Hey Birders.
I was in Manitoulin yesterday (May 7th) for less than 24hrs of birding hoping
to see the Golden-crowned Sparrow. It has not been seen since the morning of
the 6th and given my extensive search I don't have faith it will be seen and
(and WILL NOT appreciate if it is!). There were 50+ White-crowned Sparrows in
this yard and 30+ at the corner down the street so I really couldn't comprehend
why the bird still wasn't there... hmmrpf! There were feather scatterings from
the local cat near the feeder and apparently 4 White-crowneds had hit the
window of this house and parished a day earlier.
Other birds...
Gore Bay Sewage Lagoon - 1 Redhead, 1 male Bobolink, Shoveler, Lesser Scaup,
Wood Duck, Blue and Green-winged Teal, Gadwall, Lesser Yellowlegs (4).
Merlin (2) - different locales, vacinity of Gore Bay
Brewer's Blackbirds are apparently back though I saw NONE. UPLAND SANDPIPERS
(2) courting each other, calling, wing jittering, running alongside each other
at the alvar corner by the Gore Bay airport. No random sharp-tailed sightings.
West Bay at Golden-crowned Sparrow site - male Ring-necked Pheasant, 1 female
Rose-breasted Grosbeak, many Purple Finches (including at least 1 female with a
yellowish cast to the rump and some other feathers, similar to what is
sometimes seen on House Finches, though I have never witnessed this with
Purples before...?)
Also ~35 Rusty Blackbirds (males and females) sat in a tree two houses over
from the site.
Other sightings I heard about...
Marbled Godwit at n.e. end of island and blue-gray gnatcatcher and orchard
oriole seen a couple days earlier by residents.
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