Present:
Liz Addison, Margaret Anderton, Judy Duncan, Bruce Edmunds, Shirley Harrison, Kiah Jasper, Fred Jazvac, Bill Klein, Doug Martin, BJ Martin, Sarah Smith, Jacob Smith, Anne Melady, Marilyn Ohler, Barb Palmer, Doug Pedwell, Connie Plante, Alfred Raab, Lynne Richardson, James Turland, Judy Wyatt, Warren and Miriam Steckle, Susan Weaver, (24 people) Some of you were new today, so if I made an error in your name, or left it out, please yell at me, and tell me so I can learn.
Places visited:
1) Horseshoe Bay
2) Miramichi Bay
3) Independent Pond
4) Marwanda Estates
5) Baie Du D’Or
6) Chalmer’s Pond.
Weather conditions: it was a a nice summer day, one of the nicest in the last three weeks. The wind only felt brisk at Baie Du D’Or.
It’s funny about life. On one hand we have expectations that don’t workout, but on the other hand we are offered a substitute that is very successful. That is how it happened today. The last little while the warblers were coming through in large numbers. Our expectation was to see them in all of their confusing, fall colours. They laughed. They took a day off and decided to thumb their noses at us.. So we moped about that loss for awhile, but ignoring their rejection of us, we had a rewarding day in a couple of ways We ended up seeing 61 species of birds, not bad for a fall outing, with one of the birds being a species I have been looking for the last few years. There it was, at the entrance of MacGregor at the tower trail, sitting on a dead limb in plain view - an Olive-sided Flycatcher. It didn’t end there. We had 9 species of shorebirds at Chalmer’s Pond. We have driven for hours to Mitchell’s West Perth Wetlands to get fewer shorebirds than that. It was a great birding day and great in seeing many of you again.
Thank you, Kiah for leading us today on a very successful outing to start the resurrection of the Bruce Birding Club. Your leadership was exceptional! See Kiah’s note at the bottom for information on the T shirt he was wearing,
Lunch was at Wanda and Marshall’s. Thank you both for sharing your Shangri-la with us.
Bird list
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Mallard
American Black Duck
Common Merganser
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
Sanderling
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Merlin
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-pewee
Eastern Phoebe
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Barn Swallow
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
European Starling
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
American Goldfinch
Chipping Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Cape May Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Northern Cardinal
(61 species)
From Kiah - Also here’s the link to the website that seeks the Bruce T-shirt I was wearing.
https://bonevulture-designs.creator-spring.com/?