Good birding on the Island Wednesday. We covered only Ward's Island (including Algonquin) between 8 and 3 and finished just before the firehouse. Thanks to the overnight rain there were birds everywhere and the weather was mild and sunny until just before we left with light winds from the southeast. We tallied 57 species and no doubt missed a few others as sorting through the very large numbers of Yellow-rumped Warblers and R.C. Kinglets looking for the "goodies" added a lot of time and frustration. Other than the expected species we saw: 14 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers - Philadelphia and Red-eyed Vireo - House and Winter Wren - Brown Creeper - Cooper's and Sharp-shinned Hawks - Bald Eagle - 5 specie of Thrush including 4 Gray-cheeked, Swainson's and 5+ Hermit - Brown Thrasher - several Scarlet Tanagers - Song, Lincoln's and many White-throated Sparrows. The warblers included Tennessee - 4 Orange-crowned - Nashville - 4 Northern Parula - many Magnolia - Black-throated Blue - Blackburnian - Black-throated Green - Palm - Blackpole - American Redstart - Common Yellow-throat - Wilsons and big numbers of Yellow-rumped.
BillSmit and Peter McParland _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
