Sunday, 1 May 2011

1st May 2011 Pt. Pelee

Walked Tilden's Wood Trail, then Shuster's Trail and then checked western car parks north along the Point. Dawn and early morning with heavy rain then clearing. SW3-4.

Double-crested Cormorant c.300
Great Blue Heron 4
Great Egret 4
Canada Goose 10
Wood Duck 3W
Mallard 2
Scaup 55
Lesser Scaup 2
White-winged Scoter 6
Red-breasted Merganser 10
Ruddy Duck 10
Bald Eagle 2
Merlin 1
Wild Turkey 6
Killdeer 4
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Bonaparte's Gull 40W
Ring-billed Gull 200
American Herring Gull 5
Caspian Tern 1
Forster's Tern 6
Mourning Dove 25
Great Horned Owl 3
Chimney Swift 5
Red-headed Woodpecker 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 3
Warbling Vireo 2
Blue-headed Vireo 5
Blue Jay 1
Purple Martin 12
Rough-winged Swallow 20
Sand Martin 5
Tree Swallow 60
Barn Swallow 25
Black-capped Chickadee 5
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Brown Creeper 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 10
Blue-grey Gnatcatcher 6
American Robin c.200
Hermit Thrush 2
Grey Catbird 8
Brown Thrasher 2
Starling 100
Cardinal 2
Northern Parula 1
Nashville Warbler 5
Yelllow Warbler 6
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
Magnolia Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 2 males
Myrtle Warbler 5
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Palm Warbler 1
Bay-breasted Warbler 1
Blackpoll Warbler 3
Black-and-white Warbler 3
Louisiana Waterthrush 1
Yellow-breasted Chat 2
Scarlet Tanager 3
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2
Eastern Towhee 1
Chipping Sparrow 20
Savannah Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 12
White-crowned Sparrow 7
Song Sparrow 4
Swamp Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 4
Red-winged Blackbird c.500
Rusty Blackbird 2
Common Grackle c.150
Baltimore Oriole 2
House Finch 1






Louisiana Waterthrush along Shuster's Trail


Hermit Thrush in Tilden's Wood


Nashville Warbler in Tilden's Wood




Male Blackpoll Warbler at the Visitor's Centre






Male Yellow Warbler at the Visitor's Centre








Myrtle Warbler








Warbling Vireo






tan-striped White-throated Sparrow










White-crowned Sparrow at De Laurier's Car Park






Chipping Sparrow at De Laurier's Car Park


Great Horned Owl near the Entrance Kiosk
































Forster's Terns off Erie Side Cottage






Purple Martins at Erie Side Cottage




Red-breasted Mergansers at Erie Side Cottage