Today Bob Tyler and I birded Ward’s and Algonquin Islands on a day that turned out to be Spring like and it also turned out to be our best day bird wise this year with good numbers of each species of warblers and following are some of the birds we found.
Great Blue Heron , Green Heron, Great Egrets, 2 Osprey again, Copper’s Hawk, Black-billed Cuckoo, 3 Red-bellied Woodpeckers, 8 flycatcher species E. Wood Pewee, Alder, Willow, Yellow-bellied and Great-Crested Flycatchers, E. Phoebe and E. Kingbirds, Red-breasted Nuthatch, White-breasted Nuthatches, Carolina and House Wrens, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Veerys, Swainson’s, Hermit and Wood Thrushes, Gray Catbirds, Blue-headed, Warbling, Philadelphia and Red-eyed Vireos, 21 warbler species including a Male Golden-winged Warbler, Tennessee Warblers, 2 Orange-crowned Warblers, 12 N. Parulas, Cape May Warblers, Bay-breasted Warblers, Blackburnian Warblers, Blk-throated Blue and Blk-throated Green Warblers, Blackpoll Warblers, 3 Mourning Warblers, 2 Summer Tanagers ( 1 adult Female and 1 immature), 9 Scarlet Tanagers, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Indigo Buntings, Chipping, Swamp White-crowned and Lincoln’s Sparrows, Orchard Oriole and many Baltimore Orioles. The Immature Summer Tanager was along First St. At the east end of Ward’s Island and the female Summer Tanager was on the west end of Algonquin Island. Norm Murr Richmond Hill. ON Sent from Mail for Windows 10 _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide Visit the OFO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists
