Cape Breton Headlands
July 13th, 2015

Some of Mike's photos from the headlands of Schooner Pond and White Point.



Check out that tree at the back.



I remember trees like this in old Sierra games. If you got too close to them they ate you.





That's about as close as I want that camera lens to me, thankyouverymuch.



Oh no you don't.

This is it for our Cape Breton photos, barring any that Mike may choose to post on his own blog. My triplist follows.

Lifers starred...

Alder Flycatcher
American Black Duck
American Crow
American Redstart
American Robin
American Tree Sparrow
*Atlantic Puffin
Bald Eagle
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black Guillemot
Black Scoter
Black-Capped Chickadee
Black-Legged Kittiwake
Black-and-White Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Blue Jay
Blue-Headed Vireo
Canada Goose
Common Eider
Common Grackle
Common Loon
Common Tern
Common Yellowthroat
Dark-Eyed Junco
Double-Crested Cormorant
European Starling
Gadwall
Great Black-Backed Gull
Great Blue Heron
Great Cormorant
Green-Winged Teal
Herring Gull
Iceland Gull
Magnolia Warbler
Mallard
*Nelson's Sparrow
Northern Gannet
Northern Harrier
Northern Parula
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
*Piping Plover
Purple Finch
Razorbill
Red-Eyed Vireo
Red-Tailed Hawk
Red-Winged Blackbird
Ring-Billed Gull
Ring-Necked Duck
Rock Pigeon
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
Ruffed Grouse
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Spotted Sandpiper
*Spruce Grouse
Tree Swallow
Turkey Vulture
White-Throated Sparrow
Willet
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-Rumped Warbler

Heard only:

Black-Throated Green Warbler
Chestnut-Sided Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Ovenbird
Sora

Total: 63 + 5 heard only

As-yet-unmentioned highlights of this list: the Bank Swallows had their own colony at the Bird Islands, flying in and out of tiny burrows in the cliff faces. Willets had a colony at Glace Bay. The Iceland Gull was a singleton in Highlands National Park and by far my best view ever of the species, one I've only seen a handful of times in Ottawa. The beautiful Blackburnian Warbler was actually in a mixed migrant group. In early June warbler migration was still very much on up there!

Highlands Park Vistas ←

→ Bladder Campion