Spring Has Arrived

Spring has finally arrived in the Long Point/Port Rowan area as evidenced by some the birds coming through on Sunday May 4^th.

Around 4:00 in the afternoon two American White Pelicans passed over our house heading westerly over the Inner Harbour of Long Point Bay.  Panic ensued as we tried to gather camera, binoculars secure our dog and visiting pets and head out after them. 

We were lucky to catch another brief glimpse of them (possibly ten minutes later) from the Bird Studies Canada property on Front Road.

Here is a shot from our front yard looking over the Inner Harbour, maybe 600 metres away.

Later that day Graham took some shots of a Sora hiding out in the decommissioned sewage lagoons on Hunter Drive North.  That is up on the top of the page.

You may know that the sewage lagoons are being turned into a table wetland. 


More information is attached at http://www.longpointbiosphere.ca/programs-projects/port-rown-sewage-lagoon-naturalization-project/

Guests are expected at our B & B (http://www.bbcanada.com/13914.html) this weekend.  They’ll find lots of backyard bird feeder activity including some male Baltimore Orioles (three, in fact) who arrived on Saturday and, as I finish typing this sentence, our first Ruby Throated Hummingbird of the year.