Thursday 12 May 2011

12th May 2011 Pt. Pelee

A thunderstorm before dawn which was calm and cloudy becoming bright, sunny and humid by midday. We walked West Beach to the Point, then White Pine, Sleepy Hollow, Dunes and Northwest Beach with a good fall of migrants evident everywhere we visited. We again visited Hillman's Marsh in the evening.

Red-throated Diver 1
Great Northern Diver 2
Double-crested Cormorant 200
Great Blue Heron 2
Mute Swan 3
Canada Goose 25
Wood Duck 2
Mallard 5
Gadwall 40
Shoveler 4
Scaup 50
Lesser Scaup 2
Long-tailed Duck 1
Surf Scoter 8
Black Scoter 20
White-winged Scoter 7
Red-breasted Merganser 400
Turkey Vulture 10
Pheasant 1
Sandhill Crane 1
Grey Plover 100
Semipalmated Plover 2
Killdeer 4
Turnstone 2
Dunlin 80
Least Sandpiper 8
Short-billed Dowitcher 45
Wilson's Phalarope 4
Bonaparte's Gull 300
Ring-billed Gull 50
American Herring Gull 20
Great Black-backed Gull 5
Forster's Tern 6
American Black Tern 1
Mourning Dove 20
Great Horned Owl 1
Chimney Swift 10
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 10
Red-headed Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 3
Least Flycatcher 5
Empidonax Flycatcer sp. 5
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 6
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Warbling Vireo 2
Philadelphia Vireo 1
Blue-headed Vireo 2
Blue Jay 10
Purple Martin 10
Rough-winged Swallow 2
Sand Martin 6
Tree Swallow 300
Swallow 20
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2
Wren 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6
Blue-grey Gnatcher 2
American Robin 25
Veery 2
Swainson's Thrush 4
Grey Catbird 20
Starling 20
Cardinal 5
American Buff-bellied Pipit 1
Northern Parula 6
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Tenessee Warbler 3
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Nashville Warbler 25
Yellow Warbler 40
Chestnut-sided Warbler 13
Magnolia Warbler 18
Cape May Warbler 2
Black-throated Blue Warbler 7
Blackburnian Warbler 2
Myrtle Warbler 3
Black-throated Green Warbler 3
Palm Warbler 5
Bay-breasted Warbler 1
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 6
American Redstart 12
Ovenbird 4
Kentucky Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 5
Wilson's Warbler 4
Canada Warbler 2
Scarlet Tanager 1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 10
Indigo Bunting 2
Eastern Towhee 3
Clay-coloured Sparrow 2
Chipping Sparrow 6
Savannah Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 12
White-crowned Sparrow 80
Lincoln's Sparrow 3
Brown-headed Cowbird 10
Red-winged Blackbird 250
Common Grackle 100
Baltimore Oriole 30
Orchard Oriole 12
House Sparrow 10


Hermit Thrush along West Beach























Eastern Kingbird along West Beach















Swainson's Thrush at the Point















Grey Catbird at the Point









Swainson's Thrush at the Point









Red-headed Woodpecker at the Point









White-crowned Sparrow at the Point







First-summer Bonaparte's Gulls at the Point





First-winter American Herring Gull at the Point







Lincoln's Sparrow at the Point



Male Ruby-throated Hummingbird at the Point







Female Red-winged Blackbird at the Point







Male Baltimore Oriole at Sleepy Hollow









Male Orchard Oriole at Sleepy Hollow



Male Magnolia Warbler at Sleepy Hollow



Female American Redstart at Sleepy Hollow













Ovenbird at Sleepy Hollow
























Northern Parula at Sleepy Hollow



Philadelphia Vireo at Sleepy Hollow













Tennessee Warbler at Sleepy Hollow



















































Northern Parula at Sleepy Hollow











White-crowned Sparrow at Sleepy Hollow





American Painted Lady at Sleepy Hollow





Female Black-throated Blue Warbler at Sleepy Hollow

































































Male Cape May Warbler at Northwest Beach































Black-throated Green Warbler at Northwest Beach





Palm Warbler at Northwest Beach









Clay-coloured Sparrow at Northwest Beach





























Chimney Swifts over Wheatley