Friday, May 25
6:15 am Kingston, Ontario
It is +17 °C, with a high forecast of +25 °C.
From the Environment Canada website:
Today Increasing cloudiness. 30 percent chance of showers late this afternoon with risk of a thunderstorm. Wind south 30 km/h becoming light late this morning. High 25 except 21 near Lake Ontario. UV index 8 or very high.
Tonight Mainly cloudy with 30 percent chance of showers early this evening and risk of a thunderstorm. Clearing this evening. Wind west 20 km/h becoming light late this evening. Low 13.
10:30 am Life
We drove from Kingston to Milford, Ontario this morning. We moved into a farm home that was vacant. I had been given the key by a friend in Lethbridge.
It took a couple of hours to get the unit cleaned up as the previous people who had used it left it in a bit of a mess.
11:00 am Birding
We began birding at Prince Edward County and immediately began seeing birds. Here is a list of the ones we identified:
- Redstart (first in 2012)
- Yellow Warbler
- Gray Catbird
- Least Flycatcher (first in 2012)
- Baltimore Oriole
- House Wren
- Warbling Vireo
- Eastern Kingbird
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Ring-billed Gull
- American Crow
- Black-capped Chickadee
- American Redstart
- American Goldfinch
- Chipping Sparrow
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- Purple Martin (LIFER)
- Cliff Swallow
- Wild Turkey (first in 2012)
- Mourning Dove
- Turkey Vulture (first in 2012)
Here are 2 photos of Yellow Warblers. They are easily the most common and the most photogenic of the birds we are seeing on this trip.
