Tuesday 3 May 2011

3rd May 2011 Pt. Pelee

Heavy rain that persisted to early afternoon and then drizzle but virtually calm. Sheltered at the Point 'Pizza Hut' shelter for a couple of hours and then walked the Point. Tried Tilden's Wood in the afternoon where 3 Hooded Warblers had arrived and saw 2 Ovenbirds.

Slavonian Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant 100
Great Blue Heron 15
Great Egret 1
Black-crowned Night Heron 1
Canada Goose 6
Mallard 1
Scaup 200
Bufflehead 5
Red-breasted Merganser 50
Turkey Vulture 4
Cooper's Hawk 1
Pheasant 2
Wild Turkey 4
Killdeer 1
Bonaparte's Gull 15
Ring-billed Gull 100
American Herring Gull 5
Common Tern 40
Forster's Tern 2
Mourning Dove 25
Great Horned Owl 2
Downy Flicker 1
Empidonax sp. 2
White-eyed Vireo 1
American Crow 2
Purple Martin 8
Rough-winged Swallow 150
Tree Swallow 10
Swallow 40
Black-capped Chickadee 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch 5
Brown Creeper 2
House Wren 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 15
Blue-grey Gnatcatcher 5
American Robin 30
Wood Thrush 2
Veery 2
Swainson's Thrush 2
Hermit Thrush 2
Grey Catbird 10
Northern Mockingbird 1
Starling 50
Cardinal 2
Nashville Warbler 10
Yellow Warbler 8
Cape May Warbler 1
Blackburnian Warbler 2
Myrtle Warbler 20
Palm Warbler 10
Black-and-white Warbler 3
Ovenbird 2
Northern Waterthrush 2
Louisiana Waterthrush 1
Common Yellowthroat 1
Hooded Warbler 3
Yellow-breasted Chat 1
Chipping Sparrow 6
White-throated Sparrow 5
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
Red-winged Blackbird 100
Common Grackle 100
Baltimore Oriole 8
Orchard Oriole 3
House Sparrow 10







Bonaparte's Gull off the Point







Black-and-white Warbler at the Point




Slate-coloured Junco at the Point











Nashville Warbler at the Point










Wood Thrush near the Point


Male Baltimore Oriole at the Point









Male Red-breasted Nuthatch at the Point
















Northern Mockingbird at the Point








Male Blackburnian Warbler at the Point


























Male Myrtle Warbler at the Point






















Yellow-breasted Chat along Shuster's Trail


Ruby-crowned Kinglet in Tilden's Wood


















Male Hooded Warbler in Tilden's Wood








Veery in Tilden's Wood














































Louisiana Waterthrush in Tilden's Wood


Brown Creeper in Tilden's Wood







Barn Swallow at Erie Side Cottage, Wheatley