Point Pelee, Ontario 3/05/26
My first day's birding since arriving in Canada. Staying at Kingsville, it is half an hour's drive to the famed migration site of Point Pelee. I arrived at 7:15 to blue skies and a brisk NW wind, far from ideal conditions as less likely to cause a fall of migrating birds. However, it was an opportunity to get to know the area which is a long peninsula stretching out into Lake Erie. After parking near the visitor centre I concentrated on a couple of nearby trails, including the Tilden Woods. Both White-throated and White-crowned Sparrows were near the parking lot as were Red-winged Blackbirds, though it soon became apparent that the latter were just about everywhere, the commonest bird today. Warblers were a bit thin though Yellow was most visible, followed by several each of Yellow-rumped and Black and White, plus singles of Northern Waterthrush, Common Yellowthroat and Palm Warbler. Downy Woodpecker gave close views and have a call very similar to our own Lesser Spotted Woodp...