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Birding Reports => Southern Ontario Reports => Topic started by: Leslie Kinrys on May 14, 2008, 10:28:26 PM

Title: Pelee May 11-13
Post by: Leslie Kinrys on May 14, 2008, 10:28:26 PM
My five friends and I do an annual Mother's Day trip to Pelee.  There were birds that we missed this year but there were also some good sightings.  We had a total of 103 species over the three days.

We found 21 warblers.  The highlights included:
 - a male Cerulean warbler, which was at eye level and hung around for a long time
 - a Louisiana Waterthrush
 - a female Hooded warbler, which was our last bird of the trip
 - Blackpoll and Tennessee warblers

Other notables:
 - 5 Wild Turkeys, one of which ran in front of our car
 - a pair of Wood Ducks in a tree
 - a Black Vulture feeding on the beach
 - a Trumpeter Swan in one of the irrigation canals near the onion fields
 - a pair of Rusty Blackbirds
 - a Red-Headed Woodpecker

I heard the Sandhill Cranes, but unfortunately I didn't see them.