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