Little change in the weather or the numbers of birds was noted this morning. Moderately strong west winds continue to blow through the Park. Consequently the same (low) numbers and species appear to be present. Not surprisingly, all of the more productive areas are either on the east side of the Park or in more sheltered areas. Some of the species reported this morning included both Virginia Rail and Sora (both heard calling) along the east end of the Shuster Trail, an immature Bald Eagle seen regularly flying back and forth past the Visitor Centre, Pine and Palm Warblers east of the Tip train stop, an adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL at the Tip, scattered Yellow Warblers throughout, Also of interest was some late lingering Dark-eyed Juncos, a dark morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, EASTERN PHOEBE along the Woodland nature Trail and an unidentified WATERTHRUSH near the Sparrow Field. The female BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER was not reported yesterday but may still be about somewhere. The group of birds it was frequenting with still seem to be present. Also seen yesterday was an adult MISSISSIPPI KITE, observed flying south over the Shuster Trail. Unfortunately it was not observed again flying back in the opposite direction. The female PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was reported as late as 5:30 p.m., just east of the Sparrow Field and a SEDGE WREN skulked about along the trail south of the Sparrow Field. Neither have been seen today. YELLOW-THROATED VIREO and LINCOLN'S SPARROW round out the list of noteworthy birds. Additional species reported outside the Park yesterday were 14 AMERICAN AVOCETS at Wheatley Harbour, 75-80 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS at Kopagaron Woods (near Wheatley), 1 BLACK TERN south of Wheatley and a male YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD at Paula's Fish Place. Good Birding, Friends of Point Pelee John Haselmayer, Karl Konze, Ross Mackintosh, Dave Martin, Pete Read and Alan Wormington **************************** Point Pelee National Park of Canada and the Friends of Point Pelee brings you the Festival of Birds 2005, from April 30 - May 31. The Friends of Point Pelee offers daily birding hikes, including evening hikes from Wednesday to Saturday to May 21. Quest Nature Tours and Bushnell Performance Optics sponsor County Bus Tours on May 7 & 14. First Annual Fund-raising Dinner, Friday, May 13 with guest speaker, Chris Earley. Visit www.pc.gc.ca/pelee or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more information. *********************************************
