Good Day Eh !
Yesterday I accompanied Ian Cannell and Margaret Liubavicius for an outing in the Kirkfield area on a beautiful, slightly cool June day. After the winds at the Bruce Peninsula Sunday it was a pleasure to be able to keep one's hat on yesterday and to dress in near Spring plumage.
For once we didn't arrive in the area in the dark but left a little later and as we drove up Prospect Road we stopped at the main marsh north of Eldon Station Road where we found American Bittern, Least Bitterns, Green Heron, Virginia Rail, Sora and many Marsh Wrens.
From here we headed for Wylie Road where we added more Virginia Rails and Soras, Turkey Vultures, Upland Sandpipers, Wilson's Snipes, Black-billed Cuckoos, Eastern Phoebe, Alder, Least and Great Crested Flycatchers, Common Raven, Red-breasted Nuthatch, House and Sedge Wrens, Eastern Bluebirds, Veerys, Swainson's and Hermit Thrushes, Brown Thrashers, Golden-winged, Nashville and other warblers including Ovenbirds, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Indigo Buntings, Eastern Towhees, Field, Vesper and Grasshopper Sparrows and many Bobolinks and Eastern Meadowlarks.
Some of the other birds we found were Clay-colored Sparrows ( we found 10 Sparrow species ), Loggerhead Shrikes, Purple Finches, Blackburnian and Black-throated Green Warblers, Winter Wren, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Olive-sided Flycatcher, E. Wood-Pewee, Scarlet Tanager, Red-shouldered Hawk, Ospreys, Wild Turkeys, Hooded Merganser, Sandhill Cranes, and Yellow-billed Cuckoo.
Directions:-
CARDEN ALVAR INCLUDING WYLIE ROAD / THE SEDGE WREN MARSH / PROSPECT ROAD ALONG WITH A FEW AREAS SOUTHWEST OF KIRKFIELD
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
