The Huron Fringe Birding Festival has just finished its sixteenth
year. Here is a compilation and summary of the birds seen at the
festival this year. The festival runs for eight days over 2 four day,
long weekends on May 24 to May 27 and May 30 to June 2, 2013. The
number appearing after the bird species name designates the number of
days the species was seen on our hikes. Please understand that our
hikes cover most of Bruce County and some of the areas where the
species were seen were not covered everyday.
We have about 80 hikes going out during the festival covering many
nature interests. Most of these are bird hikes.
Next year's events are announced on February 1, 2014 and you can
register over the internet. Register early. Some of our hikes fill
quickly. Our orchid hike to Flower Pot Island, a boat trip, was
filled by noon hour on the first registration day and some of our bird
hikes were full after 2 weeks. We keep our hikes small. Twenty for
birding hikes, twelve for wild flower hikes and for some of our hikes
we allow only eight people. Our prices are very low if you take the
weekend packages. We have some very generous corporate sponsors that
enable us to do this.
The Huron Fringe Birding Festival is based out of MacGregor Point
Provincial Park near Port Elgin, Ontarip.
184 species were seen during the festival.
• Common Loon (COLO) -3 days seen
• Pied-billed Grebe (PBGR) -6
• Horned Grebe (HOGR)- 1
• Double-crested Cormorant (DCCO) -8
• American Bittern (AMBI) -3
. Least Bittern (LEBI) -4
• Great Blue Heron (GBHE) -7
• Great Egret (GREG) - 6
• Green Heron (GRHE) -5
• American Coot (AMCO) -5
• Virginia Rail (VIRA) -4
• Sora (SORA) -4
• Ruffed Grouse (RUGR) - 7
• Wild Turkey (WITU) - 7
• Sandhill Crane (SACR) -5
• Black-crowned Night-Heron (BCNH) -1
• Canada Goose -(CANG) - 8
• Wood Duck (WODU) -6
• Mallard (MALL) -8
• Gadwall (GADW) -1
• American Wigeon (AMWI) -1
• Northern Shoveler (NOSH) -2
• Blue-winged Teal (BWTE) -2
• Redhead (REDH) - 1
• Greater Scaup (GRSC) -1
• Lesser Scaup (LESC) - 1
• Ring-necked Duck (RNDU) -2
• White-winged Scoter (WWSC) -1
• Common Goldeneye (COGO) -1
• Hooded Merganser (HOME) -3
• Common Merganser (COME) - 5
• Red-breasted Merganser (RBME) -6
• Ruddy Duck (RUDU) - 2
• Turkey Vulture (TUVU) - 8
• Northern Harrier (NOHA) -3
• Sharp-shinned Hawk (SSHA) - 1
• Cooper's Hawk (COHA)- 1
• Red-shouldered Hawk (RSHA) -1
• Broad-winged Hawk (BWHA) -4
• Red-tailed Hawk (RTHA) -6
• Bald Eagle (BAEA) -5
• Osprey (OSPR -4
• Merlin (MERL) -7
• American Kestrel (AMKE) -2
• Great Horned Owl (GHOW) -2
• Eastern Screech Owl (ESOW) -1
• Common Nighthawk (CONI) -5
• Mourning Dove (MODO) -8
• Rock Pigeon (ROPI) -4
• Black-billed Cuckoo (BBCU) -6
• Black-bellied Plover (BBPL) -2
• Semipalmated Plover (SEPL) -2
• Killdeer (KILL) -7
• Spotted Sandpiper (SPSA) -6
• Upland Sandpiper (UPSA) -3
. Ruddy Turnstone (RUTU) -4
• Dunlin (DUNL) -3
• Semipalmated Sandpiper (SESA) - 2
• Least Sandpiper (LESA) -1
. Long-billed Dowitcher -(LBDO) -1
• American Woodcock (AMWO) - 5
• Wison's Snipe (WISN) - 5
. Wilson's Phalarope (WIPH) -1
• Bonaparte's Gull (BOGU) -1
• Ring-billed Gull (RBGU) -8
• Herring Gull (HEGU) - 8
• Caspian Tern (CATE) -3
• Common Tern (COTE) -5
• Black Tern (BLTE) -3
• Belted Kingfisher (BEKI) -5
• Red-headed Woodpecker (RHWO) -1
• Red-bellied Woodpecker (RBWO) -3
• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (YBSA) -5
• Downy Woodpecker (DOWO) -7
• Hairy Woodpecker (HAWO) - 5
• Northern Flicker (NOFL) -8
• Pileated Woodpecker (PIWO) -5
• Blue Jay (BLJA) - 8
• Common Raven (CORA) - 8
• American Crow (AMCR) - 8
• Chimney Swift (CHSW) - 3
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird (RTHU) - 8
• Purple Martin (PUMA) - 1
• N Rough-winged Swallow (NRWS) - 4
• Bank Swallow (BANS) - 4
• Tree Swallow (TRES) - 8
• Cliff Swallow ( CLSW) - 7
• Barn Swallow (BARS) - 8
• Olive-sided Flycatcher (OSFL) -3
• Eastern Wood-Pewee (EAWP) -6
• Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (YBFL) - 1
• Willow Flycatcher (WIFL) - 3
• Alder Flycatcher ALFL) -4
• Least Flycatcher (LEFL) -8
• Eastern Phoebe (EAPH) - 8
• Great Crested Flycatcher (GCFL) -8
• Eastern Kingbird (EAKI) - 8
• Gray Catbird (GRCA) - 8
• Eastern Bluebird (EABL) - 8
• American Robin (AMRO) - 8
• Veery (VEER)- 7
• Wood Thrush (WOTH) - 7
• Swainson's Thrush (SWTH) - 1
• Gray-cheeked Thrush (GCTH) - 1
• Hermit Thrush (HETH) - 2
• Brown Thrasher (BRTH) - 8
• Cedar Waxwing (CEDW) - 6
• Black-capped Chickadee (BCCH) - 8
. Tufted Titmouse (TUTI) - 1
• Red-breasted Nuthatch (RBNU) - 7
• White-breasted Nuthatch (WBNU) - 2
• Brown Creeper (BRCR) - 3
• Carolina Wren (CARW) - 2
• House Wren (HOWR) - 8
• Winter Wren (WIWR) - 8
• Marsh Wren (MAWR) - 2
• Golden-crowned Kinglet (GCKI) -1
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet (RCKI) -1
• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (BGGN) - 5
• Red-eyed Vireo (REVI) - 8
• Warbling Vireo (WAVI) -8
• Philadelphia Vireo (PHVI) -2
• Yellow-throated Vireo (YTVI) -2
• Blue-headed Vireo (BHVI) -2
. Northern Parula (NOPA) -1
• Blue-winged Warbler (BWWA) -7
• Golden-winged Warbler (GWWA) - 8
• Nashville Warbler (NAWA) - 4
• Yellow Warbler (YWAR) - 8
• Chestnut-sided Warbler (CSWA) - 7
• Magnolia Warbler (MAWA) -6
• Cape May Warbler (CMWA) -1
• Black-throated Blue (BTBW) -5
. Cerulean Warbler (CERW) - 2
• Blackburnian Warbler (BLBW) - 6
• Yellow-rumped Warbler (YRWA) - 7
• Black-throated Green (BTNW) - 8
• Pine Warbler (PIWA)- 4
• Palm Warbler (PAWA) - 5
• Bay-breasted Warbler (BBWA) -3
• Blackpoll Warbler (BLPW) -2
• Black-and-white Warbler (BAWW) - 8
• American Redstart (AMRE) - 8
• Ovenbird (OVEN) - 8
• Northern Waterthrush (NOWA) - 8
• Mourning Warbler (MOWA) - 7
• Common Yellowthroat (COYE) - 8
• Wilson's Warbler (WIWA) - 3
• Canada Warbler (CAWA) - 4
• Hooded Warbler (HOWA) - 1
. Yellow-breasted Chat - 1
• Horned Lark (HOLA) - 5
• American Pipit (AMPI) - 1
• Eastern Towhee (EATO) - 6
• Field Sparrow (FISP) - 7
• Clay-coloured Sparrow (CCSP) - 2
• Chipping Sparrow (CHSP) - 8
• Savannah Sparrow (SAVS) - 8
• Vesper Sparrow (VESP) - 1
• White-throated Sparrow (WTSP) - 8
• White-crowned Sparrow WCSP) - 1
• Grasshopper Sparrow (GRSP) - 2
• Fox Sparrow (FOSP) - 1
• Song Sparrow (SOSP) - 8
• Lincoln's Sparrow (LISP) - 1
• Swamp Sparrow (SWSP) - 8
• House Sparrow (HOSP) -4
• Purple Finch (PUFI) - 4
• House Finch (HOFI) -1
• Red Crossbill - 1
• Pine Siskin (PISI) -4
• American Goldfinch (AMGO) - 8
• Northern Cardinal (NOCA) - 8
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak (RBGR) -8
• Indigo Bunting (INBU) - 8
• Scarlet Tanager (SCTA) - 8
• Baltimore Oriole (BAOR) - 8
• European Starling (EUST) - 8
• Eastern Meadowlark (EAME) -8
• Bobolink (BOBO) - 8
• Brown-headed Cowbird (BHCO) - 8
• Red-winged Blackbird (RWBL) - 8
• Brewer's Blackbird (BRBL) - 3
• Common Grackle (COGR) - 8
Number of species seen - 184
Bruce and Grey Counties are a natural paradise. They contain 48
species of orchids and 50 species of ferns accounting for two thirds
of Ontario's totals. There are at least 78 species of butterflies in
our area. A local expert claims that there are 19 species of warblers
nesting here and perhaps the most nesting birds in Southern Ontario
Take care,
Fred Jazvac,
Southampton, Ontario
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