Just back from 2 productive days' birding in Algonquin Park. Beautiful weather too.
Found the "big 5" boreal species : many Ravens, 9 Boreal Chickadees, 6 Gray Jays, a pair of Black-backed Woodpeckers above the Oxtongue Picnic Grounds, and a male Spruce Grouse displaying to a female at the Spruce Bog.
Hundreds of singing White-winged Crossbills, Goldfinches and Purple Finches. Also saw 4 Pine Grosbeaks on Opeongo Road, Pine Siskins, Ruffed grouse, 4 flocks of Evening Grosbeaks (one at Visitor Centre), 2 Brown Creepers, 4 Pileated Woodpeckers, both Nuthatches, Crows, etc...
At Whitney yesterday on the Madawaska River was a male Hooded Merganser. 2 Robins there this morning.
On Tuesday found 4 Red-necked Grebes on the Otonabee River just south of Lakefield (n. of Peterborough), plus several Common Goldeneyes and Common Mergansers.
Dave Milsom
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