This past weekend (June 4th & 5th) 10 birders joined myself and Alfred

Hi birders, This past weekend (June 4th & 5th) 10 birders joined myself and Alfred Raab exploring the Bruce Peninsula in search of breeding birds. The weather couldn’t have been much better… with both days having sun and cloud, starting off fairly cool (8 degrees) but rising up to around 20 degrees in the afternoons. Saturday was a bit windy for the majority of the day, which did make birding by ear a challenge, but we still managed to find a good variety of species. On Saturday we started off at Hepworth and moved up the peninsula, stopping at multiple inland lakes as well as along the escarpment by Georgian Bay. Stops included; Malcolm Bluff, Spry Lake, Wiarton Sewage Lagoons, Sky Lake and Purple Valley. We ended the day at Isaac Lake in the early evening, with a total of 103 species. On Sunday we started at the Tobermory Airport and spent the day birding around the northern peninsula, including Dyers Bay Road and Cape Hurd Road. It was another fantastic day of birding, with the total reaching 85 species… and brining is up to 125 for the entire trip. Highlight birds from the weekend included; - a nice assortment of late ducks, Bufflehead, Lesser Scaup, Ring-necked Duck and Redhead - A lingering Red-necked Grebe - Sora and Virginia Rail - 1 Least Bittern - 2 American Bitterns - 25 Black Terns - 2 Northern Harriers - 1 Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 Red-headed Woodpecker - 2 Cliff Swallows - 1 Northern Mockingbird - 2 Grasshopper Sparrows - 5 Field Sparrows - 2 Dark-eyed Juncos - 4 Brewer’s Blackbirds - 4 Golden-winged Warblers - 3 Blue-winged Warblers - 2 Mourning Warblers - Late migrant Blackpoll and Bay-breasted Warblers - 20 warbler species total - Multiple Scarlet Tanagers Good birding, Kiah Jasper