{"id":21954,"date":"2012-09-28T21:51:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T19:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=21954"},"modified":"2024-11-23T09:13:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T08:13:58","slug":"birding-prince-edward-point-presquile-provincial-park-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/birding-prince-edward-point-presquile-provincial-park-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Birding Prince Edward Point & Presqu’ile Provincial Park – Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was still dark with the night\u2019s chilly draft and drizzling rain sweeping over Ottawa, when a small, dedicated group of birders met at the Park & Ride off Hwy 416 and Bankfield. The drive down to Prince Edward County revealed several species of birds with plenty more greeting us at the point.<\/p>\n

We were lucky with the weather, only being bothered by a few very small drizzling showers. We explored the woods at Prince Edward point finding only a hand full of warblers, a female Indigo Bunting and countless American Goldfinch. The Banding Station there reported capturing more than 75 of them every day.<\/p>\n

Merlins were fairly common around the point, but the most spectacular scene was an aerial attack between a persistent Sharp-shinned Hawk against a Coopers Hawk. From the point to our hotel in Trenton, we stopped several times observing many great birds.<\/p>\n

All in all, we ended up with a day list of 70 birds that day.<\/p>\n

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Sharp-shinned Hawk, Photo courtesy Tony Beck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Double-crested Cormorant, Photo courtesy Joshua McCullough<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Double-crested Cormorant, Photo courtesy Joshua McCullough<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Presqu’ile Park Light House, Photo courtesy Joshua McCullough<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mute Swans, Photo courtesy Joshua McCullough<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The next day started early with breakfast at 6:30am. And, the good weather followed us all day long.<\/p>\n

Presqu’ile Park and the surrounding area gave us many wonderful bird sightings, ending the day with a list of 86 birds.<\/p>\n

A total weekend trip list of 106 birds included 12 species of warblers, 5 species of woodpecker and 12 species of shorebirds.<\/p>\n

This was one of the best late-summer trips to Presqu’ile in Always An Adventure’s memory.<\/p>\n

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Caspian Tern, Photo courtesy Joshua McCullough<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Caspian Tern with fish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Birding group at Prince Edward Point<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was still dark with the night\u2019s chilly draft and drizzling rain sweeping over Ottawa, when a small, dedicated group of birders met at the Park & Ride off Hwy 416 and Bankfield. The drive down to Prince Edward County revealed several species of birds with plenty more greeting us at the point. We were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":2192525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSCN04222.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Birding Prince Edward Point & Presqu’ile Provincial Park – Canada","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[747,1109,1112,1111,1107,1113,1110,1108],"class_list":["post-21954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-caspian-tern","tag-double-crested-cormorant","tag-mute-swan","tag-presquile-park-light-house","tag-presquile-provincial-park","tag-prince-edward-point","tag-prince-edward-point-light-house","tag-sharp-shinned-hawk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}