Monday 9 May 2011

9th May 2011 Pt. Pelee

Dry with a northeasterly breeze. We walked West Beach south to the Point and then north through Post Woods before again trying the Sanctuary late afternoon. We made an evening visit to Hillman's Marsh.

Pacific Diver 1
Great Northern Diver 1
Double-crested Cormorant 100
Great Blue Heron 15
Great Egret 3
Mute Swan 2
Canada Goose 10
Mallard 6
Gadwall 2
Shoveler 10
Blue-winged Teal 2
Green-winged Teal 5
Scaup 100
Long-tailed Duck 1
Surf Scoter 6
Black Scoter 8
White-winged Scoter 1
Goldeneye 1
Red-breasted Merganser 50
Turkey Vulture 6
Cooper's Hawk 1
Pheasant 2
Wild Turkey 1
Grey Plover 6
Semipalmated Plover 10
Killdeer 6
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 10
Turnstone 2
Dunlin 100
Least Sandpiper 4
Wilson's Phalarope 3
Bonaparte's Gull 200
Ring-billed Gull 50
American Herring Gull 15
Caspian Tern 2
Forster's Tern 60
Mourning Dove 20
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Eastern Wood Pewee 1
Eastern Kingbird 10
Empidonax Flycatcher sp. 1
Warbling Vireo 2
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 12
Purple Martin 10
Rough-winged Swallow 6
Sand Martin 20
Tree Swallow 250
Cliff Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 20
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
House Wren 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 10
Blue-grey Gnatcatcher 1
American Robin 20
Veery 2
Hermit Thrush 3
Grey Catbird 7
Brown Thrasher 1
Starling 20
Cardinal 6
American Buff-bellied Pipit 2
Cedar Waxwing 7
Nashville Warbler 4
Yellow Warbler 15
Magnolia Warbler 5
Black-throated Blue Warbler 2
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Myrtle Warbler 3
Palm Warbler 2
Black-and-white Warbler 3
American Redstart 2
Common Yellowthroat 1
Wilson's Warbler 1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2
Chipping Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 4
White-crowned Sparrow 4
Brown-headed Cowbird 10
Red-winged Blackbird 200
Common Grackle 100
Baltimore Oriole 4
Orchard Oriole 5
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow 10






























American White-winged Scoter off West Beach






Surf and Black Scoters off West Beach


















































Black Scoters off West Beach










Long-tailed Duck and Scaup off West Beach






Scaup off West Beach






Goldeneye off West Beach




Male Orchard Oriole along West Beach




Eastern Wood Pewee along West Beach




Eastern Kingbird along West Beach








































Hermit Thrush along West Beach


Bonaparte's, American Herring and Ring-billed Gulls at the Point


























Male Black-throated Blue Warbler at the Point














Female Black-and-white Warbler at the Point
















Male Black-throated Blue Warbler at the Point




Grey Catbird at Northwest Beach





Nashville Warbler at Northwest Beach






Male Black-throated Blue Warbler at Northwest Beach




American Robin






Magnolia Warbler at the Sanctuary








Wilson's Warbler at the Sanctuary








































Lesser Yellowlegs at Hillman's Marsh








Tree Swallow at Hillman's Marsh






American Buff-bellied Pipit at Hillman's Marsh


Semipalmated Plover at Hillman's Marsh




Caspian Tern at Hillman's Marsh

Drake Blue-winged Teal at Hillman's Marsh