Hello ,
This is my first entry so hopefully this all qualifies as sightings
at Holiday Beach Provincial Park
1 Female Yellowbellied Sapsucker
numerous American coots
Ruddy ducks (m & f)
Blue Winged Teals (m &f)
2 female Northern flickers
1 Brown Thrasher
@ 20 Great Egrets
and 5 Great Blue Herons
1 Marsh Wren
Take Care and good birding
TJ Brian
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Subject: [Ontbirds] OFO Trip to Tiny Marsh
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After running the gauntlet of a nasty morning=92s seemingly endless cloud=
cover, several sobering flashes of scope-discouraging lightning, and
several bothersome bouts of binocular-clouding rains, 40 hardy
participants on today=92s OFO trip to Tiny Marsh were eventually rewarded=
with balmy temperatures, clear blue skies and a very nice assortment of
spring arrivals. As the day steadily improved, so did the birding - by
the time the last eight stalwart birders packed things in at 5:00 p.m.,
the group=92s collective list had reached 64 species.
Highlights included several good looks (and listens) at SANDHILL CRANES,
two AMERICAN BITTERNS, a lone GREAT EGRET, our first two warbler species
of the spring (YELLOW-RUMPED and PINE), 14 duck species, two OSPREY, six
WILD TURKEYS, numerous TREE SWALLOWS and a single BARN SWALLOW, a very
early GREAT-CRESTED FLYCATCHER, several RUSTY BLACKBIRDS, and - perhaps
most surprising of all - a SHORT-EARED OWL flying along the dike trail.
Other spring arrivals of interest were several EASTERN PHOEBES, EASTERN
MEADOWLARKS, PIED-BILLED GREBES, NORTHERN HARRIERS, BELTED KINGFISHERES
and a FOX SPARROW.
Many thanks to those of you who joined me hiking and birding around this
beautiful wetland. You are great sports for having stuck with it during
those gray and gloomy hours before the weather turned.
Ron Fleming, Newmarket
