Bird Protection Quebec "Field Trip" - Saturday, May 28

I have chosen the destination for next Saturday's "Spontaneous Spring Field


Trip". We will repeat a very successful driving outing from July 24th, 2010,

when we had one of our most productive "Summer Series" outings ever, with a

total of 66 species. We will meet up at the Hudson Inn exploring areas in

St-Lazare and points west out to the Quebec/Ontario border, then heading north,

wrapping up at the Carillon Dam at Pointe-Fortune, Quebec. Here are the

details.



Saturday, May 28, 2011
8:00 AM - A Half-day outing
MEETING PLACE: Hudson Inn parking lot at Exit 17 off of Highway 40.

DRIVING INSTRUCTIONS TO MEETING SPOT: Take the Trans-Canada Highway 40 (direction Ottawa) to Exit 17 - Highway 201 Montee Lavigne / Hudson. Meet in the parking area outside the Hudson Inn complex. We should attempt to carpool from this location.

ITINERARY: From the Hudson Inn, we will drive south on Highway 201 into St-Lazare checking out chemin de Fied & Montee Ste-Angelique, looking particularly for field and grassland birds, etc. We then head west towards the Quebec/Ontario border along ch. Ste-Marie, into Ontario to Lemieux Road & La Grande Montee Road. Here we will be again be looking for grassland birds, including Upland Sandpipers, Bobolinks, Meadowlarks, etc. We will continue north on La Grande Montee to Pointe Fortune and visit the Carillon Dam at Pointe-Fortune, where various gulls, ducks and shorebirds are often seen.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at 450-462-1459. You may reach me by cellphone at 514-637-2141 on Saturday morning. For those who wish to bring along a lunch there are picnic grounds at the dam. We hope to wrap up the trip within the half-day period. - Sheldon