Bird Protection Quebec's -"Summer Series" - Trip #8 Report

It's a wrap! Our 8th season of the Summer Series of Birding wrapped up today in wonderful fashion. 12 birders headed out early this morning to bird four different eastern Ontario sewage lagoon locations; St-Isidore, Casselman, Embrun and St. Albert. 7+ hours of birding...and a lunch break, of course, yielded no less than 64 species of birds. Sunny and warm temperatures, combined with an appreciated breeze throughout the day contributed to a great day of birding. However we just managed to complete our birding just prior to a huge temperature inversion leading to a dramatic, almost hurricane like rain, hail and wind storm.

Each of the four sites provided their share of birds but the Casselman lagoons were by far the most productive for shorebirds. Embrun provided us with a few surprises, namely 3 Red necked Phalaropes, a Redhead and a Ring-necked Duck.

So here we go with today wide variety of birds: Canada Goose 6, Wood Duck 25, American Black Duck 12, Mallard 400+, Blue-winged Teal 75, Northern Shoveler 8, Green-winged Teal 20, Redhead 1, Ring-necked Duck 1, Hooded Merganser 3, Ruddy Duck 15, Pied billed Grebe 5, Great Blue Heron 8, Turkey Vulture 8, Bald Eagle 1, Northern Harrier 3, Sharp-shinned Hawk 1, Broad-winged Hawk 1,,Red-tailed Hawk 1,,Merlin 1, Common Moorhen 25, Black-bellied Plover 1, Semipalmated Plover 3, Killdeer 30, Greater Yellowlegs 3, Lesser Yellowlegs 50, Solitary Sandpiper 3, Spotted Sandpiper 5, Sanderling 3, Semipalmated Sandpiper 6, Least Sandpiper 20, Wilson's Snipe 6, Red-necked Phalarope 3, Ring-billed Gull 12, Herring Gull 1, Rock Pigeon 3, Mourning Dove 45, Northern Flicker 1, Eastern Kingbird 1, Red-eyed Vireo 1, Blue Jay 12, American Crow 10, Common Raven 3, Tree Swallow 40, Bank Swallow 4, Barn Swallow 20, Black-capped Chickadee 12, American Robin 6, European Starling 200+, Cedar Waxwing 6, Nashville Warbler 1, Yellow Warbler 1, Mourning Warbler 1, Common Yellowthroat 2, Chipping Sparrow 3, Song Sparrow 12, Northern Cardinal 2, Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1, Indigo Bunting 2, Red-winged Blackbird 100+, Common Grackle 3, Baltimore Oriole 2, American Goldfinch 20, House Sparrow 6

Bernache du Canada 6, Canard branchu 25, Canard noir 12, Canard colvert 400 +, Sarcelle à ailes bleues 75, Canard souchet 8, Sarcelle à ailes vertes 20, Fuligule à tête rouge 1, Fuligule à collier 1,  Harle couronné 3, Erismature rousse 15, Grèbe à bec bigarré 5, Grand Héron 8, Urubu à tête rouge 8, Pygargue à tête blanche 1, Busard Saint-Martin 3, Épervier brun 1, Petite buse 1, Buse à queue rousse 1, Faucon émerillon 1, Gallinule poule-d'eau 25, Pluvier argenté 1, Pluvier semipalmé 3, Pluvier kildir 30, Grand Chevalier 3, Petit Chevalier 50, Chevalier solitaire 3, Chevalier grivelé 5,,Bécasseau sanderling 3, Bécasseau semipalmé 6, Bécasseau minuscule 20, Bécassine de Wilson 6, Phalarope à bec étroit 3,,Goéland à bec cerclé 12,, Goéland argenté 1, Pigeon biset 3, Tourterelle triste 45, Pic flamboyant 1, Tyran tritri 1, Viréo aux yeux rouges 1, Geai bleu 12, Corneille d'Amérique 10, Grand Corbeau 3, Hirondelle bicolore 40, Hirondelle de rivage 4, Hirondelle rustique 20, Mésange à tête noire 12, Merle d'Amérique 6, Étourneau sansonnet 200 +, Jaseur d'Amérique 6, Paruline à joues grise 1, Paruline jaune 1, Paruline triste 1, Paruline masquée 2, Bruant familier 3, Bruant chanteur 12, Cardinal rouge 2, Cardinal à poitrine rose 1, Passerin indigo 2, Carouge à épaulettes 100 +, Quiscale bronzé 3, Oriole de Baltimore 2, Chardonneret jaune 20, Moineau domestique 6 - Sheldon