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

Smooth Rock Falls is approximately one hour west of Cochrane.

Here is the complete list of birds we found on June 15, 2018. I have added photos that I took during the survey of Yellow-rumped Warbler and Canada Jay in addition to some of the plants which we encountered.

Start Time 4:48 am   End Time: 9:32 am

Start Temperature: 3 degrees   End Temperature  18 degrees

40 SPECIES

1 Sandhill Crane

6 Wilson’s Snipe

1 Common Loon

1 Northern Flicker

7 Alder Flycatcher

4 Least Flycatcher

4 Blue-headed Vireo

24 Red-eyed Vireo

5 Canada Jay

7 American Crow

11 Common Raven

1 Black-capped Chickadee

10 Red-breasted Nuthatch

3 Winter Wren

16 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

31 Swainson’s Thrush

10 Hermit Thrush

19 American Robin

4 Cedar Waxwing

1 Purple Finch

3 Chipping Sparrow

1 Song Sparrow

1 Lincoln Sparrow

4 Swamp Sparrow

25 White-throated Sparrow

2 Common Grackle

9 Ovenbird

1 Northern Waterthrush

2 Black and White Warbler

30 Tennessee Warbler

4 Nashville Warbler

1 Mourning Warbler

1 Common Yellowthroat

2 American Redstart

13 Magnolia Warbler

3 Bay-breasted Warbler

1 Chestnut-sided Warbler

1 Yellow-rumped Warbler

2 Cape May Warbler

1 Northern Parula Warbler

Miles Hearn