Migration Watch at Port Burwell PP
September 7, 2003
This morning, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, 12 visitors and campers joined
us to count hawks, passerines, butterflies and dragonflies migrating past
Port Burwell PP.
Highlights included 55 Sharp-shinned Hawks, 52 American Kestrels, 3 Osprey,
289 Monarchs, 237 American Goldfinches, 2 Common Nighthawks and 30
Ruby-throated Hummingbirds. On the beach were 6 adult Little Gulls, 100s
of Bonaparte's Gulls and Common Terns, 2 Sanderlings and 1 Black-bellied
Plover. Our Monarch butterfly count was only a tiny portion of the large
numbers of Monarchs moving west along the Lake Erie shoreline today.
The interpretive migration watch will be held for the next 5 Sundays
including Oct 12 and one Sat [Sept 27] from 9:00 a.m. to noon.
Port Burwell PP is on the Lake Erie shoreline west of Long Point and south
of Tillsonburg at the east end of Elgin County. The migration watch is at
parking lot # 5 in the day-use/beach portion of the park.
Cost: Park entry fee ($6.00) or use your Ontario Parks season's pass.
Dave Martin, Ross Snider, Linda Wladarski, Terry Ricker
Port Burwell, ON
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