Visions of Point Pelee - in the cold

Work took me back to SW Ontario today, so it was good enough for another rapid-fire tour of the Pelee birding area to get a quick-fix of migrants... No where near as exciting as my last visit a few days ago - colder and less birds. No Phoebes seen after 7/8 last week! Just waiting for the weather to change. Actually waiting for late April to change.

A short one tonight, some migrants/notable birds that I did see:

Tundra Swan     10
White-winged Scoter     5
Ring-necked Pheasant     2
Common Loon     6  -- my first spring migrants
Pied-billed Grebe     4
Horned Grebe     100 - everywhere at the tip
Double-crested Cormorant     4
Turkey Vulture     X
Bald Eagle     3
Northern Harrier     3
Cooper's Hawk     2
Red-tailed Hawk     3
American Coot     80
Sandhill Crane     2
Bonaparte's Gull     1000
Thayer's Gull     1  (2nd basic - tip)
Iceland Gull     1   (juv - wheatley)
Lesser Black-backed Gull     3  (3 different adults, tip)
Tree Swallow     5  (hillman)
American Pipit     1 (tip)
Eastern Meadowlark     2 (tip)


Some photos:

2nd basic Thayer's at the tip

The ever present RB-mergie. Adult male, young male and female.

4 from a flock(!) of 12 Snipe - feeding like real shorebirds in an open field near Erieau. Cold weather bringing them out?

Dark adult LBB Gull from the tip.

migrant looooons!