of about 450 million years ago which featured the arrival of plants and organisms on this planet. The dark flat rock of the beach showed many exposed signs of these ancient fossils. What a great finish to a great birding day. Thank you, again, Lynne.

At the start, the weather was a bit dicey showing flashes of winter in the drive to Thornbury to meet Lynne. The roads were accessible, with melting snow and with one area that needed more salt. As the day progressed the temperatures rose to plus 5 and the weather cooperated to make a fine birding travelling day for late fall.

Thank you, Kiah for keeping the list for us.

BBC - Thornbury Collingwood Outing – November 3, 2021

Areas visited:

Thornbury:

1. Thornbury Mill Pond

2. Thornbury Sewage Lagoon

3. Clendenan Dam Conservation Area

Collingwood:

1. Collingwood Arboretum

2. Collingwood Harbour – grain elevators

3. Collingwood Harbour – Bear Estate Marina

4. Delphi Point Municipal Park

Birds

1. Canada Goose

2. Mute Swan

3. Trumpeter Swan

4. Mallard

5. American Black Duck

6. Green-winged Teal

7. Redhead

8. Ring-necked Duck

9. Greater Scaup

10. Lesser Scaup

11. Long-tailed Duck

12. Bufflehead

13. Common Goldeneye

14. Hooded Merganser

15. Common Merganser

16. Red-breasted Merganser

17. Pied-billed Grebe

18. Horned Grebe

19. Rock Pigeon

20. American Coot

21. Ring-billed Gull

22. Herring Gull

23. Common Loon

24. Double-crested Cormorant

25. Great Blue Heron

26. Red-bellied Woodpecker

27. Hairy Woodpecker

28. Blue Jay

29. American Crow

30. Common Raven

31. Black-capped Chickadee

32. Golden-crowned Kinglet

33. Red-breasted Nuthatch

34. White-breasted Nuthatch

35. European Starling

36. American Robin

37. House Sparrow

38. House Finch

39. American Goldfinch

40. Snow Bunting

41. American Tree Sparrow

42. Dark-eyed Junco

43. White-throated Sparrow

44. Song Sparrow