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So first thing in the mourning yesterday, I went outside briefly and heard a Yellow Warbler (#148) singing, then later in the day heard it again. Then headed to the Lambton Wildlife outing. The outing went quite well! The Port Franks Forested Dunes are quite a nice area!! During our walk, we managed to find an Osprey (#149) fly over fairly low for a fantastic view!! Glad to get that off the list!! Closer to then end of our walk, we heard a calling Sandhill Crane (#150) as well! On our walk back, we met up with a small pocket of birds! Most of which Pine Warblers, one providing an excellent look! Also in the group were a few "Western" Palm Warblers and some Ruby-crowned Kinglets.

Adult Male Pine Warbler

After we finished our walk, my dad and I headed over to "L" Lake for a quick look, got Common Loon, Purple Martin, and a few other swallows.

  Common Loon

After lunch we went to the Tundra Swan fields on Greenway Road. We got a few more species at this location, a single lone Tundra Swan (must be lonely!), many Bonaparte's Gulls, through a scan of the field in the scope, we were able to find 4 Greater Yellowlegs, a single Lesser Yellowlegs (#153), and a group of 35plus Dunlin (#151). Also at this location, heard a singing, and briefly saw a Vesper Sparrow (#152).

Today was the OFO trip to Rondeau PP. Over-all had a pretty good day! I ended with 75sp total for the day, including some new for Ontario years, and a lifer! New birds for year included: Caspian Tern, Blue-headed Vireo, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, and Purple Finch. By the time lunch was upon us, it had already started to rain. And despite checking multiple times, we could not find the Yellow-throated Warblers. 

Soon after lunch, we headed over to the cottage the warblers have been being seen at once more. This time, shortly after we go there, there it was!! A Yellow-throated Warbler!! On the suet feeder no more then 15ft away!! We were able to watch it in bins for some time, and watched it gabbing at a red-breasted nuthatch trying to scare it off! Soon enough, the second one showed itself to us!! This was a very exciting LIFER(#363)(ON#272), and such a beautiful bird! I'm going to have to call it one of my favourites now! It is such a nice bird, the pictures I've seen of them, really don't do them justice. Unfortunatly because of the rain, we could not get pictures of them..

Later on, we went to a few other places, one of them being Erieau in search of the Lark Sparrow, unfortunately it hasen't been seen sinse friday night. We did get Forester's Terns and Horned Grebes there of note. Some people saw an adult Little Gull with a Transmitter of sorts on its back. Euro bird? Guess we'll probably never know.

 Rose-breasted Grosebeak Male

  Farily yellow Blue-headed Vireo

Over-all, despite the rain, a very enjoyable day.

Good Birding!