I did my Big Day of the spring yesterday, May 26th. I actually tried to do one May 25th but had to abort so retried it the next day ... total for the two days was 172 and for May 26th was 157 ... sadly many of the birds that were present on May 25th were gone by the next day ... so here's the results for May 26th only:
Oshawa Second Marsh & Darlington Barrier Beach - 4 Ruddy Turnstone, 3 Black-bellied Plovers, 1 White-rumped Sandpiper, 4 Semi-palmated Sandpipers, 2 Sanderling, 20+ SP Plover, 5 Least Sandpiper, 10+ Spotted Sandpiper, 25+ Dunlin, Redhead, 3 Greater Scaup, 10 White-winged Scoters, Common Merganser, 3 Moorhens, 1 Blue-winged Warbler Thickson's Woods - warblers were very thin - Yellow-billed Cuckoo - singing, Merlin on a kill, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Cranberry Marsh - Ring-necked Duck, Lesser Scaup, 3 Am. Coots Rotary Park - Ajax - 2nd summer Iceland Gull Port Perry - 1 Stilt Sandpiper, 1 Pectoral Sandpiper, 1 Wilson's Phalarope, 100+ Least Sandpiper, 50+ SP Plovers, 10+ SP Sandpipers, 2 Black-bellied Plovers, 2 Lesser Yellowlegs, 1 White-rumped Sandpiper , 50+ Dunlin, Black Duck, 50+ Black Terns Carden Plains - Merlin at Cranberry Lake, 2 Golden-winged Warblers & Black-billed Cuckoo on Wylie Rd., 10+ Common Nighthawks, Grasshopper Sparrow, Loggerhead Shrike, Sedge Wren Here and there in Durham - Barred Owl, Long-eared Owl, Clay-coloured Sparrow Not a bad day all in all - weird misses: Red-tailed Hawk, any accipiter, Purple Martin, YB Sapsucker, Winter Wren, Blackburnian Warbler, and White-crowned Sparrow Directions: Oshawa Second marsh & Darlington Barrier Beach - Exit from the 401 at the Harmony Rd. Exit(419) in Oshawa. Go south on Farewell St. Colonel Sam Drive. Turn East onto Colonel Sam Drive and follow to the parking lot at the GM Headquarters. Park in the west parking lot close to the marsh. The east (GM) platform is visible from the NW corner of the lot. To the Barrier Beach head south to the lake and then east along the shoreline Thickson's Woods - foot of Thickson's Rd. off the 401 Cranberry Marsh - exit 401 at Brock St, Whitby, south to Victoria St, west to Hall's Rd, and south to the Marsh Ajax Waterfront- 401 to Westney Rd. south to Lakedriveway, east then south to Rotary Park. Port Perry - The permits may be purchased at the Durham Region Transfer Site located at 1623 Reach Rd, Port Perry during the following business hours .... Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 6 p.m. To get to the transfer station, travel north on Hwy 12 past Port Perry [Hwy 7A] to the next traffic lights [Regional Road 8 = Reach Rd.] and travel east to #1623 on the north side of the road. The lagoons are located one road north of the transfer site east off Hwy 12 on Concession Rd. 8 [don't get confused as, despite the fact that these roads are both numbered "8", they are two different roads - one is a regional paved road, the other a dirt concession road.] Carden Plains north of Kirkfield (Wylie Rd.) and north of Bolsover (Cranberry Lake) Geoff Carpentier Ajax, Ontario _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdssetup.php ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdsguide.php
