Birding Trips

Canada: 15 Aug-3 Sep 2010

species list  bold-lifer, red-scarce, CAPITALS=RARE

key-scarce; seen on only a few days
rare; sene just one or two days
  1. Red-tailed Hawk-15 Aug 2010
  2. House Sparrow
  3. Starling
  4. Feral Pigeon
  5. Ring-billed Gull
  6. Purple Martin
  7. American Crow
  8. Mourning Dove
  9. Great Blue Heron
  10. Red-winged Blackbird
  11. American Kestrel
  12. Barn Swallow
  13. CHIMNEY SWFIT
  14. Eastern Phoebe
  15. Caspian Tern
  16. Black-capped Chickadee
  17. Chipping Sparrow
  18. Mute Swan
  19. Tree Swallow
  20. Wood Duck
  21. Canada Goose
  22. Night Heron
  23. Common Grackle
  24. INDIGO BUNTING-16 AUG
  25. Blue Jay
  26. American Goldfinch
  27. CLIFF SWALLOW
  28. Song Sparrow
  29. American Herring Gull
  30. Osprey
  31. Bonaparte's Gull
  32. Turkey Vulture
  33. Double-crested Cormorant
  34. Chestnut-sided Warbler
  35. Downy Woodpecker
  36. Traill's Flycatcher
  37. Pileated Woodpecker-17 Aug
  38. Raven
  39. Northern Flicker
  40. Red-breasted Nuthatch
  41. Gray Catbird
  42. MERLIN
  43. RED-SHOULDERED HAWK
  44. Common Yellowthroat
  45. WHITE-THROATED SPARROW
  46. Eastern Wood Pewee
  47. Black and White Warbler-18 Aug
  48. Black Duck
  49. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker-19 Aug
  50. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
  51. Veery
  52. Red-eyed Vireo
  53. Black-throated Blue Warbler
  54. BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER
  55. BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER
  56. American Redstart
  57. WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH
  58. Hairy Woodpecker
  59. Hermit Thrush
  60. BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO
  61. Common Loon
  62. Broad-winged Hawk
  63. Belted Kingfisher-20 Aug
  64. Solitary Sandpiper-21 Aug
  65. GREEN HERON
  66. AMERICAN BITTERN
  67. Least Sandpiper
  68. Semipalmated Sandpiper
  69. Semipalmated Plover
  70. Wilson's Snipe
  71. Killdeer
  72. Common Nighthawk-22 Aug
  73. Peregrine-23 Aug
  74. Eastern Kingbird-24 Aug
  75. Bay-breasted Warbler
  76. PIED-BILLED GREBE
  77. Brown Creeper
  78. GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET
  79. Magnolia Warbler
  80. Nashville Warbler
  81. YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER
  82. RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET
  83. WINTER WREN
  84. Tenessee Warbler-27 Aug
  85. Wilson's Warbler
  86. SCARLET TANAGER
  87. SPOTTED SANDPIPER
  88. NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH
  89. House Finch-28 Aug
  90. Northern Cardinal-29 Aug
  91. Baltimore Oriole
  92. Least Flycatcher
  93. CANADA WARBLER
  94. NORTHERN PARULA
  95. SANDHILL CRANE
  96. Swainson's Thrush-30 Aug
  97. OVENBIRD
  98. Blackpoll Warbler
  99. Cape May Warbler
  100. Bobolink
  101. GREATER YELLOWLEGS
  102. SORA
  103. YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER
  104. Northern Harrier
  105. Warbling Vireo
  106. BALD EAGLE
  107. COMMON TERN
  108. FORSTER'S TERN
  109. SANDERLING
  110. COOPER'S HAWK
  111. SHARP-SHINNED HAWK-31 Aug
  112. MOURNING WARBLER
  113. BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER
  114. HOUSE WREN
  115. WOOD THRUSH
  116. AMERICAN WOODCOCK-1 Sep
  117. BLUE-WINGED TEAL
  118. GREAT EGRET
  119. SWAMP SPARROW
  120. MARSH WREN
  121. YELLOW WARBLER-2 Sep
  122. BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD
  123. LESSER YELLOWLEGS
  124. BAIRD'S SANDPIPER
  125. WILSON'S PHALAROPE
  126. BANK SWALLOW
  127. GREEN-WINGED TEAL
Highlights: seeing hundreds of warblers and other birds in the hand at Long Point Bird Observatory, and banding some myself, seeing Black Bears in Algonquin. I saw 98 lifers and 126 species overall (7/9 of all the species I saw were lifers)
Locations visited: Quebec; Mt Owls Head. Ontario; Long Point Bird Observatory, Toronto, Algonquin PP, Lake Ontario, Niagara Falls, Presquile PP, Lake Joseph& Lake Portage.
Other birders/friends on trip; Mum and Dad, David, Seamus and Mary Curson, Kate McElderry, Dave, Katie and James Beadle.
Favourite Bird: Black-throated Blue warbler. or maybe Common Nighthawk. or Ruby-throated Hummingbird. the list is endless...
Favourite other wildlife: Toss up between Raccoon, Chipmunk and Black Bear, but the bear just gets it
Favourite location: For birds, Old Cut, LPBO. For scenery and company, Lake Joseph, N of Toronto.
Photos: Click to enlarge
doing things besides birding

I've almost concealred the fact this is
actually a rubbish dump

no hyperbole does justice
to seeing a Black-throated
Blue Warbler in the hand
 
look beyond the gull. That's Niagara.
And in the distance, a gateway to hell.
America.

a leopard frog at Long Point




A Black-throated Blue
Warbler in the hand is
pretty cool. A Sora is better

dad holding a yankee woodcock

Sharp-shinned Hawk
in the hand

 


 
Anglesey: 31 May-2 June 2010
normal-common bird
bold-scarce
bold and underlined-rare (for me)
bold, underlined and italic-lifer
  1. Greylag Goose
  2. Canada Goose
  3. Shelduck
  4. Mallard
  5. Tufted Duck
  6. Red-breasted Merganser
  7. Pheasant
  8. Fulmar
  9. Gannet
  10. Cormorant
  11. Shag
  12. Little Egret
  13. Grey Heron
  14. Red Kite
  15. Sparrowhawk
  16. Buzzard
  17. Kestrel
  18. Peregrine
  19. Moorhen
  20. Oystercatcher
  21. Ringed Plover
  22. Dunlin
  23. Curlew
  24. Redshank
  25. Common Sandpiper
  26. Black-headed Gull
  27. Common Gull
  28. Herring Gull
  29. Greater Blackback
  30. Lesser Blackback
  31. Kittiwake
  32. Sandwich Tern
  33. Common Tern
  34. Arctic Tern
  35. Guillemot
  36. Razorbill
  37. Puffin
  38. Black Guillemot
  39. Feral Pigeon
  40. Woodpigeon
  41. Collared Dove
  42. Cuckoo
  43. Swift
  44. Great Spotted Woodpecker
  45. Green Woodpecker
  46. Skylark
  47. Swallow
  48. House Martin
  49. Meadow Pipit
  50. Rock Pipit
  51. Grey Wagtail
  52. Pied Wagtail
  53. Wren
  54. Dunnock
  55. Robin
  56. Redstart
  57. Stonechat
  58. Wheatear
  59. Blackbird
  60. Song Thrush
  61. Sedge Warbler
  62. Lesser Whitethroat
  63. Whitethroat
  64. Blackcap
  65. Willow Warbler
  66. Wood Warbler
  67. Chiffchaff
  68. Goldcrest
  69. Pied Flycatcher
  70. Long-tailed Tit
  71. Blue Tit
  72. Great Tit
  73. Coal Tit
  74. Marsh Tit
  75. Nuthatch
  76. Treecreeper
  77. Jay
  78. Magpie
  79. Jackdaw
  80. Chough
  81. Rook
  82. Raven
  83. Starling
  84. House Sparrow
  85. Chaffinch
  86. Greenfinch
  87. Goldfinch
  88. Siskin
  89. Linnet
  90. Bullfinch
  91. Yellowhammer
  92. Reed Bunting
Highlights: two lifers; one was long overdue (Pied Flycatcher) and one was just a fantastic bird (Chough). In the woodland of Aber Falls I got great views of Wood Warbler and Redstarts, plus a wealth of other commoner songbirds. We visited two seabird colonies, South Stack RSPB and Cemlyn Bay. At South Stack we got great views of Puffin, Guillemot, Razorbill, Kittiwake, Shag and Chough. At Cemlyn Bay we saw Common, Sandwich and Arctic Terns, Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Chough and Red-breasted Merganser. Black Guillemot was seen at a quiet location on the NE of Anglesey.
Locations: Cemlyn Bay, South Stack, Aber Falls
Other participants: Dad (Jon Curson)
Favourite bird: Chough, though the Wood Warblers were pretty snazzy
Favourite other wildlife: the gnarled Oak Trees of Aber Falls 
photos: click to enlarge

Black Guillemot, undisclosed



terns at Cemlyn Bay


Cemlyn Bay, click to enlarge.
the view frm South Stack out towards mainland Wales


the view from the cliffs at South Stack

auks on South Stack
Guillemots on South Stack

A Chough at South Stack



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