Saturday, October 25, 2008

Swans!

I went out east of town for a few hours today, had to pick up some lamb out in Iron Bridge so went to all the usual spots along the way. Echo Bay had 209 Tundra Swans, along with goldeneye, black duck, mallard, bufflehead, etc. On Calabogie Rd. I counted 116 Tundra Swans, and along the road had a flock of pipits and longspurs with some larks. Pumpkin Point itself had 183 more Swans, along with more goldeneye, bufflehead, scaup, a very late Lesser Yellowlegs and a flock of around 30 Bonaparte's Gulls which flew before I could get a good look but didn't appear to have anything else with them. Bruce Mines lagoons were loaded with Bufflehead, also had some gadwall, a female pintail and only a single Wood Duck.

Tundra Swans at Pumpkin Point
Canada Goose - 200+
Tundra Swan - 508
Wood Duck - 1
Gadwall - 12
American Black Duck - 20+
Mallard - 200+
Northern Pintail - 1
Ring-necked Duck - 5+
Greater Scaup - 30+
Lesser Scaup - 30+
Bufflehead - 120+
Common Goldeneye - 40+
Hooded Merganser - 2
Common Merganser - 10+
Red-breasted Merganser - 10+
Wild Turkey - 23
Common Loon - 1
Bald Eagle - 2
Red-tailed Hawk - 2
Rough-legged Hawk - 5 (2 dark morph)
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1
Bonaparte's Gull - 30+
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker - 1
Blue Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Horned Lark - 10+
Black-capped Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2
American Robin
European Starling
American Pipit - 150+
American Tree Sparrow - 50+
White-crowned Sparrow - 10+
Lapland Longspur - 10+
Red-winged Blackbird - 10+
Common Grackle - 30+
Brown-headed Cowbird - 1
Pine Siskin - 20+
American Goldfinch - 10+
Number of Species: 46

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