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
$115 for a face cord is pretty reasonable – compared to what I pay in TO anyway
Woderfull pics, as always.Thanks