The Cave Swallow movement continued at Long Point today with the tally by noon standing at 21 at our Old Cut station and the Tip station reporting 24 to that point. The bulk of the movement appears to have peaked here yesterday. The final tallies were 147 at Old Cut, 105 at the Tip and one here at BSC headquarters along with the handful that Matt Timpf reported at Port Rowan harbour last evening.
The crew at the Tip of Long Point also banded a female Spotted Towhee yesterday. Today they banded two of the Cave Swallows flying around the garden there. The impressive diurnal migration continued unabated today. During a three hour migration watch that I conducted at Old Cut, I counted 15 Cave Swallows, 4680 American Robins, 65 Eastern Bluebirds, 800 Horned Larks, 220 Cedar Waxwings, 750 Yellow-rumped Warblers, 2500 American Goldfinches, 500 Purple Finches, 300 Pine Siskins, and 45 meadowlarks. Sometimes it pays to stay out of the office. To read all about the impressive migration this week at Long Point, check out the LPBO Sightings Board at www.bsc-eoc.org/longpoint/index.jsp?targetpg=lpbosight _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list ONTBIRDS@hwcn.org For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
