A large group of OFO members and friends (241 registrants) enjoyed a great weekend of birding in the Long Point area and a magnificent banquet and program at Port Dover on Saturday evening. We thank all the organizers and trip leaders who made this such a successful and memorable event.
Information provided to date indicates 174 species reported on Saturday and Sunday, just two species fewer than our all-time OFO Convention record of 176 species set at Point Pelee on 3-4 October 2009! Please look over the complete list below and let me know of any corrections or additions. I incorrectly announced at the Saturday banquet that an Iceland Gull had been seen at Port Stanley on Friday (24 September). I should have said Lesser Black-backed Gull. Hope to see you at the OFO Convention at Point Pelee on 17-18 September 2011. Ron Tozer OFO Convention Checklist Compiler Dwight, ON SPECIES REPORTED ON 25 AND 26 SEPTEMBER IN LONG POINT AREA: GEESE, SWANS & DUCKS Snow Goose Canada Goose Mute Swan Wood Duck Gadwall American Wigeon American Black Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Redhead Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck PARTRIDGES, GROUSE & TURKEYS Wild Turkey LOONS Common Loon GREBES Pied-billed Grebe CORMORANTS Double-crested Cormorant HERONS & BITTERNS Great Blue Heron Great Egret Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron VULTURES Turkey Vulture HAWKS, EAGLES & FALCONS Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon RAILS, GALLINULES & COOTS Virginia Rail Sora Common Moorhen American Coot CRANES Sandhill Crane PLOVERS Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer SANDPIPERS & PHALAROPES Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Red-necked Phalarope GULLS & TERNS Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern PIGEONS & DOVES Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove CUCKOOS Black-billed Cuckoo OWLS Eastern Screech-Owl GOATSUCKERS Common Nighthawk Eastern Whip-poor-will SWIFTS Chimney Swift HUMMINGBIRDS Ruby-throated Hummingbird KINGFISHERS Belted Kingfisher WOODPECKERS Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker TYRANT FLYCATCHERS Eastern Wood-Pewee Alder Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Eastern Kingbird VIREOS Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo JAYS & CROWS Blue Jay American Crow LARKS Horned Lark SWALLOWS Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow CHICKADEES & TITMICE Black-capped Chickadee NUTHATCHES Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch CREEPERS Brown Creeper WRENS Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren Sedge Wren Marsh Wren KINGLETS Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet GNATCATCHERS Blue-gray Gnatcatcher THRUSHES Eastern Bluebird Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin MOCKINGBIRDS & THRASHERS Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher STARLINGS, PIPITS & WAXWINGS European Starling American Pipit Cedar Waxwing WOOD-WARBLERS Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler TANAGERS Scarlet Tanager SPARROWS Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco CARDINALS & ALLIES Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting BLACKBIRDS Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Rusty Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird FINCHES Purple Finch House Finch American Goldfinch OLD WORLD SPARROWS House Sparrow _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
