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2018 Point Pelee Festival of Birds (part 2)

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Male Orchard Oriole Veery Yellow Warbler Eastern Towhee Black-throated Blue Warbler Fungi Fungi Male Ruby-throated Hummingbird Lincoln's Sparrow Female Rose-breasted Grosbeak "Maximum-black Spring Adult" Baltimore Oriole  False Solomon Seal unfurling Tennessee Warbler Eastern Bluebird (our first ever sighting!) The gorgeous male Indigo Bunting! Gray Catbird A well-camouflaged Rufous Eastern Screech Owl Wild Violet White-crowned Sparrow Common Yellowthroat  Least Flycatcher An unfortunately early farewell to this year's Festival of Birds for us! Other notable sightings included Warbling Vireo and American Woodcock

Spring Has Sprung 2018

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Trout Lily Brown Creeper having a snack Ruby-crowned Kinglet Wood Thrush Male Horned Grebe Male Rose-breasted Grosbeak Eastern Chipmunk Male Baltimore Oriole Flowering Quince Saskatoon Serviceberry

2018 Point Pelee Festival of Birds (part 1) featuring forest floor findings

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Yellow-rumped Warbler A Point Pelee welcoming committee member Palm Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Orchard Oriole (snacking on bugs in a spiderweb) Cape May Warbler Common Nighthawk Male Rose-breasted Grosbeak Male Baltimore Oriole Veery Dutchman's Breeches Bellwort Trillium Black-and-white Warbler Cool fungi! Cool fungi! Violet A peek at the rare and elusive Kentucky Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Lesser Yellowlegs Muskrat Yellow Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Eastern Garter Snake Eastern Prickly-pear Cactus Magnolia Warbler Five-lined Skink Big Brown Bat Black-bellied Plover, Ruddy Turnstone, Long-billed Dowitcher, Dunlin, Ring-billed Gull, etc. Tree Swallow Other