Rondeau Daily Report May23/04 A good warbler day, though the full leaves make it tough viewing. South Point Trail still has some depressed leaves and most of the birds reported this AM came from there. Single Prairie and a late Palm Warbler lead the list but Mourning, Canada, Wilson, Blue-winged, Blackpoll, Blackburnian, Tennessee, Black-throated Green, Black-throated Blue, Magnolia and were all present in some numbers. At 11AM there were 19 species reported and I am sure there are more out there. Also seen were Orchard Oriole, Philadelphia Vireo, and a Pileated Woodpecker foraging in the open was a nice find for several visitors.
The Chuck-Wills-Widow continues to sing at dusk just south of the Visitor Centre on Harrison Road. One listener had this bird, Whip-poor-Will and Common Nighthawk all at the same time last evening. It is generally quiet by 10pm. A 1st year male Orchard Oriole is singing for the second day from trees at the Beach #10 Access Parking Lot. A Carolina Wren has been singing sporadically for two days from the VC area as well. This will be my last report, thanks to the Friends of Rondeau for this opportunity to write them and to you for reading. For more information on events and details on migration check out their website: www.rondeauprovincialpark.ca Good Birding David Bree ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun May 23 11:00:40 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: ontbirds@hwcn.org Received: from e450.mnsi.net (e450.mnsi.net [216.8.137.207]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2684E480E8 for <ontbirds@hwcn.org>; Sun, 23 May 2004 11:00:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ppvrcfriends (dyn216-8-149-212.win.mnsi.net [216.8.149.212]) by e450.mnsi.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i4NF1ijX023821 for <ontbirds@hwcn.org>; Sun, 23 May 2004 11:01:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "fopp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ontbirds" <ontbirds@hwcn.org> Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 11:05:40 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Poiint Pelee Report for May 23 (Sunday) X-BeenThere: ontbirds@hwcn.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 15:00:40 -0000 Point Pelee Report for May 23 (Sunday) The fields north of Point Pelee are still flooded, so gulls and = shorebirds will continue to put in appearances. Shorebirds now peaking = including Whimbrel, Black-bellied Plover, Ruddy Turnstone, Dunlin, = Sanderling, Semipalmated Sandpiper, and Semipalmated Plover, etc.=20 Yesterday afternoon both a Laughing Gull (Concession C) and Franklin's = Gull (north of Hillman Marsh) were found in flooded fields. Also late = yesterday, a flock of 170 Whimbrel was present in a flooded field at = Coterie Park (just north of NE Hillman Marsh). This morning at the Tip there was a good variety of migrants present, = including late-migrating warblers and all of the empidonax flycatchers = excluding Acadian. On the Tip was a first-summer (immature) Lesser = Black-backed Gull. All morning a Connecticut Warbler has been singing just east of the = Visitor Centre. At the Tip at least 2 Summer Tanagers flew south, plus = a Prairie Warbler. Late yesterday an immature Thayer's Gull was at Wheatley Harbour. 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
