WPBO

John and I headed over to the point today. Good migration with N winds and a cold front, but no rarities as we'd hoped. I added two birds to the year list, Surf Scoter and Black Scoter. Some numbers are below.

Keep in mind that a lot of our waterbirds were duck sp., so the numbers are a bit higher than what's shown.

Canada Goose - 1000+
American Wigeon - 1
Mallard - 50+
Green-winged Teal - 85+
Greater Scaup - 100+
Lesser Scaup - 100+
Surf Scoter - 120+
White-winged Scoter - 350+
Black Scoter - 7
Common Merganser - 50+
Red-breasted Merganser - 200+
Red-throated Loon - 3
Common Loon - 200+
Horned Grebe - 1
Red-necked Grebe - 30+
Double-crested Cormorant - 40+
Great Blue Heron - 1
Turkey Vulture - 3
Bald Eagle - 5
Red-tailed Hawk - 2
Merlin - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1
Sandhill Crane - 2
Black-bellied Plover - 1
American Golden-Plover - 3
Sanderling - 28
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Common Tern - 7
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 6
Hairy Woodpecker - 3
Northern Flicker - 5
Pileated Woodpecker - 1
Blue Jay - 100+
American Crow
Common Raven
Horned Lark - 30+
Black-capped Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1
White-breasted Nuthatch - 2
Brown Creeper - 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2
Hermit Thrush - 1
American Robin - 40+
Gray Catbird - 2
European Starling
American Pipit - 20+
Cedar Waxwing - 20+
Orange-crowned Warbler - 2
Nashville Warbler - 20+
Northern Parula - 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 20+
Black-throated Green Warbler - 4
Palm Warbler - 2
American Redstart - 1
Chipping Sparrow - 2
Savannah Sparrow - 10+
Song Sparrow - 5+
Swamp Sparrow - 2
White-throated Sparrow - 20+
White-crowned Sparrow - 40+
Dark-eyed Junco - 1
Lapland Longspur - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 10+
Common Grackle - 50+
Purple Finch - 10+
Pine Siskin - 50+
American Goldfinch - 10+

Number of Species: 72

MB trip report

My MB trip report is finally up on my other site - check it out if you get a chance.

The other day I heard some kinglets in the backyard. When I checked them out, I was treated to a rare sight (for my yard at least) of both Ruby- and Golden-crowned Kinglets in the same binoc view in the trees! Neither were new for my yard list, but both were new for the yard this year.

Birding this weekend - CARW!

I spent most of this weekend out birding or sleeping instead of working on school projects (as I probably should have been...). The highlight by far was a Carolina Wren just across the river in the other Sault. We got good looks and heard it singing. A nice bonus - #266 for my SSM list. Other than that, I added Red-throated Loon, White-winged Scoter, and American Golden-Plover at WPBO today, bringing me up to 220 for the Sault this year...only 19 more to go to beat last year :P. Some other nice birds were 15 species of warblers including Blackpoll, Wilson's, Orange-crowned and Parula, Black-backed Woodpecker, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, and Peregrine Falcon among a total of 95 species for the weekend.

Some other Pics

I forgot to post the link to our other site, which I have updated with some of my better photos. http://www.freewebs.com/bellphotos is the link, ignore the home page and click the photos tab! My photos are in the best of DB gallery.

WPBO

I went to WPBO on September 1, should have posted this earlier. It was a pretty slow day, but still managed 50 species and 3 new for the SSM year being Sanderling, Baird's Sandpiper, and Black-backed Woodpecker. There were also some good numbers of warblers around, nothing too rare though.

Sanderling at the Point

Baird's Sandpiper