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The arrival of the Chipping sparrow is a sure sign of spring. They are one of the early migrant birds to appear in Ontario. Their distinctive “chipping” call is the best way to find a Chipping sparrow in a tree for a photo opportunity. The photo above was taken last spring at Jaycee Gardens Park in St. Catharines.
Apr 29, 2024 · Located along Lake Ontario, Presqu’ile Provincial Park is another Important Bird and Biodiversity Area known for large numbers of migrating waterfowl, warblers and shorebirds. During the Warblers and Whimbrels Weekend , birders are treated to bird walks and sightings of smaller migrating warblers and shorebirds.
The airspace over Eastern Lake Ontario is migration habitat, used twice every year by millions of birds, including waterfowl, shorebirds, raptors, and songbirds. The studies carried out by Wolfe Island Wind Monitoring indicate that many of these birds will be at risk from the proposed wind turbine projects.
4) Hawk Ridge, Minnesota. When raptors migrating south hit Lake Superior, they veer southwest and fly right past Hawk Ridge in Duluth, Minnesota. On big September days, the site can get tens of thousands of Broad-winged Hawks flying over. Updrafts can force the birds to hug tighter to the edge of the ridge, bringing them in close for photo ...
Mar 10, 2002 · Across a lake arm or bay at the end of a day’s flight, birds may flop at the tip of a point, exhausted. It’s no wonder, then, that three of the four best places to watch bird migrations around Lake Superior are peninsulas. Migrating birds flock to Thunder Cape at the southern tip of Sibley Peninsula in Ontario, to the Keweenaw Peninsula ...
Lake Ontario is the easternmost of the Great Lakes and the smallest in surface area (7,340 sq mi, 19,000 km 2 ), [5] although it exceeds Lake Erie in volume (393 cu mi, 1,640 km 3 ). It is the 13th largest lake in the world. When its islands are included, the lake's shoreline is 712 miles (1,146 km) long. As the last lake in the Great Lakes ...
About the Migration. One of nature’s remarkable spectacles can be witnessed each fall at Hawk Ridge Nature Reserve. Migrating raptors, originating from summer breeding areas as far north as the Arctic and with wintering destinations as far south as points in South America, concentrate in impressive numbers at the western tip of Lake Superior ...
