*Friends of Point Pelee provide guided birding hikes throughout the Festival of Birds at Point Pelee National Park of Canada. Proceeds from hikes support the Friends of Point Pelee and Point Pelee National Park. This submitted report is a service of the Friends of Point Pelee Hike Leaders.* ** *Point Pelee National Park Migration Update for: May 14, 2012. As of 11 a.m. today a total of 20 warbler species had been seen or reported.*
The Shuster Trail was the place to be this morning at Point Pelee National Park. A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT continued to call and display approximately 50 metres east of the intersection with the Tilden Trail. Further east on the Shuster Trail a VIRGINIA RAIL was out foraging in the open. Other goodies on the Shuster Trail were a CANADA WARBLER and BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO. Black-billed Cuckoos were widely distributed through the Park with reports from the Tip, Sparrow Field, Post Woods, Shuster and Pioneer. NORTHERN PARULAS were heard in a number of locations as well as many TENNESSEE WARBLERS. The pair of PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS continue to sing, display and show breeding behaviour at the south-east bridge of the Woodland Trail. In the same general area a CERULEAN WARBLER was reported. It was fairly quiet at the Tip although a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was flying around near the washroom building, BLACKPOLL WARBLERS were heard and seen in the tram circle, and BLACK-AND-WHITE and BLUE-WINGED WARBLERS were seen near the Sparrow Field. A NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD was on the south end of the West Beach Trail close to the tram stop. Good Birding, Hike Leaders: Pete, Karl, Todd, Justin, John, Ellen, and Alvan FESTIVAL OF BIRDS May 3 through May 21, 2012 Point Pelee National Park of Canada and Friends of Point Pelee For more information on the festival and archived Point Pelee Migration Reports, please check our www.festivalofbirds.ca FOLLOW the park on Twitter.com/PointPeleeNP<file:///E:/Point%20Pelee%20Migration%20Update%20-%20Template.doc> Janice Rogers, General Manager Friends of Point Pelee "Our Point is Pelee" www.friendsofpointpelee.com 519-326-6173 "Like" us on Facebook _______________________________________________ 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/
