To-day Bill Smith and I birded Wards and Centre up to the R.C.Y.C. bridge at the Snug. We joined Norm Murr and Ian Cannell until about 11A.M. when we split and went our separate ways. The activity level to-day was dramatically lower than on Monday and Tuesday both in numbersof species and individuals seen (except for a profusion of Yellow-rumped Warblers and both Kinglets) however we managed 51 species between 8.00A.M. and 2.15 P.M. Weather was mostly sunny with a light S.E. wind. Here is a partial list of the more interesting birds seen: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Blue-headed Vireo - Gray-cheeked Thrush - Eastern-Towee - Lincoln's sparrow - Brown Creeper - Eastern Phoebe - Sharp-shinned and Cooper's Hawk - Peregrine Falcon - Rusty Blackbird (flyover) We saw only 7 species of Warbler which included Orange-crowned - a male and female Blackburnian - Nashville - Common Yellow-throat - Blackpole. 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/
