This past weekend in Algonquin Park, Sat May 24, my parents and I completed our 2008 Baillie Birdathon. We traveled along highway 60 with stops at most of the hiking trails. Here is what we saw (sorry abundance wasn’t recorded) and where we saw it: Mew Lake Campground: Canada Goose Merlin Herring Gull Barred Owl Winter Wren American Robin Nashville Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Ovenbird Dark-eyed Junco American Goldfinch Evening Grosbeak Old Airfield and surrounding area: Ruffed Grouse Pileated Woodpecker American Crow Common Raven Black-capped Chickadee Golden-crowned Kinglet Hermit Thrush Northern Waterthrush Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Hardwood Lookout Trail: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Blue-headed Vireo Blue Jay (imitating a Broad-winged call) Red-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Bat Lake Trail: American Black Duck Lesser Scaup Northern Harrier Spotted Sandpiper Canada Warbler Swamp Sparrow Sanitary Station: Ruby-crowned Kinglet White-crowned Sparrow Visitor’s Centre: Veery Chipping Sparrow Opeongo Rd.: Turkey Vulture Northern Flicker Red-eyed Vireo Chestnut-sided Warbler Beaver Pond: Common Merganser Broad-winged Hawk Spruce Boardwalk: Spruce Grouse American Bittern Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Lake of Two Rivers Campground: Common Merganser American Black Duck Common Loon European Starling Common Yellowthroat Wilson’s Warbler Along Highway 60 (near Spruce Boardwalk Trail) Great Blue Heron Whip-poor-will Directions (courtesy of Ron Tozer):Algonquin Park is three hours north of Toronto, via Highways400, 11 and 60. Follow the signs, which start in Toronto onHighway 400. From Ottawa, take Highway 17 to Renfrew, thenfollow Highway 60 to the park. Kilometre markers along Highway60 in the Park go from the West Gate (km 0) to the East Gate(km 56). _________________________________________________________________
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