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| Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum |
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| Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum |
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| Veery Catharus fuscescens |
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| Veery Catharus fuscescens |
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| Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia |
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| Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana |
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| Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula |
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| Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula |
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| American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla |
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| American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla |
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Yellow Warbler Setophaga petechia
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| House Wren Troglodytes aedon |
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| Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula |
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| Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax |
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| Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius |
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| Canada Goose Branta Canadensis |
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| White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus |
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| European Common Blue Polyommatus icarus |
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| Forest Tent Caterpillar Malacosoma disstria |
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| A fish that sparked much debate - not a Bowfin... |
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| Yuck bubbles |
Reserve Faunique Marguerite-D’Youville, Île Sainte-Bernard, Châteauguay, May 26, 2022
Muggy and buggy at D-ville the other day, and leafy to boot. Feels like the winds are almost out of spring’s sails. All in all, the day felt like a bit of a dream. A hazy daze. I dunno. You had to be there.
After 7 hours of P.M. birding, the day ended with 74 species. That total surprised me, as it felt like more of a 50-species day.
Nine warbler species were logged – many of these species were low-number migrants on the tail end of the bell curve, while with the resident breeding Yellow Warblers and American Redstarts were evident in big numbers.
It was a treat to get excellent looks at species that are usually quite skulky, such as Veery and Brown Thrasher. Brown Thrashers always struck me as a ‘tropical-looking’ bird, if that makes any sense.
A Black-billed Cuckoo was heard, not seen (as is tradition), and Wilson’s Snipes could be heard winnowing at dusk, over the eastern edge of the Grande Digue. What else? I bought a hat. Stop the presses. I wonder if any crazy late-spring provincial rarities will show up in the next week...
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