Point Pelee was quite active today compared to reports from yesterday. In 6 hours of birding the Park today Dave and Maureen Harvey from Maryland and I recorded 14 species of warbler including: Nashville; Yellow; Magnolia; Cape May (5); Pine; Prairie; Bay-breasted (3); Blackpoll (2); Black-and-white (5); American Redstart (4); Northern Waterthrush; Mourning; Common Yellowthroat (12); Canada (2 including a male in beautiful breeding plumage). Shorebirds at the Tip included 1 Ruddy Turnstone and 13 Sanderling. Flycatchers were well represented with 8 species including: Olive-sided (5); Eastern Wood-Pewee; Yellow-bellied; Acadian; Alder; Least; Eastern Phoebe and Great Crested (3). Other birds of interest included: Brown Thrasher; Indigo Bunting; singing Eastern Towhee; Veery; Yellow-billed Cuckoo in DeLaurier and Black-billed Cuckoo at the Tip; Red-bellied Woodpecker; Warbling (11), Red-eyed (5) and Philadelphia Vireo; and an immature Broad-winged Hawk sitting on a branch right over the tram at the Tip. The Marsh Boardwalk produced 2 Black Tern, a Virginia Rail, 3 Marsh Wren, a Swamp Sparrow and a calling Least Bittern. Todd R. Pepper 36 Cherrywood Avenue Leamington, ON, N8H 4Z9 [email protected] "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin" William Shakespeare _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
