This afternoon my Mom and I visited Point Farms Provincial Park. The park is reclaimed farmland that has reverted to a very brushy dogwood-dominated pasture type habitat, but also has some sections of mature forest and beach on Lake Huron.
We parked at the Barn and followed the Ravine Trail down to the beach (Below The Bluffs Trail). After very carefully fjording the lively creek emptying out into the lake, we came across a group of CEDAR WAXWINGS. Foraging in the trees in the same area were a PHILADELPHIA VIREO, CANADA WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, TRAILL'S FLYCATCHER and WARBLING VIREO. We returned to the top of the bluffs via a trail, unmarked at the beach, but labelled Sawmill Road at the top. This opened onto a picnic area, from which we followed the drive back to the main road. About halfway down the drive we came across a foraging flock of warblers and flycatchers which included BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, WILSON'S WARBLER, BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER, BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, YELLOW WARBLER, RED-EYED VIREO, LEAST FLYCATCHER and EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE. >From the main road we picked up the Old Farms Trail, which looped through a (very soggy) brushy field. The usual suspects through here, but the highlight was a single CLAY-COLOURED SPARROW singing, just beyond the point in the trail where I gave up trying to keep my feet dry. Other birds seen around the park included GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER, BROWN THRASHER, EASTERN KINGBIRD, EASTERN TOWHEE, FIELD SPARROW, BALTIMORE ORIOLE, EASTERN MEADOWLARK, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, OVENBIRD, CASPIAN TERN, SHARP-SHINNED HAWK, and NORTHERN HARRIER. Directions: Point Farms Provincial Park is on Highway 21, just north of the town of Goderich. Goderich itself is about 70km west of Stratford on Highway 8. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu May 27 02:11:08 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from cp1.hostserve.net (ns2.hostserve.net [205.211.139.41]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82FE94833D for <[email protected]>; Thu, 27 May 2004 02:11:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d57-179-27.home.cgocable.net ([24.57.179.27] helo=C) by cp1.hostserve.net with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BTE8F-0004ud-5x for [email protected]; Thu, 27 May 2004 02:12:47 -0400 From: "Claude Radley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 02:11:13 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Importance: Normal X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cp1.hostserve.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - hwcn.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - radley.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: [Ontbirds] Black-bellied Plovers Hillman Marsh/Franklin's Gulls Pelee onion fields X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 06:11:08 -0000 Greetings May 26th there are still good numbers of shorebirds in the flooded fields near Hillman Marsh. Today we had Black-bellied Plovers and Dunlin at the corner of Con. 2 and Con. 22 (just north of the marsh) as well as 2 unidentified long billed species (no scope). Also a good number of Franklin's Gulls in the onion fields. cheers Claude and Nina Radley Tilbury
