Elliot Lake and Area Baillie Birdathon 2000 - Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Hi Gord
We did not realize that the last entry you had in the Algoma East area was
from Terry Carr in May, so we thought you might like to hear the results of
the Baillie Birdathon we conducted in the Elliot Lake and surrounding area
on May 20th 2000. We sponsored the Friends of Missassagi Park and all
being well we plan to make this an annual event. We were able to record 89
species, not bad for a first try. The following list is the result of our 24
hour effort.
Common Loon, Pied-billed Grebe, Double Breasted Cormorant, American Bittern,
Great Blue Heron, Turkey Vulture, Wood duck, American Black Duck, Mallard,
Blue Winged Teal, Buffle Head, Common Merganser, Northern Harrier, Sharp
shinned Hawk, Broadwinged Hawk, Rough-Legged Hawk, American Kestrel, Ruffed
Grouse, Virginia Rail, Sandhill Crane, Killdeer, Solitary Sandpiper, Common
Snipe, Ring-billed Gull, Herring Gull, Caspian Tern, Rock Dove, Mourning
Dove, Whip-or will, Ruby Throated Humming bird, Belted King-fisher,
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Northern
Flicker, Pileated Woodpecker, Olivesided flycatcher, Alder Flycatcher,
Eastern Phoebe, Great Creasted Fly Catcher, Eastern Kingbird, Red-eyed
Vireo, Blue Jay, American Crow, Northern Raven, Tree Swallow, Barn Swallow,
Black-Capped Chickadee, Red-Breasted Nuthatch, Winter Wren, Golden-crowned
Kinglet, Red crowned Kinglet, Eastern Bluebird, Swainson Thrush, Hermit
Thrush, American Robin, Gray Catbird, Brown Thrasher, American Pipit,
European Starling, Nashville Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Magnolia Warbler,
Black-throated Blue Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Blackburnian
Warbler, Yellow Rumped Warbler, Black & White Warbler, American Restart,
Oven Bird, Scarlet Tanager, Chipping Sparrow, Vesper Sparrow, Savannah
Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Lincoln's Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, White Throated
Sparrow, White Crowned Sparrow, Redwinged Blackbird, Rusty Blackbird,
Brewers Blackbird, Common Grackle, Brown-Headed Cowbird, Purple Finch,
American Goldfinch, Evening Grosbeak.
J.R & Joyce MacKenzie
angusmac@inorth.on.ca
Also thought the following might be of interest. On Monday 31st July, just
north of Elliot Lake at about 2:30 in the afternoon, we saw eleven Turkey
Vultures and two immature Bald Eagles circling overhead just to the right of
Dunlop Lake on on highway 108. We assumed there was a large carcass of some
sort in the bush that was attracting them to the vicinity. We have never
observed that many Turkey Vultures together and have never seen any Eagles
among a group of them prior to this sighting.
