Sept.1 2021

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/?