Saturday, 7 May 2011

7th May 2011 Pt. Pelee

Dry, sunny and almost calm. We spent the day walking Post Woods, the Point, Shuster's Trail and Tilden's Woods. We made another evening visit to Hillman's Marsh.

Great Northern Diver 1
Double-crested Cormorant 100
Great Blue Heron 5
Great Egret 3
Mute Swan 1
Canada Goose 50
Wood Duck 2
Mallard 4
Shoveler 3
Blue-winged Teal 4
Scaup 25
White-winged Scoter 6
Bufflehead 1
Red-breasted Merganser 1000
Ruddy Duck 1
Turkey Vulture 20
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Osprey 1
Pheasant 8
Wild Turkey h
Sandhill Crane 1
Grey Plover 1
Semipalmated Plover 3
Killdeer 6
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 20
Dunlin 100
Least Sandpiper 1
Short-billed Dowitcher 9
Wilson's Phalarope 1
Bonaparte's Gull 350
Ring-billed Gull 50
American Herring Gull 10
Little Gull 1
Common Tern 2
Forster's Tern 6
Mourning Dove 15
Great Horned Owl 3
Chimney Swift 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 1
Least Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 2
Warbling Vireo 1
White-eyed Vireo 2
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 100
American Crow 1
Purple Martin 6
Sand Martin 6
Tree Swallow 200
Barn Swallow 20
Black-capped Chickadee 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 5
Brown Creeper 1
House Wren 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 4
Blue-grey Gnatcatcher 10
American Robin 30
Veery 1
Hermit Thrush 1
Grey Catbird 2
Brown Thrasher 2
Starling 20
Cardinal 3
Cedar Waxwing 3
Tenessee Warbler 1
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Nashville Warbler 3
Yellow Warbler 12
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
Magnolia Warbler 1
Cape May Warbler 1
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Myrtle Warbler 6
Palm Warbler 2
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Louisiana Waterthrush 1
Common Yellowthroat 1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 3
Indigo Bunting 1
Chipping Sparrow 2
Savannah Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 6
White-crowned Sparrow 4
Song Sparrow 1
Swamp Sparrow 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 6
Red-winged Blackbird 200
Common Grackle 100
Baltimore Oriole 6
Orchard Oriole 2
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow 12




Short-billed Dowitchers at the Onion Fields






Male Orchard Oriole at the Point




Sharp-shinned Hawk at the Sparrow Field
















White-eyed Vireo in Post Woods


Red-breasted Nuthatch at the Point




Blue-grey Gnatcatcher at the Point


Male Baltimore Oriole at the Point


















Sandhill Crane over the Visitor's Center































Cape May Warbler near the Visitor's Center



American Comma along Shuster's Trail


Veery along Shuster's Trail








Yellow-bellied Sapsucker in Tilden's Wood












Palm Warbler at Hillman's Marsh




Little Gull at Hillman's Marsh






















Greater Yellowlegs at Hillman's Marsh


Female Green-winged Teal at Hillman's Marsh




Great Blue Heron at Hillman's Marsh