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Black Guillemot - juvenile seen along the coast |
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Eurasian Wigeon -1 at Beacon St. Dam |
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Bald Eagle - Main à Dieu |
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Bonaparte's Gull - Morien, Mira Gut and Catalone Gut |
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Caspian Tern - Before Hurricane Wilma we had never seen a Caspian Tern in Cape Breton. We heard the odd report of them but we had never been lucky enough to see one. By the end of today (Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005) we had seen 12 in the following areas - 3 Dominion Beach, 1 Glace Bay Sanctuary, 1 Schooner Pond, 1 Port Morien, 1 Mira Gut, 4 Catalone Gut, and 1 Gabarus. |
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Forster's Tern - one of two birds - this bird seen in a flock of Common Terns at Mira Gut; the second at Catalone Gut |
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Gull-billed Tern - 2 at Port Morien - we found and photographed this Gull-billed Tern this morning and returned in the afternoon with George and Bev Crowell. This bird was very cooperative. |
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Snowy Owl - Schooner Pond- Stanley Murrant 2 sightings, Glace Bay 2 sightings Glen MacKinnon, 1 Dominion Beach. |
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Baird's Sandpiper - Port Morien |
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Long-billed Dowitcher - flock of 5 birds were found at Glace Bay Sanctuary. |
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Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 seen at Schooner Pond by Bev and George Crowell and a second bird in Port Morien. |
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Black-billed Cuckoo - juvenile - Schooner Pond |
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Townsend's Solitaire - in our yard in Sand Lake |
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Yellow-breasted Chat - seen again in the same place - Schooner Pond |
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Gray Catbird - Schooner Pond |
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Indigo Bunting - Schooner Pond |