Hi all: Yesterday at Baptiste Lake South, Millionaires Lane #80 and #227 just beyond. Four black-throated blue warblers with three males and one female. I believe on my first day here that the warbler that I saw from habits and call was actually a juvenile black-throated blue warbler. Today lot #80 Millionaires Lane, South Baptiste Lake, I was surprised to get a close up personal with a winter wren. This bird came within a foot and vocalized for a time. I noticed its scold call shortly after spotting a pileated woodpecker. The pileated woodpeckers here are resident, but I suspect the wren was just passing through. Highway 127 and then on to 60 W. Algonquin National Park East. Just at the entrance was a turkey vulture and I saw another at the Spruce Bog Boardwalk Trail. There was a common grackle near the entrance. Maybe still plentiful here, I do not know, but the first one I've seen since entering Ontario. At the Interpretative Centre along the Logging Museum Trail, one black-throated blue warbler, three gray jays, and four wood ducks of interest. The wood ducks were of two males and two females. Lake Opeongo, at the marsh start along the road there was a northern harrier today. Along the Spruce Bog Boardwalk trail were four American pipits, a blue-headed vireo and a white-crowned sparrow. According to park staff white-crowned sparrows are dropping in there everywhere. James R. Hirtle visiting from NS. _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE_______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list ONTBIRDS@hwcn.org For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdshow.htm ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm
