rising@utzoo.uucp (Jim Rising) (05/17/88)
Back from a week-nd at Point Pelee. I got 152 species--not particularly
good. TThe migration is "uneven". Myrtles are still here in pretty good
numbers, but Blackpolls are coming in. I managed only 25 species of
warblers, and didn't get Golden-winged, Parula, Pine, Prairie, Palm (!),
Cerulean, and Mourning of the more-or-less regular ones. There were an
unusually large number of sightings of Yellow-throated Warblers this spring,
and a Blue Grosbeak or two were around (I saw neither). Some of the most
exciting birds were shorebirds. With a little digging you could get
Curlew Sandpiper (coming into breeding plumage) and a breeding Ruff in the
same day. Also Hudsonian Godwits (3), Wilson's Phalarope, and most of
the common species. A lot of stuff is yet to come through.
--Jim Rising
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Name: Jim Rising
Mail: Dept. Zoology, Univ. Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1
UUCP: {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!risingmjm@oliven.olivetti.com (Michael Mammoser) (05/19/88)
In article <1988May16.184907.23146@utzoo.uucp>, rising@utzoo.uucp (Jim Rising) writes: > and didn't get Golden-winged, Parula, Pine, Prairie, Palm (!), ^^^^ You didn't get a Palm Warbler?! Even as a vagrant out here in California they're downright numerous. :-) This does not bode well for warbler migration this year. Either the weather is too nice or the warbler gods are angry. Keep me posted on the spring migration. We don't have that many species of breeding warblers out here and generally have to wait for the winter vagrants for the real excitement. Looking and listing, Mike