Last Friday I awoke in the early morning (3am) and made the trek from Fergus down to Zion Road near Wheatley, Ontario with high hopes of seeing some of the rarities that had been blown in by days and days of consecutive south winds. The forecast was calling for a shift in wind direction from the north, and I expected that some of these birds (particularly any raptors that were in the area) would be sent towards the lake as they headed south. I was not disappointed! We had the Ferruginous Hawk (found by Brandon the previous days) fly right by, and only a couple of hours later had a Swallow-tailed Kite. Other highlights included a Eurasian Collared Dove that bombed right past us as it also headed south. A few of the photos from the day are below.
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| Eurasian Collared Dove - too fast to get more than a blur! |
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| Horned Lark |
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| Brown Thrasher |
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| Black-bellied Plover |
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| Ferruginous Hawk |
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| Ferruginous Hawk |
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| Ferruginous Hawk |
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| Sharp-shinned Hwk |
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| Swallow-tailed Kite |
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| Swallow-tailed Kite |
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| Red-tailed Hawk |
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| Broad-winged Hawk |
