Killbear, as usual, was extremely good for birding the first three weeks of June. There is always a great variety of birds, all down low busy feeding on the local insect population. As usual, for the first couple of hours early every morning I rode my bike around to my favourite birding haunts. Most mornings I’d end up with an eBird list around 40-60 species. Here are the first images of some of the birds encountered.
Yellow-throated Vireo
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Least Flycatcher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Northern Yellow Warbler
Black and White Warbler
Pileated Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
A distant image of a Black-crowned Night-Heron. The last couple of years I've observed. and reported, a BCNH in one of the ponds at Killbear Provincial Park to which I got the distinct feeling that the local eBird moderator was skeptical. However this year I was finally able to capture this image. BCNH nest way out in Georgian Bay on the Limestone Islands and the OFO yearly runs trips out to the islands to observe them and the terns that nest there. After I posted this image on my eBird report local birders were showing up early the next morning trying to locate the bird. I was unable to attend the OFO trip this year but plan on making the trip next year. Through canoe trips and sailing I have been to many of the islands, including the Mink, McCoy, Franklin, the Pancakes and Snake Islands, but never made it out to the Limestones.
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