My apologies for the tardiness of this report but I had no computer access
until we returned from Windsor via Pelee late last night.
Over 20 OFO members met at 8:00 am at the Visitor Centre seeing a Lincoln's
Sparrow at the feeders with some of the more usual 'feeder birds'. The weather
'loomed' but improved greatly until our last stop, when we had to abandon
Blenheim S.L. due to driving rain ~5:00 pm before we could not get to the last
lagoon. We managed to tally just 86 species - surely quite a low count but an
enjoyable and varied day of birding. Species highlights, more or less in order -
South Point Trail - Common Loon(6/7), House Wren, Blackburnian Warbler,
Red-headed Woodpecker, Eastern Towhee, Northern Mockingbird, Warbling Vireo,
Common Yellowthroat, Field, Chipping Sparrow.
Tulip Tree trail - Cooper's Hawk on nest, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Wood
Thrush, Northern Waterthrush.
Spicebush Trail - Wood Duck, Nashville, Black-throated Green Warbler(heard
only), White-throated, White-crowned Sparrow.
Maintenance 'loop' - Black and White, Yellow-rumped Warbler.
Donald Pye and one or two cars proceeded directly to the Blenheim lagoons as
they had other commitments wheras the rest of us drove to Erieau via Shrewsbury
and then to BSL.
Shrewsbury - Great-blue Heron 'heronry', Lesser Scaup, Bufflehead, Lesser
Yellowlegs.
Erieau - Caspian, Forster's Tern, Great Black-backed, Bonaparte's Gull and
Cattle Egret at Erieau Road and Bisnett Line.
Blenheim SL - Northern Shoveler, Bufflehead, Ruddy Duck, Spotted, Pectoral
Sandpiper, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs and Dunlin joined the Wilson's
Phalarope who arrived ~ Mar 17, all six swallow sp, Savannah Sparrow and a pair
of Bobolink as we left.
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8415
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