Long Point/Port Rowan is the Place to be for Birds

While it is snowing right now in Port Rowan the fact that my feeders are being visited by grackles and red wing blackbirds means that the spring migration is on its way.

I’ve been told that around Long Point migration goes on twelve months per year.

But it seems when people talk about bird migrations, in southern Ontario anyway, they seem to think Point Peele is the be all and end all.

That’s not true.  Long Point/Port Rowan is the place to be.

Here is a video that talks about migration and the banding program at the Long Point Bird Observatory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPHDnZDfUHw

And if you haven’t seen it already on the right side of this page take a look at Long Point birds in the winter of 2010-11.  I’m taking it down when I’ve seen the last of this snow.  That’s a promise.