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

The Wolf Lake 2 Survey begins near Dorion which is about 75 kilometers east of Thunder Bay.

The red soiled road of this survey is very remote and we have never encountered another vehicle.

Here are some photos of the terrain.

  

Here is the complete list of birds we found on June 18, 2018. I have added a photo that I took during the survey of Cedar Waxwings in addition to some of the plants and other sights which we encountered.

Start Time 5:21 am   End Time: 10:19 am

Start Temperature: 13 degrees   End Temperature  18 degrees

38 SPECIES

4 Canada Goose

1 Downy Woodpecker

1 Hairy Woodpecker

1 Pileated Woodpecker

1 Alder Flycatcher

2 Philadelphia Vireo

30 Red-eyed Vireo

2 Blue Jay

6 American Crow

3 Common Raven

5 Red-breasted Nuthatch

3 Winter Wren

2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

15 Swainson’s Thrush

3 Hermit Thrush

4 American Robin

13 Cedar Waxwing

 

1 Purple Finch

12 Pine Siskin

4 Chipping Sparrow

2 Savannah Sparrow

1 Song Sparrow

14 White-throated Sparrow

19 Ovenbird

1 Northern Waterthrush

2 Black and White Warbler

7 Nashville Warbler

8 Mourning Warbler

4 American Redstart

9 Magnolia Warbler

1 Chestnut-sided Warbler

1 Cape May Warbler

1 Northern Parula Warbler

9 Magnolia Warbler

2 Blackburnian Warbler

14 Chestnut-sided Warbler

2 Black-throated Green Warbler

2 Canada Warbler

Miles Hearn