Breeding Bird Surveys are run in the month of June each year. They are done on rural or logging roads with little or no traffic. The routes are 40 kilometers in length. We start 30 minutes before sunrise and listen and search for birds during a 3 minute time limit. We then drive 0.8 kilometers and repeat the process. This is done 50 times.

Cochrane is approximately 750 kilometers north of Toronto.

Here is the complete list of birds we found on June 14, 2018. I have added photos of some of the plants which we encountered.

Start Time 4:44 am   End Time: 9:37 am

Start Temperature: 9 degrees  End Temperature  8 degrees

37 SPECIES

1 Common Merganser

1 Spruce Grouse

4 Sandhill Crane

5 Wilson’s Snipe

3 Common Loon

2 American Bittern

1 Belted Kingfisher

1 Northern Flicker

1 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

8 Alder Flycatcher

4 Least Flycatcher

1 Philadelphia Vireo

14 Red-eyed Vireo

3 American Crow

5 Common Raven

1 Black-capped Chickadee

1 Red-breasted Nuthatch

3 Winter Wren

13 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

11 Swainson’s Thrush

6 Hermit Thrush

21 American Robin

8 Chipping Sparrow

3 Lincoln’s Sparrow

4 Swamp Sparrow

30 White-throated Sparrow

1 Common Grackle

2 Ovenbird

15 Tennessee Warbler

8 Nashville Warbler

3 Mourning Warbler

6 Common Yellowthroat

3 American Redstart

3 Magnolia Warbler

1 Bay-breasted Warbler

2 Cape May Warbler

1 Palm Warbler

Miles Hearn