Always An Adventure was hired by Road Scholar Canada/Routes to Learning to guide two back-to-back trips to Point Pelee for spring migration 2012. Besides Point Pelee, Ontario's Birding Hot Spot, we made stops at Long Point and Rondeau Provincial Parks. Each tour lasted 5 days and occurred during the peak of spring migration. Here is the entry for trip #1. Total trip list contains both seen and heard.
Tufted Titmouse
Group at Long Point
Lush green scenery at Long Point
Beautiful wetlands at Long Point
Marsh Wren
Group birding at Rondeau Provincial Park
TOUR I:7-12 May 2012
The group came together at the Holiday Inn Select in Windsor. It was an enthusiastic bunch containing mostly guests from across the border, USA, but also a couple of Canadians.
The first full day of birding, we spent in the Long Point area. Highlights were Hooded Warbler, Northern Parula, Magnolia Warbler, Cape May Warbler and Orchard Oriole.
At Rondeau, Nina Stavlund did a victory dance at the Visitors Center bird feeder when a Tufted Titmouse came in and became her only life bird of the trip. Other highlights of the day were Virginia Rail, Red-headed Woodpecker, Marsh Wren, Rose-breasted Grosbeak and Black-throated Blue Warbler.
The next morning brought us to Comber and Stony Point. Here we had good looks at Indigo Bunting, Magnolia Warbler and Black-throated Green Warbler. After checking into the hotel we went for a hike on the Point Pelee Marsh Boardwalk. Here we had Black Tern, Common Gallinule and a young male Orchard Oriole. We ended the afternoon at Hillman Marsh, where we had a Marbled Godwit.
We started early into Point Pelee where things were generally slow but steady. We had many cooperative song birds such as Blue-winged Warbler, Bay-breasted Warbler and Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.
The top highlights from Point Pelee included a female Prothonotary Warbler so oblivious of our presence, she gathered nest material right at our feet! In addition we had two White-eyed Vireos, one of them singing.
Our total trip-list came to 139 species of birds.
Birder galore at Hillman's Marsh
Marsh Boardwalk at Point Pelee
Female Prothonotary Warbler at Point Pelee
White-eyed Vireo at Point Pelee
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
| ANSERIFORMES: Anatidae | |
| Canada Goose | Branta canadensis |
| Mute Swan | Cygnus olor |
| Wood Duck | Aix sponsa |
| Gadwall | Anas strepera |
| American Wigeon | Anas americana |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos |
| Blue-winged Teal | Anas discors |
| Northern Shoveler | Anas clypeata |
| Green-winged Teal | Anas crecca |
| Ring-necked Duck | Aythya collaris |
| Lesser Scaup | Aythya affinis |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Mergus serrator |
| GALLIFORMES: Phasianidae | |
| Ruffed Grouse | Bonasa umbellus |
| Wild Turkey | Meleagris gallopavo |
| SULIFORMES: Phalacrocoracidae | |
| Double-crested Cormorant | Phalacrocorax auritus |
| PELECANIFORMES: Ardeidae | |
| Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias |
| Green Heron | Butorides virescens |
| ACCIPITRIFORMES: Cathartidae | |
| Turkey Vulture | Cathartes aura |
| ACCIPITRIFORMES: Pandionidae | |
| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus |
| ACCIPITRIFORMES: Accipitridae | |
| Bald Eagle | Haliaeetus leucocephalus |
| Northern Harrier | Circus cyaneus |
| Cooper's Hawk | Accipiter cooperii |
| Broad-winged Hawk | Buteo platypterus |
| Red-tailed Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis |
| FALCONIFORMES: Falconidae | |
| Merlin | Falco columbarius |
| GRUIFORMES: Rallidae | |
| Virginia Rail | Rallus limicola |
| Common Moorhen | Gallinula galeata |
| GRUIFORMES: Gruidae | |
| Sandhill Crane | Grus canadensis |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Charadriidae | |
| Black-bellied Plover | Pluvialis squatarola |
| Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Scolopacidae | |
| Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes |
| Marbled Godwit | Limosa fedoa |
| Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus griseus |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Laridae | |
| Bonaparte's Gull | Chroicocephalus philadelphia |
| Ring-billed Gull | Larus delawarensis |
| Herring Gull | Larus argentatus |
| Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia |
| Black Tern | Chlidonias niger |
| Forster's Tern | Sterna forsteri |
| COLUMBIFORMES: Columbidae | |
| Rock Pigeon | Columba livia |
| Mourning Dove | Zenaida macroura |
| CUCULIFORMES: Cuculidae | |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus americanus |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus erythropthalmus |
| STRIGIFORMES: Strigidae | |
| Eastern Screech-Owl | Megascops asio |
| APODIFORMES: Apodidae | |
| Chimney Swift | Chaetura pelagica |
| APODIFORMES: Trochilidae | |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Archilochus colubris |
| CORACIIFORMES: Alcedinidae | |
| Belted Kingfisher | Megaceryle alcyon |
| PICIFORMES: Picidae | |
| Red-headed Woodpecker | Melanerpes erythrocephalus |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | Melanerpes carolinus |
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Sphyrapicus varius |
| Downy Woodpecker | Picoides pubescens |
| Hairy Woodpecker | Picoides villosus |
| Northern Flicker | Colaptes auratus |
| PASSERIFORMES: Tyrannidae | |
| Eastern Wood-Pewee | Contopus virens |
| Willow Flycatcher | Empidonax traillii |
| Least Flycatcher | Empidonax minimus |
| Eastern Phoebe | Sayornis phoebe |
| Great Crested Flycatcher | Myiarchus crinitus |
| Eastern Kingbird | Tyrannus tyrannus |
| PASSERIFORMES: Vireonidae | |
| White-eyed Vireo | Vireo griseus |
| Yellow-throated Vireo | Vireo flavifrons |
| Blue-headed Vireo | Vireo solitarius |
| Warbling Vireo | Vireo gilvus |
| Red-eyed Vireo | Vireo olivaceus |
| PASSERIFORMES: Corvidae | |
| Blue Jay | Cyanocitta cristata |
| American Crow | Corvus brachyrhynchos |
| PASSERIFORMES: Alaudidae | |
| Horned Lark | Eremophila alpestris |
| PASSERIFORMES: Hirundinidae | |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Stelgidopteryx serripennis |
| Purple Martin | Progne subis |
| Tree Swallow | Tachycineta bicolor |
| Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica |
| Cliff Swallow | Petrochelidon pyrrhonota |
| PASSERIFORMES: Paridae | |
| Black-capped Chickadee | Poecile atricapillus |
| Boreal Chickadee | Poecile hudsonicus |
| Tufted Titmouse | Baeolophus bicolor |
| PASSERIFORMES: Sittidae | |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | Sitta carolinensis |
| PASSERIFORMES: Troglodytidae | |
| Carolina Wren | Thryothorus ludovicianus |
| House Wren | Troglodytes aedon |
| Marsh Wren | Cistothorus palustris |
| PASSERIFORMES: Polioptilidae | |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Polioptila caerulea |
| PASSERIFORMES: Regulidae | |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Regulus calendula |
| PASSERIFORMES: Turdidae | |
| Eastern Bluebird | Sialia sialis |
| Veery | Catharus fuscescens |
| Swainson's Thrush | Catharus ustulatus |
| Wood Thrush | Hylocichla mustelina |
| American Robin | Turdus migratorius |
| PASSERIFORMES: Mimidae | |
| Gray Catbird | Dumetella carolinensis |
| Brown Thrasher | Toxostoma rufum |
| PASSERIFORMES: Sturnidae | |
| European Starling | Sturnus vulgaris |
| PASSERIFORMES: Bombycillidae | |
| Cedar Waxwing | Bombycilla cedrorum |
| PASSERIFORMES: Parulidae | |
| Ovenbird | Seiurus aurocapilla |
| Northern Waterthrush | Parkesia noveboracensis |
| Blue-winged Warbler | Vermivora cyanoptera |
| Black-and-white Warbler | Mniotilta varia |
| Prothonotary Warbler | Protonotaria citrea |
| Tennessee Warbler | Oreothlypis peregrina |
| Nashville Warbler | Oreothlypis ruficapilla |
| Common Yellowthroat | Geothlypis trichas |
| Hooded Warbler | Setophaga citrina |
| American Redstart | Setophaga ruticilla |
| Cape May Warbler | Setophaga tigrina |
| Cerulean Warbler | Setophaga cerulea |
| Northern Parula | Setophaga americana |
| Magnolia Warbler | Setophaga magnolia |
| Bay-breasted Warbler | Setophaga castanea |
| Blackburnian Warbler | Setophaga fusca |
| Yellow Warbler | Setophaga petechia |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler | Setophaga pensylvanica |
| Black-throated Blue Warbler | Setophaga caerulescens |
| Palm Warbler | Setophaga palmarum |
| Pine Warbler | Setophaga pinus |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | Setophaga coronata |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | Setophaga virens |
| Wilson's Warbler | Cardellina pusilla |
| PASSERIFORMES: Emberizidae | |
| Eastern Towhee | Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
| Chipping Sparrow | Spizella passerina |
| Field Sparrow | Spizella pusilla |
| Song Sparrow | Melospiza melodia |
| Lincoln's Sparrow | Melospiza lincolnii |
| Swamp Sparrow | Melospiza georgiana |
| White-throated Sparrow | Zonotrichia albicollis |
| White-crowned Sparrow | Zonotrichia leucophrys |
| Dark-eyed Junco | Junco hyemalis |
| PASSERIFORMES: Cardinalidae | |
| Scarlet Tanager | Piranga olivacea |
| Northern Cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | Pheucticus ludovicianus |
| Indigo Bunting | Passerina cyanea |
| PASSERIFORMES: Icteridae | |
| Bobolink | Dolichonyx oryzivorus |
| Red-winged Blackbird | Agelaius phoeniceus |
| Eastern Meadowlark | Sturnella magna |
| Western Meadowlark | Sturnella neglecta |
| Common Grackle | Quiscalus quiscula |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | Molothrus ater |
| Orchard Oriole | Icterus spurius |
| Baltimore Oriole | Icterus galbula |
| PASSERIFORMES: Fringillidae | |
| House Finch | Carpodacus mexicanus |
| American Goldfinch | Spinus tristis |
| PASSERIFORMES: Passeridae | |
| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus |
Big Creek, Long Point
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