~ The Visual Adventure ~: Birding Excursion 21-22 May 2011

Chestnut-sided Warbler (Dendroica pensylvanica)

What a most fabulous weekend! We wanted birds, and we definitely got them.

We spent the weekend down at Prince Edward County and Presqu'ile Provincial Park – Ontario, Canada.

11 birders and photographers, extremely enthusiastic with the beautiful weather Saturday morning, left Ottawa 6am, returning Sunday evening with a trip list of 137 species of birds.

Highlights from the weekend included Northern Mockingbird, Orange-crowned Warbler, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Orchard Oriole, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Wimbrel, Brant and Blue-winged Warbler.

Although there wasn’t a great diversity of warblers, birds were everywhere, often in good numbers.

I got the total of 6 lifers, including Black Tern flying over the car on the way home Sunday afternoon.

Dunlin - Calidris alpina

Saturday:

American Crow

American Goldfinch

American Redstart

American Robin

Baltimore Oriole

Bank Swallow (Sand Martin)

Barn Swallow

Bay-breasted Warbler

Black & White Warbler

Blackburnian Warbler

Black-capped Chickadee

Black-crowned Night Heron

Blackpoll Warbler

Black-throated Blue Warbler

Black-throated Green Warbler

Blue Jay

Blue-grey Gnatcatcher

Blue-winged teal

Bobolink

Brant

Broad-winged Hawk

Brown Thrasher

Brown-headed Cowbird

Canada Goose

Canada Warbler

Caspian Tern

Cedar Waxwing

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Chimney Swift

Chipping Sparrow

Cliff Swallow

Common Grackle

Common Loon

Common Moorhen

Common Raven

Common Tern

Common Yellowthroat

Double-crested Cormorant

Downy Woodpecker

Eastern Kingbird

Eastern Meadowlark

Eastern Phoebe

Eastern Towhee

Eastern Wood-Pewee

European Starling

Field Sparrow

Great Blue Heron

Great-crested Flycatcher

Green Heron

Grey Catbird

Herring Gull

House Finch

House Sparrow

House Wren

Killdeer

Least Flycatcher

Least Sandpiper

Lesser Yellowlegs

Longtailed Duck

Magnolia Warbler

Mallard

Marsh Wren

Merlin

Mourning Dove

Mute Swan

Nashville Warbler

Northern Cardinal

Northern Flicker

Northern Harrier

Northern Mockingbird

Northern Parula

Orange-crowned Warbler

Olive-sided Flycatcher

Orchard Oriole

Osprey

Ovenbird

Philadelphia Vireo

Pied-billed Grebe

Pileated Woodpecker

Purple Finch

Purple Martin

Red-breasted Merganser

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Red-eyed Vireo

Red-tailed Hawk

Red-winged Blackbird

Ring-billed Gull

Rock Pigeon

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Rough-winged Swallow

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Savanna Sparrow

Scarlet Tanager

Song Sparrow

Spotted Sandpiper

Tennessee Warbler

Tree Swallow

Turkey Vulture

Warbling Vireo

White-breasted Nuthatch

White-crowned Sparrow
White-rumped Sandpiper

White-throated Sparrow

White-winged Scoter

Wild Turkey

Wood Duck

Wood Thrush

Yellow Warbler

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Eastern Wood-pewee - Contopus virens

Barn Swallow, Hirundo rustica - Photo courtesy Heather Pickard

Black-crowned Night Heron, Nycticorax nycticorax - Photo courtesy Roger Cobbledick

Purple Finch, Carpodacus purpureus - Photo courtesy Tony Beck

Blue-winged Warbler - Vermivora cyanoptera

Sunday:

American Bittern

Alder Flycatcher