A quick shout out from a public terminal
May 15th, 2010
Day 1 of the Point Pelee trip: "Comedy of errors" does not even begin to cover it. The bus was schedule to leave at 6:00am. The trip was to be about 8 hours, plus about 2 additional hours of birding en route at Hillman Marsh. We checked into the hotel at 10:45pm. You do the math.
Seriously, we're famous here now. We run into random people on the trails and they're all "oh, you're the Ottawa group. We heard about that."
Day 2: Point Pelee is unbelievable. Incredible. Astounding. Awe-inspiring. And many other adjectives. In one morning + afternoon, I racked up five lifers and a downright dizzying full species list that included something on the order of twenty different warblers. (It was an incredible place for other reasons too, which I'll describe in a later, much more detailed post.) I will go back someday. Oh god, so help me, I WILL go back someday.
Day 3 (today): Rondeau Provincial Park was nice, but does not deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence or even the same paragraph as Point Pelee. Unfortunately, not knowing that, I took the camera out today instead of yesterday. Still got a few good pictures though.
Day 4: The trip home with a birding stop at Thickson Woods. I plan to be camera-enabled, if weather permits. Wish me (and all of us) luck that the trip home will not be as much of an "adventure" as the trip here.
May 15th, 2010
Day 1 of the Point Pelee trip: "Comedy of errors" does not even begin to cover it. The bus was schedule to leave at 6:00am. The trip was to be about 8 hours, plus about 2 additional hours of birding en route at Hillman Marsh. We checked into the hotel at 10:45pm. You do the math.
Seriously, we're famous here now. We run into random people on the trails and they're all "oh, you're the Ottawa group. We heard about that."
Day 2: Point Pelee is unbelievable. Incredible. Astounding. Awe-inspiring. And many other adjectives. In one morning + afternoon, I racked up five lifers and a downright dizzying full species list that included something on the order of twenty different warblers. (It was an incredible place for other reasons too, which I'll describe in a later, much more detailed post.) I will go back someday. Oh god, so help me, I WILL go back someday.
Day 3 (today): Rondeau Provincial Park was nice, but does not deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence or even the same paragraph as Point Pelee. Unfortunately, not knowing that, I took the camera out today instead of yesterday. Still got a few good pictures though.
Day 4: The trip home with a birding stop at Thickson Woods. I plan to be camera-enabled, if weather permits. Wish me (and all of us) luck that the trip home will not be as much of an "adventure" as the trip here.
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