Good evening folks.
Just got back from a long day in the Carden Alvar and area and as usual when we go up there we did quite well and saw and heard lots of birds. It started out coolish with a 1 degree temperature but warmed up nicely later in the day.
Below is a partial list of birds that Ian Cannell, Margaret Liubavicius and I found.
Pied-billed Grebes, Trumpeter Swan, Cackling Goose, Green-winged and Blue-winged Teal, Green Heron, American Bitterns, Ospreys on nests, Bald Eagle, Ruffed Grouse, Wild Turkeys, 7 Virgina Rails, 4 Soras, Moorhens, Coot, 4 Sandhill Cranes, Woodcocks, 20+ Snipes, 20+ Upland Sandpipers, 20+ Greater and 10+ Lesser Yellowlegs, Common Loons, Kingfishers, Sapsucker, 3 Pileated Woodpeckers ( 1 on the ground right beside the road just inside the fence ), Flickers, Alder Flycatchers, Least Flycatcher, Phoebes, Great Crested Flycatchers, E. Kingbird, Ravens, Warbling Vireo, 2 Loggerhead Shrikes ( 1 in a new place for us ), 29 E. Bluebirds, Hermit Thrush, 30+ Thrashers, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Brown Creeper, House Wren, Rough-winged Swallow, Purple Finches, Nashville, Yellow, Magnolia, Yellow-rumped, 4 Pine and Palm Warblers, Ovenbird, N. Waterthrush, Swamp, White-throated, White-crowned, Grasshopper, Chipping, Field, and Vesper Sparrows, 10+ E. Towhees, 30+ Meadowlarks and Rusty Blackbirds.
Not a bad haul.
Directions:-
CARDEN ALVAR INCLUDING WYLIE ROAD / THE SEDGE WREN MARSH / PROSPECT ROAD
Wylie Road is north of Kirkfield in Victoria County and Kirkfield itself is on County Road 48 east of Highway 12 and well north of Whitby and about 130 km from Toronto if you follow the roads and not a Crow.
From the centre of Kirkfield go north on County Road 6 passing under the Lift Lock on the Trent Canal and drive about 2
