Bruce Birding Club, October 18, 2011


Fourteen people braved dire weather reports to go to the well organized trip planned by two of our club members.  Thank you for their hospitality, coffee and goodies.

In the end we had a pretty good day taking in 62 species of birds.  The highlight of the day was to find a flock of migrating Eastern Bluebirds on Fletcher Road near Allenford that were flitting back and forth from a plowed field and row of trees and shrubs.  Their brilliant  colours seem to shine out loudly against the darkness of the weather and their wet surroundings. Other good sightings were the Horned and Red-necked Grebes and a plethora of Sandhill Cranes.  Migrating winter residents seen today were American Tree Sparrow, Rough- legged Hawk, and Dark-eyed Junco.

The weather was a steady 9 C. with light rain bursts, windy with winds picking up as the day went on with steady rains starting about 3:30 PM.

Lunch in Tim Horton's in Hepworth.

1 - Independent Ponds in Port Elgin
2 - Miramichi and Horseshoe Bay
3 - Liz's house
4 - Southampton Harbour
5 - Southampton
6 - Field Side Road, Allenford

    • Horned Grebe -  3
    • Red-necked Grebe - 4
    • Double-crested Cormorant - 4
    • Great Blue Heron
    • Mute Swan - 3
    • Trumpeter Swan - wetland on Fidlers Green
    • Canada Goose
    • Mallard 1, 2,
    • American Black Duck 1, 2, 3
    • American Green-winged Teal - 1
    • Redhead -3
    • Ring-necked Duck -1
    • Greater Scaup -3
    • Lesser Scaup -3
    • White-winged Scoter -3
    • Bufflehead -1,3
    • Hooded Merganser -1
    • Common Merganser 2,3
    • Red-breasted Merganser -3
    • Turkey Vulture
    • Northern Harrier -2
    • Red-tailed Hawk -6
    • Rough-legged Hawk -6
    • Bald Eagle -1,3
    • Sandhill Crane -6
    • Greater Yellowlegs -2
    • Lesser Yellowlegs -2
    • Dunlin -2
    • Bonaparte's Gull -1,4
    • Ring-billed Gull
    • Herring Gull -4
    • Mourning Dove
    • Rock Pigeon
    • Belted Kingfisher 1,4
    • Downy Woodpecker -6
    • Blue Jay
    • Common Raven -1
    • American Crow
    • Black-capped Chickadee
    • Red-breasted Nuthatch -5
    • White-breasted Nuthatch -6
    • Golden-crowned Kinglet -6
    • Ruby-crowned Kinglet -6
    • Eastern Bluebird -6
    • American Robin
    •  Swainson's Thrush -6
    • Hermit Thrush -6
    • European Starling
    • Yellow-rumped Warbler -6
    • Northern Cardinal - 5
    • American Tree Sparrow -6
    • Savannah Sparrow -6
    • White-throated Sparrow -6
    • White-crowned Sparrow -6
    • Song Sparrow -6
    • Swamp Sparrow -6
    • Dark-eyed Junco -6
    • Red-winged Blackbird -6
    • Common Grackle -6
    • House Finch -5
    • American Goldfinch -5
    • House Sparrow 6