Sunday 8 May 2011

8th May 2011 Pt. Pelee

Dry with a light cold northeasterly wind. We walked the Point area twice and then the Woodland Trail, then West Beach and finally Northwest Beach and the Sanctuary.

Double-crested Cormorant 200
Great Blue Heron 8
Great Egret 1
Mute Swan 2
Canada Goose 10
Mallard 5
Scaup 50
Surf Scoter 11
Red-breasted Merganser 200
Turkey Vulture 6
Northern Harrier 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Killdeer 4
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
Dunlin 5
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Bonaparte's Gull 200
Ring-billed Gull 100
American Herring Gull 10
Common Tern 8
Forster's Tern 2
Mourning Dove 20
Great Horned Owl 1
Chimney Swift 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Red-headed Woodpecker 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 5
Northern Flicker 1
Least Flycatcher 1
Empidonax sp. 1
Eastern Kingbird 5
Red-eyed Vireo 2
Warbling Vireo 1
Blue-headed Vireo 2
Blue Jay 10
American Crow 2
Horned Lark 1
Purple Martin 10
Tree Swallow 20
Barn Swallow 20
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch 5
House Wren 1
Long-billed Marsh Wren 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 10
Blue-grey Gnatcatcher 8
American Robin 20
Hermit Thrush 2
Grey Catbird 5
Starling 20
Cardinal 4
Cedar Waxwing 1
Northern Parula 2
Tenessee Warbler 1
Blue-winged Warbler 3
Nashville Warbler 2
Yellow Warbler 20
Chestnut-sided Warbler 3
Magnolia Warbler 3
Black-throated Blue Warbler 3
Blackburnian Warbler 2
Myrtle Warbler 8
Palm Warbler 2
Prothonotary Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 4
American Redstart 2
Kentucky Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 8
Eastern Towhee 2
American Tree Sparrow 1
Chipping Sparrow 6
White-throated Sparrow 10
White-crowned Sparrow 5
Swamp Sparrow 1
Brown-headed Cowbird 20
Red-winged Blackbird 200
Common Grackle 100
Baltimore Oriole 5
Orchard Oriole 5
American Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 10


























Feeding frenzy at the Point
















Bonaparte's Gulls at the Point
























Blue-headed Vireo at the Point






Red-bellied Woodpecker at the Point








Downy Woodpecker at the Point








House Wren singing at the Point


Female Black-and-white Warbler at the Point
























Long-billed Marsh Wren at the Point




















Least Flycatcher at the Point














Male Black-throated Blue Warbler at the Point






















Myrtle Warbler at the Point






Male American Redstart at the Point


American Robin at the Visitor's Center




Male Yellow Warbler along the Woodland Trail




Male Rose-breasted Grosbeak along the Woodland Trail




Racoon along the Woodland Trail








Male Prothonotary Warbler along the Woodland Trail




















Male Yellow Warbler along the Woodland Trail


















































Blue-winged Warbler along the Woodland Trail




Red-headed Woodpecker along the Woodland Trail




Female Yellow Warbler along the Woodland Trail






















American Tree Sparrow along the West Beach






Blue Jay along the West Beach


















Male Magnolia Warbler along the West Beach






Tenessee Warbler at Northwest Beach