Pelee on Sept 6

Work gave me about 3-4 hours late on the 6th to putter around Point Pelee. In about 2.5 hours inside the park, I had the following birds:



Point Pelee National Park, Essex, CA-ON
Sep 6, 2011
Protocol: Incidental
80 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose X
Wood Duck X
Mallard X
Wild Turkey X
Horned Grebe 6
Double-crested Cormorant X
Great Blue Heron X
Great Egret X
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
Turkey Vulture X
Broad-winged Hawk 1
Killdeer X
Spotted Sandpiper X
Sanderling X
Bonaparte's Gull X
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Caspian Tern X
Mourning Dove X
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Chimney Swift 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird X
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker X
Northern Flicker X
Eastern Wood-Pewee 18
Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill's) 2
Least Flycatcher 2
Eastern Phoebe 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 3
Eastern Kingbird 5
Warbling Vireo 1
Philadelphia Vireo 5
Red-eyed Vireo 12
Blue Jay X
American Crow X
Purple Martin X
Tree Swallow X
Bank Swallow X
Barn Swallow X
Cliff Swallow X
Black-capped Chickadee X
Carolina Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 40Gray-cheeked Thrush 1
Swainson's Thrush 12
Veery 1

American Robin X
Gray Catbird 4
European Starling X
Cedar Waxwing 50
Ovenbird 2
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 5
Tennessee Warbler 12
Nashville Warbler 7
Common Yellowthroat 6
American Redstart 25
Cape May Warbler 9
Northern Parula 1
Magnolia Warbler 22
Bay-breasted Warbler 3
Blackburnian Warbler 5
Yellow Warbler 10
Chestnut-sided Warbler 7
Blackpoll Warbler 25
Palm Warbler 6
Black-throated Green Warbler 8
Wilson's Warbler 15
Chipping Sparrow X
Field Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow X
Lincoln's Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal X
Bobolink 2
Red-winged Blackbird X
Common Grackle X
Brown-headed Cowbird X
American Goldfinch X

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://ebird.org)










--- Rough totals.. Doesn't include unidentifed warblers/vireos etc... which outnumbered identified birds! (darn leaves)







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Needless to say, it was really hopping with passerine migrants. Really really hopping... Always fun. My first fall visit ever to Pelee (around Sept 15, 2006) - was similar in fashion. A very large drop of migrants + a hawk flight, and I remember I recorded 117 species of birds at the Tip of Pelee alone.







Some quick photos from my quick visit (all taken with the point and shoot.. didn't have the big lens with me!)

And a quick sample of what it was like: 4 warblers in one photo: