Friday 3 May 2013

Niagara to Grand Rapids: Day 3 & 4

Wednesday brought an end to our stay in Niagara Falls and from there we continued south to Point Pelee. We mostly traveled on Wednesday made a few stops but it was pouring rain most of the day, the only bird of note was a yellow rumped warbler in Chatham were we stopped for a hike. The next day we got up bright and early to explore Pelee. We stopped first at the marsh board walk which was filled with ducks, northern shovler, blue winged teal, wood ducks, and Greater Scaup to name a few. We got here a little too early and there wasn't enough light to get many good photos:


 


Next we took the tram down to the point. I was hoping to find some early migrant warblers but they were few and far between. So I settled for a blue-gray gnat catcher and a northern mocking bird and the abundant ruby crowned kinglets.




We continued to explore the park the rest of the day and found some other interesting birds throughout the park. There were a few Pine warblers here and there but none were co-operative.

House Wren

American Towhees were everywhere

Field Sparrow on the beach

Horned Grebe
Finally at the end of the day I found a Nashville warbler as we were leaving the park.




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