19th May 2011 Pt. Pelee

It was calm, overcast and misty at dawn that cleared to be sunny and warm by midday. We walked West Beach to halfway and then Post Woods and East Beach to the Point. We then walked Tilden's Wood and Shuster's Trail. We visited Hillman's Marsh in the evening.

Double-crested Cormorant 200
Great Blue Heron 15
Great Egret 5
Mute Swan 3
Canada Goose 30
Wood Duck 3
Mallard 10
Gadwall 6
Scaup 40
Red-breasted Merganser 50
Turkey Vulture 6
Pheasant 2
Sandhill Crane 3
Grey Plover 100
American Golden Plover 7
Killdeer 8
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Turnstone 1
Dunlin 300
Semipalmated Sandpiper 1
Least Sandpiper 4
Short-billed Dowitcher 25
Red-necked Phalarope 1
Bonaparte's Gull 10
Ring-billed Gull 500
American Herring Gull 20
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Caspian Tern 3
Mourning Dove 30
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 8
Red-headed Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Eastern Wood Pewee 3
Empidonax sp. 1
Eastern Kingbird 8
Red-eyed Vireo 2
Philadelphia Vireo 1
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 6
Purple Martin 10
Rough-winged Swallow 2
Sand Martin 2
Tree Swallow 50
Swallow 10
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Blue-grey Gnatcatcher 1
Eastern Bluebird 2
American Robin 50
Veery 3
Swainson's Thrush 12
Grey Catbird 12
Brown Thrasher 2
Starling 20
Cardinal 6
Cedar Waxwing 1
Northern Parula 1
Tennessee Warbler 2
Nashville Warbler 6
Yellow Warbler 30
Chestnbut-sided Warbler 5
Magnolia Warbler 8
Black-throated Blue Warbler 8
Blackburnian Warbler 4
Myrtle Warbler 1
Palm Warbler 3
Black-and-white Warbler 2
American Redstart 12
Ovenbird 1
Mourning Warbler 3
Common Yellowthroat 12
Wilson's Warbler 2
Canada Warbler 4
Scarlet Tanager 1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 3
Indigo Bunting 3
Field Sparrow 1
Chipping Sparrow 4
White-throated Sparrow 2
White-crowned Sparrow 8
Lincoln's Sparrow 5
Brown-headed Cowbird 10
Red-winged Blackbird 200
Common Grackle 100
Baltimore Oriole 15
Orchard Oriole 2
American Goldfinch 6
House Sparrow 10

Male Blackburnian Warbler at the Point

Catbird at the Point

Tennessee Warbler at the Point

Passenger Pigeon at the Visitor's Centre - sadly 100 years too late to see this species!

Black-throated Blue Warbler in Tilden's Wood

Male Scarlet Tanager at Tilden's Wood

Male Northern Parula in Tilden's Wood

Female American Redstart in Tilden's Wood

Purple Martins at Erie Side Cottage

Great Blue Heron at Erie Side Cottage

Canada Geese passing Erie Side Cottage

Sandhill Cranes over Hillman's Marsh