Hello Birders, Mark Wiercinski and I just completed a gruelling big day 'Baillie Birdathon' on the Bruce Peninsula. Despite terrible weather (high winds and 5 hours of rain) we managed to dig up 154 species (the record for this region, which we set last year is 162 species). Here are some highlights:
species total: 154 (152 shared) time: 1:56am to 8:15pm (18 hours) distance driven: 458 km basic route: Tobermory - Port Elgin - Owen Sound - Wiarton - Cabot Head - Tobermory diet: 4 lbs of junkfood and huge doses of caffeine weather complaints: hundreds Notable Birds: -Snowy Egret (at Miramichi Bay, near Port Elgin) - same bird reported earlier today (we found it independently) -Red-necked Grebe (1 - Dyers Bay) -Northern Shoveler (4 - Wiarton Sewage Ponds) -Ruddy Duck (1 female - Wiarton Sewage Ponds) -White-winged Scoter (30 - from Cabot Head Provincial Nature Reserve) -Black Scoter (4 - Cabot Head) -Long-tailed Duck (8 - Cabot Head) -Northern Goshawk (1 on nest near Tobermory) -Rough-legged Hawk (1 dark morph - near Dyers Bay) -Peregrine Falcon (1 - Cabot Head) -Sandhill Crane (4 - Crane Lake, Bruce Peninsula National Park) -Semipalmated Plover (10 - Miramichi Bay and Stokes Bay) -Semipalmated Sandpiper (2 - Miramichi Bay) -Black Tern (15 - Wiarton Sewage Ponds) -Common Tern (many along Lake Huron shoreline) -Barred Owl (1 - calling northeast of Howdenvale) -Red-bellied Woodpecker (3 - east boundary of MacGregor Point Provincial Park) -Alder Flycatcher (1) -Philadelphia Vireo (1 - MacGregor Point PP) -Golden-winged Warbler (1 - MacGregor Point PP) -Blue-winged Warbler (1 - MacGregor Point PP) -Mourning Warbler (1 - MacGregor Point PP) -Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (2 - MacGregor Point PP) -American Pipit (11 - Dyers Bay) -Canada Warbler (2 - Cabot Head) -Northern Parula (1 - Cabot Head) -Blackpoll Warbler (1 - Stokes Bay) -Clay-coloured Sparrow (1 - near Larkwhistle, Dyers Bay) -Brewer's Blackbird (3 - Ferndale Flats) Sorry, I'm too tired to put directions to all the places! Happy birding, Ethan Meleg Nature Photography (Tobermory) web: www.ethanmeleg.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Ethan Meleg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm for information on leaving and joining the list. As well as general information and content guidelines.
