From 9:00 am to 2:00 pm I birded the park, most of time with Monique
Fischer and the last hour with Bruce Wilkinson. It was more a day of
quality not quantity, with a minor fallout from the over night rain.
The White-eyed Vireo was found just as I was leaving the park through
the east entrance to 13th Street near the 'small bowl'. I was singing
sporadically and song is very distinctive. It was in the dense
shrubbery just south of gate where a lot of warblers and wrens are
seen in spring. I was quite tame, with views as close as 15 feet.
Here are the warbler counts: Yellow-rumped: 112; Magnolia: 21:
Nashville: 20; Tennessee and Ovenbird: 6; Black-throated Blue, Black-
and-white and Chestnut-sided: 4; Palm, Black-throated Blue and
Northern Parula: 3: Northern Waterthrush and Yellow: 2; singles of
Bay-breasted, Common Yellowthroat, American Redstart and Cape May.
There was a good variety of thrushes including Gray-cheeked.
Directions: the park is located off the south end of KIpling at
Lakeshore Boulevard.
Wayne Renaud (289-828-0043)
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