Hi All,

Just a quick note on our trip today to Pt. Pelee N.P. and surrounding area (since the last Pelee report only covered to the 23rd).

Myself (Dave Brown) with Mark Cunningham and Jason McGuire had an excellent day with a total of 95 species...not too shabby for April 27th.

Highlights included:

WHITE-EYED VIROE (2)
- One at the Tip and a second at NW corner of visitor centre parking lot

RED-HEADED WOODPECKER (2)

• together flying overhead at Sparrow Field

BROAD-WINGED HAWK (1)

• A nice adult at the tram halfway stop area taking a low level run at a very upset mob of blackbirds

GOLDEN EAGLE (1)

• Great look at this bird as it soared no more than a couple of hundred feet right over us on Conc E just east of the park entrance.
• Immature bird (age indeterminant) still exhibiting white patches in the wings and a broad white band across the tail

ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK (1)

• Like the Golden...this bird was right overhead in the company of several TV's on Conc E just east of the park entrance
• Light morph

MARBLED GODWIT (1)

• single bird that dropped into the Hillman Marsh Shorebird Habitat just around 6:00 p.m.
• was actively feeding near all of the terns

Good birding!!
Dave

Directions:  See previous posts for route to Pt. Pelee National Park and Hillman Marsh.

An immature Little Blue Heron is currently in the pond beside Bird Studies
Canada's Headquarter office in Port Rowan. The bird is predominently white,
but is in transitional plumage with many blue feathers, giving it a mottled
appearance.

The bird was first spotted briefly this morning at Old Cut banding station
by Ted Matterford, but had apparently not been resighted until now.

BSC's office is located at the western end of Port Rowan along Front Street.
The pond is visible from the observation deck on the south-west corner. To
reach Port Rowan, you can take highway 59 south and turn east of Front
Street. BSC's office is a few hundred meters from highway 59, on the south
side of Front Street.

This google map link provides the location:
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bird+studies+Canada&sll=49.8
91235,-97.15369&sspn=23.77254,59.765625&ie=UTF8&ll=42.627391,-80.463181&spn=
0.052921,0.11673&z=13

Happy spring!

Denis Lepage
Port Rowan, Ontario
Bird Studies Canada