Point Pelee

Point Pelee - 2006

One of the wettest ever

May 12-15, 2006
Generally, this was one of the wettest trips we've had since I started going back in the late 70's. It rained every day, sometime hard, and really made the picture taking very difficult. I think the birding also suffered a bit, with some 154 species seen over the trip.		Male and female Scarlet Tanagers	Merv Cormier travelled with us, and later Pattie's mom, Diane, and sister, Ann, joined us. Merv's tent demonstrated a tendency to float away in the rainy muck. His tent heater was probably the only thing that saved his sanity. Even leaving we were stuck with storms until we got to Fredericton.
	Two Eastern Screech Owls were quite reliable at two spots in Tilden Woods.
Lincoln's Sparrow	Carolina Wren	A Virginia Opossum made for an interesting distraction.
Eastern Kingbird	Mute Swan	Veery	Great-crested Flycatcher
Rose-breasted Grosbeak	Rose-breasted Grosbeak	Northern Goshawk	Black-billed Cuckoo
Wild Turkey	Palm Warbler	We had 27 warblers (including a Prothonotary at Rondeau on the 16th), but not many great pictures. Cerulean was a great find, but it was in the middle of a downpour and of course Merv and I were pointing our cameras straight up into the rain(!)	Cape May Warbler
Magnolia Warbler	Ovenbird	Canada Warbler	Cerulean Warbler

Birds seen (L=Lifer; H = heard only, NB or PQ = New Brunswick or Quebec while on the road), total 154 species:

Pacific Loon (L)	Common Loon	Pied-billed Grebe	Double-crested Cormorant	Great Blue Heron	Great Egret
Green Heron	Black-crowned Night-Heron	Turkey Vulture	Snow Goose (PQ)	Canada Goose	Mute Swan
Wood Duck	Gadwall	American Wigeon	American Black Duck	Mallard	Blue-winged Teal
Green-winged Teal	Ring-necked Duck	Lesser Scaup	Red-breasted Merganser	Osprey	Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier	Sharp-shinned Hawk	Cooper's Hawk	Northern Goshawk	Broad-winged Hawk	Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel	Peregrine Falcon	Ring-necked Pheasant	Ruffed Grouse	Wild Turkey	American Coot
Black-bellied Plover	Semipalmated Plover	Killdeer	Lesser Yellowlegs	Solitary Sandpiper	Willet
Spotted Sandpiper	Ruddy Turnstone	Least Sandpiper	Dunlin	Short-billed Dowitcher	Wilson's Snipe
American Woodcock	Bonaparte's Gull	Ring-billed Gull	HErring Gull	Great Black-backed Gull	Common Tern
Forster's Tern	Black Tern	Rock Dove	Mourning Dove	Black-billed Cuckoo	Eastern Screech Owl
Common Nighthawk	Chimney Swift	Ruby-throated Hummingbird	Belted Kingfisher	Red-headed Woodpecker	Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker	Pileated Woodpecker (NB)	Eastern Wood-Pewee	Yellow-bellied Flycatcher	Willow Flycatcher	Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe	Great Crested Flycatcher	Eastern Kingbird	White-eyed Vireo	Yellow-throated Vireo	Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo	Philadelphia Vireo	Red-eyed Vireo	Blue Jay	American Crow	Common Raven (NB)
Horned Lark	Purple Martin	Tree Swallow	Northern Rough-winged Swallow	Bank Swallow	Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow	Black-capped Chickadee	Red-breasted Nuthatch	White-breasted Nuthatch	Carolina Wren	House Wren
Marsh Wren (H)	Ruby-crowned Kinglet	Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	Easter Bluebird	Veery	Swainson's Thrush
Wood Thrush	American Robin	Gray Catbird	Brown Thrasher	Cedar Waxwing	Blue-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler	Nashville Warbler	Northern Parula	YellowWarbler	Chestnut-sided Warbler	Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler	Black-throated Blue Warbler	Yellow-rumped Warblers	Black-throated Green Warbler	Blackburnian Warbler	Palm Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler	Blackpoll Warbler (H)	Cerulean Warbler	Back-and-white Warbler	American Redstart	Prothonotary Warbler
Ovenbird	Northern Waterthrush	Mourning Warbler	Common Yellowthroat	Hooded Warbler	Wilson's Warbler
CanadaWarbler	Yellow-breasted Chat (H)	Scarlet Tanager	Eastern Towhee	Chipping Sparrow	Field Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow	Song Sparrow	Lincoln's Sparrow	Swamp Sparrow	White-thorated Sparrow	White-crowned Sparrow
Northern Cardinal	Rose-breasted Grosbeak	Red-winged Blackbird	Eastern Meadowlark	Common Grackle	Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole	Baltimore Oriole	American Goldfinch	House Sparrow