Shari scoping out the Point |
Eventually, we did make it down to the point, finding many Bonaparte's Gulls, Lesser Scaup, Black-bellied Plovers, and such. It was, in a way, like a return to winter. But the real action, we found was along the marsh and in the woods.
It was on the boardwalk that winds through the marsh that we saw a couple of Black Terns having some kind of interaction, positive or negative impossible to say. We've seen Black Terns before, but never in full, dramatic, breeding plumage, and never so well.
Photo: Shari Zirlin |
For our day at Point Pelee, we had 41 species, with 9 of them FOY:
Canada Goose 5
Lesser Scaup 20
Red-breasted Merganser 1
Double-crested Cormorant 5
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Black-bellied Plover 20
Dunlin 1
Bonaparte's Gull 100
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Black Tern 2
Common Tern 10
Mourning Dove 3
Red-headed Woodpecker 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 2
Warbling Vireo 1
Blue Jay 100
Tree Swallow 2
Barn Swallow 20
Carolina Wren 1 Heard
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Hermit Thrush 1
American Robin 4
Ovenbird 1
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 3
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Yellow Warbler 20
Black-throated Green Warbler 2
Chipping Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 1
White-crowned Sparrow 1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 3
Red-winged Blackbird 100
Common Grackle 100
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
Orchard Oriole 1
Baltimore Oriole 5
Lesser Scaup 20
Red-breasted Merganser 1
Double-crested Cormorant 5
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Black-bellied Plover 20
Dunlin 1
Bonaparte's Gull 100
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Black Tern 2
Common Tern 10
Mourning Dove 3
Red-headed Woodpecker 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 2
Warbling Vireo 1
Blue Jay 100
Tree Swallow 2
Barn Swallow 20
Carolina Wren 1 Heard
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Hermit Thrush 1
American Robin 4
Ovenbird 1
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 3
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Yellow Warbler 20
Black-throated Green Warbler 2
Chipping Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 1
White-crowned Sparrow 1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 3
Red-winged Blackbird 100
Common Grackle 100
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
Orchard Oriole 1
Baltimore Oriole 5
Great photos, as always!
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