Pelee, May 2004

Point Pelee 2004

Another great few days of birding. We were later this year than normal, and the trees were much more in leaf than usual. Quantity of birds was low (best day was 80, compared with a best day last year of 102), but there was good quality, including a few lifers (Worm-eating Warbler!) and a very cooperative Kirtland's Warbler.

Here is a gallery of a few of the notable birds.

Great Egret

As an aside, this snapping turtle floated by the Two-creeks campground at Wheatley Provincial Park where we stayed. It was huge, and looked like it had a stone house grafted to it's shell!

Bird list for the trip (107 species seen, 3 of which heard only; "L" indicates a lifer):

Common Loon	Double Crested Cormorant	Great Blue Heron
Great Egret	Green heron	Black-crowned Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture	Canada Goose	Wood Duck
Mallard	Red-breasted Merganser	Osprey
Bald Eagle	Northern Harrier	Sharp-shinned Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk	Red-tailed Hawk	American Kestrel
Ring-necked Pheasant	Black-bellied Plover	Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper	Ruddy Turnstone	Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull	Herring Gull	Great Black-backed Gull
Common Tern	Rock Pigeon	Mourning Dove
Black-billed Cuckoo	Yellow-billed Cuckoo	Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird	Belted Kingfisher	Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker	Downy Woodpecker	Northern Flicker
Eastern Wood-Pewee	Acadian Flycatcher (L)	Willow Flycatcher (L)
Least Flycatcher	Great-crested Flycatcher	Eastern Kingbird
White-eyed Vireo	Yellow-throated Vireo	Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo	Blue Jay	American Crow
Horned Lark	Purple Martin	Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow	Barn Swallow	Black-capped Chickadee
Carolina Wren	House Wren	Marsh Wren (heard only)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	Eastern Bluebird
Swainson's Thrush	American Robin	Gray Catbird
European Starling	Cedar Waxwing	Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler	Yellow Warbler	Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler	Black-throated Blue Warbler	Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler	Blackburnian Warbler	Kirtland's Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler	Blackpoll Warbler	Cerulean Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler	American Redstart	Worm-eating Warbler (L)
Ovenbird	Common Yellowthroat	Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler	Summer Tanager	Scarlet Tanager
Eastern Towhee (heard only)	Chipping Sparrow (heard only)	Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow	Swamp Sparrow	White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco	Northern Cardinal	Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting	Red-winged Blackbird	Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird	Orchard Oriole	Baltimore Oriole
American Goldfinch	House Sparrow

Total: 107