Bruce Birding Club Outing- August 26/09

The most notable bird seen was the Eared Grebe found at Grand Bend Lagoons.
Locations visited

  1. on route
  2. Exeter Lagoons
  3. Grand Bend Lagoons
  4. Kettle Point area

Species plus area seen in

  • Pied-billed Grebe 2
  • Eared Grebe 3
  • Double-crested Cormorant 2,3
  • Great Blue Heron 1,2
  • Black-crowned Night-Heron 3
  • Mute Swan 2,4
  • Canada Goose 1,2
  • Wood Duck 2,3- Mallard 2,3
  • American Black Duck 2
  • American Wigeon 3
  • Northern Shoveler 2
  • Blue-winged Teal 3
  • Ruddy Duck 2
  • Turkey Vulture 1
  • Northern Harrier 3
  • Red-tailed Hawk 1,3
  • American Kestrel 1
  • Sora 2
  • Semipalmated Plover 2,3
  • Killdeer 2,3
  • Greater Yellowlegs 3
  • Lesser Yellowlegs 2,3
  • Spotted Sandpiper 2
  • Pectoral Sandpiper 3
  • Baird’s Sandpiper 3
  • Semipalmated Sandpiper 3
  • Least Sandpiper 3
  • Bonaparte’s Gull 3
  • Ring-billed Gull 1
  • Herring Gull 4
  • Mourning Dove 1
  • Rock Pigeon 1
  • Chimney Swift 2
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
  • Belted Kingfisher 3
  • Eastern Kingbird 2
  • Blue Jay 2
  • American Crow 1
  • Purple Martin 3
  • N Rough-winged Swallow
  • Bank Swallow 2
  • Tree Swallow
  • Cliff Swallow 2
  • Barn Swallow 1, 3
  • European Starling 1
  • Cedar Waxwing 3
  • Northern Cardinal 1
  • Song Sparrow 3
  • Common Grackle
  • American Goldfinch 1,2,3
  • House Sparrow 1