Good evening eh. Today Naish McHugh and I visited Presqu'ile Prov. Park during a beautiful spring day (gloat, gloat) and we found some interesting birds as we roamed around and the following list a taste of birds down there.
Green-winged Teals, Blue-winged Teals, N. Shovelers, Redheads, Lesser Scaup, Green Heron, Common Moorhens, Lesser Yellowlegs, Pectoral and Spotted Sandpipers, Bonaparte's Gulls, Hairy and 2 Pileated Woodpeckers, Least Flycatchers, Brown Thrashers, White-breasted Nuthatch, Winter and House Wrens, lots of Purple Martins, Blue-winged, Yellow, Yellow-rumped, Black-throated green, 3 Pine, Palm and Black-and-white Warblers, and also Ovenbird, Lincoln's, White-crowned, Chipping and Field Sparrows, E. Towhees and Baltimore Orioles, plus a passle of the usual birds. There are many Caspian Terns, Great Blue Herons and Black-crowned night-Herons overhead and the place seems full of Song Sparrows. Note: - If you are birding the Lighthouse area at Presqu'ile Point be sure to walk onto the residential street just north of the lighthouse and go to a house on the right (about 3 houses up) and you will see a bird sightings board. This is the PRIVATE residence of Birder Fred Helleiner. Stop and talk and ask to enter your better sightings on his board. I did this morning but no sign of Fred so I took the liberty of entering some sightings. Good Birding and back to the Islands. DIRECTIONS PRESQU’ILE PROVINCIAL PARK Exit Hwy 401 at exit # 509 and drive south on County Rd 30 straight through Brighton going straight down Cedar St. to Harbour St. Turn right (west) here and follow Harbour St. to Lakeshore Rd and turn left (south). You will almost immediately pass through the park gate (FEE). --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Eliminate annoying spam! My mailbox is protected by iHateSpam, the #1-rated spam buster." http://www.ihatespam.net
