I have just returned from a trip to Manitoulin Island.Birds seen from Oct.
11th to the 16th. are as follows.
Sandhill Cranes-500+,Turkey Vultures100+,Northern Harrier-12,Palm
Warbler-5,Yellow-Rumped Warbler-10,Eastern Phoebe-3,Brown
Creeper,Golden-Crowned Kinglets,Fox Sparrows,Blue Jays,Common
Ravens,Dark-eyed Juncos,Purple Finches,Black-capped Chickadees,Eastern
Bluebird,Coopers Hawk,Common Mergansers,Red-breasted Mergansers,Great
Black-backed Gulls,Ring-billed Gulls,Canada Geese,Great-blue
Heron-1,White-crowned Sparrows-hundreds daily,Sharp-tailed
Grouse,Shrikes(species unconfirmed)3.
All in all a fairly good week for birds.The White-crowns were a constant at
my sisters in BillingsTWP,and were even feeding from the Silo of Niger
Seed.All Shrikes seen were on the wing and either in pursuit of or carrying
a recent kill.The sightings were from Little Current to Evansville,Barrie
Island to Spring Bay.The largest flock of Sandhills constituted of
approximately 300 Birds, just west of Hwy 540 were it divides ,Going
straight towards the Gore Bay Airport on the South side in the first Corn
Field.
To get to Manitoulin Island you can only access it from Hwy #6 south from
Espanola as the Ferry Service is now halted until May. Travel any road on
Manitoulin and you are sure to find something of interest.
Cheer's; Garth N. Baker/Innisfil,Ont.
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