Late May 2001/Early June
All photographs copyright Paul Gale Bird Photography
Slides and negatives scanned in
Summary of Notes taken
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Tuesday 2 Sandhill Cranes 1 Great Egret House Finch - males Black-capped Chickadee |
Wednesday Eastern Towhee Eastern Kingbird Wilson's Warbler Black-bellied Plovers - flock Great Egret - yellow bill Warbling Vireo at tip Blue Jay Red Cardinal American Redstart Cedar Waxwing American Robin Gray-cheeked Thrush at tip Knat-catcher Eastern Screech Owl American Goldfinch Black-throated Warbler, flying over car park Gray Catbird |
Thursday St Clair's Marsh American Kestrel on lines Horned Lark in field Forsters Tern Black Terns Pied-billed Grebe Canada Geese Belted Kingfisher flew past Northern Harrier - male Warbling Vireo Common Yellowthroat Yellow Warbler Fox snake, turtles, Monarch Butterfly
Wheatley Bald Eagle Chimney Swifts Belted Kingfisher - campsite Hillman's Marsh Blue-winged Teal attacked by Red-winged Blackbird Killdeer
Board walk at Pelee American Bittern Dunlin Common Yellowthroat Green heron - flight Swamp Sparrows |
Friday - marsh board walk.
Least Bittern 2 Sandhill Cranes 2 Northern Harriers Black Tern Forsters Tern Purple Martin Northern Rough-winged Swallow Cedar Waxwings Common Yellowthroat Chimney Swifts
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Sunday Car park - Red-eyed Vireo, American Robin Tip Cedar Waxwings Warbling Vireo 2 Semipalmated Sandpiper 10 Sanderlings 2 Grey Plover Gull with extensive black on wing tips 2 Semipalmated Plovers
Hillman Marsh Turkey Vulture Spotted Sandpiper m + 2f Blue-winged Teal Boneparte's Gull Great Blue Heron Sandwich Tern? Killdeer
Point Pelee Wood Thrush on path Chimney Swifts |
Monday Cedar Waxwings Orchard Oriole Gnatcatcher at nest 1 Semipalmanted Sandpiper 3 Semipalmated Plovers Sanderlings Turkey Vulture landed in trees in Park |
Thursday Hillman's Marsh drake Blue-winged Teal Black-billed Cuckoo Tree Swallow North American Black Terns - slate grey back, rump and tail |
Friday Pt Pelee m American Redstart m Myrtle Warbler Wren Blue Jays in trees at point Yellow warblers Cedar Waxwings Tree Swallows Ring-billed Gulls, Herring Gulls on beach Double-crested Cormorants Red Cardinal Magnolia Warlber Northern Oriole Turkey Vulture Chestnut-sided Warbler Wilson's Warbler (yellow warbler with black cap, yellow above eye) Spotted Sandpiper on beach Eastern Kingbird |
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Saturday 2f American Redstart Sandhill Crane flying over marsh, very pale Cliff Swallows Great Blue Heron Killdeer m + f American Redstart Common Yellowthroat (m + f) Gray-cheeked Thrush - washing in puddle Gray Catbird Ruby-throated Hummingbird Indigo Bunting Red Cardinal Turkey Vulture flying over Gnatcatcher - mobbing Cowbird Cedar Waxwings Warbling Vireo Daulaurier trail American Crow Brown Thrasher flying off
Marsh Common Yellowthroat Northern Harrier, male - more contrast than Hen Harrier, very white rump, mobbed by 20 Red-winged Blackbirds, dropped in reeds, flew off with chick |
Also seen, probable Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Eastern Bluebird and Ovenbird |
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