POINT PELEE PARK BIRD REPORT MAY 12 A clear night and southerly winds took the migrants out and deposited some new ones. The tip is not nearly as active today. Not many reports from elsewhere in the park so far.
No new report of the SWAINSON'S WARBLER, reported from the tip, yesterday, midday. Nor the KIRTLAND'S WARBLER, from yesterday, first reported near DeLaurier along the Anders Trail, but we learned today, that a male KIRTLAND'S WARBLER was reported out on the parking lot at Northwest Beach, later in the day. At the tip today, a light reverse migration. A Summer Tanager, Bobolink, orioles, jays, and several warbler species were seen flying off. A DICKCISSEL was seen along the west side of the tip. The grass at the side of the trail on the west side of the tip, south of the solar panel, still contained a HENSLOW'S SPARROW. White-eyed Vireo singing on east side of Loop Woods, and elsewhere. Mourning and Canada Warblers were reported just east of the tip washrooms, in Loop Woods. A Grasshopper Sparrow was also on the grass in the tram loop beside the Visitor Centre. A Yellow-billed Cuckoo was located behind the Visitor Centre. Also on the Woodland Nature Trail, a Mourning Warbler. Connecticut Warbler was seen near the DeLaurier House. Tilden's Wood trail has a smattering of warbler species, but N. Waterthrush is still being seen at the north end boardwalk. We haven't heard that the Prothonotary Warbler has been sighted there today. Both a male and female were reported yesterday. In Tilden's there also is a White-eyed Vireo singing. Good bird'n Friends of Point Pelee John Haselmayer, Dave Martin, Ross Mackintosh, Pete Read, Alan Wormington ************************************************ The Point Pelee National Park Festival of Birds, 2004, runs from May 1 to May 31.Friends of Point Pelee offers 4 to 7 bird hikes per day including evening hikes Wed to Sat. Quest Tours and Bushnell sponsor county bus tours on May 8 and May 15. Visit www.wincom.net/~fopp
