Well, we have just returned from our annual trip to Killbear Provincial Park. This was our 41st year camping at Killbear and have seen a lot of changes. Most for the worse. However, it is still a nice place to camp and canoe/kayak and especially nice because the kids and grandkids attend too.
Birding wise, this is a great time of year to visit the park. Most days my ebird lists covered around 50 species and I was able to view 16 warbler species, usually in pretty good numbers. Killbear also has an active Great Blue Heron rookery and it proved pretty active this year with 15-16 birds present on most visits.
Barred Owls are also very common at Killbear and can be seen and heard early morning and evenings hooting.
I was extremely excited to have the opportunity to photograph this Yellow-throated Vireo down low at eye level as it walked the branches grabbing an assortment of insects. In fact, all the warblers could be seen low in the shrubbery busy hunting for food and this week’s blogs will feature some of the warblers I was able to capture images of.
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