Event Report by Dave Schaus

Outing Report for the April 30 Bird Migration Trip from Walkerton to Kincardine to Port Elgin

Trip Leader: Dave Schaus, 10 participants–Weather: Sunny, 15 degrees:

Species seen:

• Common Loon

• Pied-billed Grebe 

• Double-crested Cormorant

• Great Blue Heron

• Great Egret

• Canada Goose

• Wood Duck

• Mallard

• Ring-necked Duck

• Greater Scaup

• Bufflehead

• Hooded Merganser

• Common Merganser

• Red-breasted Merganser

• Turkey Vulture

• Northern Harrier

• Broad-winged Hawk

• Red-tailed Hawk

• American Kestrel

• Killdeer

• Greater Yellowlegs

• Lesser Yellowlegs

• Pectoral Sandpiper

• Ring-billed Gull

• Herring Gull

• Caspian Tern

• Mourning Dove

• Rock Pigeon

• Northern Flicker

• Pileated Woodpecker

• Eastern Phoebe

• Blue Jay

• American Crow

• Horned Lark

• Purple Martin

• Tree Swallow

• Barn Swallow

1. •Black-capped Chickadee
2. •Red-breasted Nuthatch
3. •White-breasted Nuthatch
4. •House Wren
5. •Winter Wren
6. •Golden-crowned Kinglet
7. •Ruby-crowned Kinglet
8. •Eastern Bluebird
9. •American Robin
10. •Brown Thrasher
11. •European Starling
12. •Yellow-rumped Warbler
13. •Pine Warbler
14. •Palm Warbler
15. •Northern Cardinal
16. •Chipping Sparrow
17. •Savannah Sparrow
18. •White-throated Sparrow
19. •Song Sparrow
20. •Dark-eyed Junco
21. •Eastern Meadowlark
22. •Brown-headed Cowbird
23. •Red-winged Blackbird
24. •Common Grackle
25. •Purple Finch
26. •House Finch
27. •American Goldfinch
28. •House Sparrow

Total Species = 66