Spring Sightings

Carl Haycock reports...
Spring has certainly arrived early. Peepers have been out for a week now. Yesterday the slugs were out in full force on the paved roads! And I found 2 Wood ticks on my Bernese Mountain Dog!

A few new birds have arrived.
1 Brown Creeper
1 W.B. Nuthatch
6 Boreal Chickadees on Camp road
1 Am Kestrel
6 N. Flicker
1 Fox Sparrow

Laura reports....
a brown creeper on Easter Sunday in a tree on the New Lane. There has been a female cardinal visiting my feeders..

Beautiful Spring day

What a beautiful spring day! I hiked peajack and back then went to Western Light and hiked around whipples point to pond cove. I'm sure i will feel it tonight! HA! HA!
At the second cove in along the bar i sighted 100 Brant.Lots of gulls pairing up and going with some nest material around whipples point area. I met up with my aunt Louise while hiking whipples point and she sighted a Great Blue Heron today at little pond. Hope everyone enjoyed this wonderful day, i know i sure did!

Pileated Woodpecker

Hi Everyone
As i was walking up the new lane today towards Western Light when i heard this constant hammering and decided to investigate. I walked toward Western Light road and on a telephone pole, the same one we used to put up Nesting Bluebird boxes was a PILEATED WOODPECKER.I didn't have my camera on me so i made a loop back to my car, rushed home and was hoping it would still be there when i got back and it was! Got some of these terrific photos of the Pileated woodpecker. When i looped home to get my camera i went past a field where 4 horses were penned and inside was a Killdeer displaying the broken wing trick to lure me away.
Other sightings today: Common Loon, eider Ducks, Black Ducks, American Goldfinch, Dark-eyed Junco, Robins, Common Grackle, Lots of Crows, Ravens carrying nesting material, Pheasants, Black-capped Chickadees, and Song Sparrows. Coltsfoot was blooming in abundance at peajack, and in the ditches lots of frog eggs.

New Arrivals

yesterday and this morning i sighted some new arrivals to our Island. Northern Flickers, and i heard a Northern Cardinal by my house. Also sighted pollywog eggs and heard peepers.