Hello All,
Spent a soggy 2 hours ( 11 am - 1 ) at John E. Pearce Provincial Park
today along Lake Erie. Too bad there weren't any others birding to
enjoy it with me! Not the rain but the birds! I wandered
along through the entirety of this petite park, sticking to the
Lakeside forest, dense conifers and shrubby bits, as well as it's
cliffside border. Highlights were:
Tennessee
warbler
Golden-winged
warbler
Chestnut-sided
warbler
Nashville
warbler
Bay-breasted
warbler
Yellow
warbler
Black and white
warbler
Yellow-rumped
warbler
Blackburnian
warbler
commom yellowthroat
Baltimore
oriole
Orchard Oriole ( pair
)
Eastern Towhee ( pair, F with nesting
material ! )
Indigo
Bunting
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Northern
Rough-winged swallow
Cliff
swallow
Barn
swallow
Tree
swallow
Bank swallow
have a nice week,
Lucas
Foerster
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London, ON.
Directions to John E. Pearce
P.P:
This 68 Ha Nature Reserve is located due South of
London on the North shore of Lake Erie. It's easily found by way of
HWY 3 ( runs parallel to 401 ), west of St. Thomas and east of West
Lorne. Well marked signs in the village of Wallacetown point you to
the park.
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WEEKLY BIRD REPORT FROM PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY AND THE QUINTE AREA FOR
Sunday, May 02, 2004
As someone aptly described this weekend, "It's almost as if someone opened
the flood gates on the spring migration."
While on a guided canoe paddle and interpretive hike at Frontenac Provincial
Park on Saturday, WARBLING VIREOS were calling energetically from many of
the trees beside Birch Lake. Numerous too were BLACK-THROATED GREEN
WARBLERS, BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLERS, BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLERS, PINE
WARBLERS and YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, along with one NASHVILLE WARBLER, AND 2
GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHERS.
Back in Prince Edward County, and the normal reporting area, the scene was
much the same. Most birds have arrived in record time, and there is some
concern if anything will be left when Bird Migration Awareness Week is held
in the county May 15-22! Certainly, most birders that week will have to be
sound oriented as the trees are quickly coming into leaf right now. Some
early records included NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH at Vanderwater Conservation Area
at Thomasburg on April 28th, an EASTERN KINGBIRD near McIntyre Road in
Ameliasburgh on April 29th, ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK in Trenton the same day,
5 ORCHARD ORIOLES and BALTIMORE ORIOLE, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT and VEERY at
Prince Edward Point on the 30th. There was a very early MOURNING WARBLER
near Carrying Place today. CHIMNEY SWIFTS and GREEN HERON were also seen in
that area today. BOBOLINKS were noted yesterday on Old Milford Road
yesterday, and today at Big Island. GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS showed up yesterday
at Niles Corners north of Wellington and today at Carrying Place.
Understandably, Prince Edward Point is literally hopping. Bird bander David
Okines reports that over 800 birds were banded during the week. Fifteen
species of warblers were seen during the week including firsts in
BLUE-WINGED, NASHVILLE, YELLOW, MAGNOLIA, BLACK-AND WHITE, CHESTNUT-SIDED,
OVENBIRD, AMERICAN REDSTART and COMMON YELLOWTHROAT. A GREEN HERON came in
off the lake on April 30th and a BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON was seen in the
harbour that day as well. LONG-TAILED DUCK numbers have dropped off but up
to 600 are still offshore and CASPIAN TERNS are a regular in the harbour
now. BONAPARTE'S GULLS are still moving offshore with 700 - 1,000 seen most
days. On April 23rd, an impressive 44 LITTLE GULLS passed by in one hour
with the BONAPARTE'S. Two ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS and a GOLDEN EAGLE were seen on
the 26th. The first GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER appeared on the 29th and an
EASTERN KINGBIRD appeared on May 1st and a LEAST FLYCATCHER today. BLUE JAYS
have started to move through with increasing numbers expected over the next
few weeks. The first VEERY and WOOD THRUSH were seen on the 30th. A NORTHERN
PARULA was found yesterday and up to 150 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS and 15
western PALM WARBLERS have been seen in the last few days. Six yellow PALM
WARBLERS have been seen at the Observatory so far this spring with five of
them being trapped. A SCARLET TANAGER was west of the harbour today, a late
FOX SPARROW was trapped on the 29th and a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW has returned
and sings most days behind the Observatory. Eastern WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS
are now being seen and a Gambels WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW was trapped on the
30th. PURPLE FINCHES (120) were counted on the 29th, and a LESSER
BLACK-BACKED GULL was offshore on the 27th.
Other good sightings during the week included UPLAND SANDPIPERS at Babylon
Road on April 26th and one at Point Petre the following day, 2 WOOD DUCKS at
Ebbers Lane off County Road 14, SANDHILL CRANE in flight over the Prince
Edward Point banding station on April 29th, nesting EASTERN BLUEBIRDS on
Black Road, COMMON RAVEN at Elmbrook April 28th and 29th, 2 LEAST BITTERNS,
SORA, COMMON MOORHENS, 10 MARSH WRENS, and 3 GRAY CATBIRDS yesterday on the
Millennium Trail near Danforth Road, 3 BALD EAGLES at Prinyer's Cove on
April 28th, and HOUSE WRENS and a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER today at Carrying
Place. What can I say? The county is seething with birds right now.
A request has come in from New York to be on the watch for any PIPING
PLOVERS with bands, both aluminum and coloured. A very large portion of the
of the Great Lakes population is banded, perhaps as many as 90%. Reports may
be sent to me and I will forward them on.
And that's it for this week from Prince Edward County and the Quinte area.
Our thanks to Nick Quickert, Peter Doherty, Lloyd Paul, Herman Ebbers, Gord
Miller, Joanne Dewey, David Bree, John Blaney, Angela Mantle, John Charlton,
Beth McPherson, Susan Ainsworth, Cecile Yarrow, Don Craighead, Doris Lane,
Bill Hogg, Art McConnell, Judy Bell, Thomas Rymes and Wynne Thomas for their
contributions to this week's report. This report also appears on the Birding
page at www.naturestuff.net and will be updated by 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, May
9th. Bird sightings must be in by 6:00 p.m. on Sunday evening to be included
in the next report. Good spring birding.
Terry Sprague
Picton, Ontario
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