{"id":1044,"date":"2013-05-06T13:27:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T13:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2013-05-06T13:27:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T13:27:44","slug":"pibo-migration-summary-april-21-30-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/pibo-migration-summary-april-21-30-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"PIBO Migration Summary (April 21 &#8211; 30, 2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1045\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1045\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1045\" title=\"Prothonotary Warbler, by Sumiko Onishi\" src=\"http:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/prow-300x221.png\" alt=\"Prothonotary Warbler, by Sumiko Onishi\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prothonotary Warbler, by Sumiko Onishi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was a busy and productive ten days at the Point from April 21<sup>st<\/sup> \u2013 30<sup>th<\/sup> thanks in part to six days of southerly winds at the end of the month. It remained cool up to the 27<sup>th<\/sup>, with dawn temperatures averaging around 3\u00b0 C, but migration remained consistent and a good variety of species were noted in moderate numbers. In all, 22 spring \u2018firsts\u2019 were recorded during the summary period, including a number of unusual species.<\/p>\n<p>Northeast winds and a chilly 1\u00b0 C greeted staff on the morning of the 21<sup>st<\/sup>, but there were quite a few birds around, with 52 species recorded during the \u2018count\u2019 period, including the first Red-breasted Nuthatches of the spring and a <strong>White-eyed Vireo<\/strong>. April 22<sup>nd<\/sup> saw a similar mix of species \u2013 swallows were numerous along the west beach, with over 100 birds of four species observed, and Ruby-crowned Kinglets and Blue-gray Gnatcatchers were active, with 26 and 13 individuals recorded, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The wind remained from the north and migrant numbers tapered off on the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> \u2013 a Cooper\u2019s Hawk and Ovenbird were both new for the year \u2013 and a blustery and very rainy morning on April 24<sup>th<\/sup> made for a fairly quiet time, with just 34 species tallied on the census. But things turned around the next day and staff were greeted with a busy morning on the 25<sup>th<\/sup>. More than 200 swallows were observed feeding over Fox Pond including 85 Barn, 51Tree, ones-and-twos of Bank and Northern Rough-winged, and the season\u2019s first Cliff Swallow. Fifty-five species were documented, including a banded male <strong>Prothonotary Warbler <\/strong>and a singing <strong>White-eyed Vireo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I was cool (2\u00b0 C) and clear on the 26<sup>th<\/sup> and there wasn\u2019t much to report apart from the first Veery of the spring, still lots of swallows, and small numbers of three warbler and five sparrow <em>spp<\/em>. The next day was generally quiet as well, with 46 species recorded in small numbers, but a few new arrivals included a Warbling Vireo and Black-and-white Warbler, along with a banded <strong>Louisiana Waterthrush<\/strong>. It rained most of the day on April 28<sup>th<\/sup> and just the census and a few hours of netting were conducted. Forty-eight species were tallied including a <strong>Northern Mockingbird<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It was extremely foggy and migrants were fairly sparse in the morning on April 29<sup>th<\/sup>, but an afternoon walk along the beach at the PIBO cottage (part of the Great Canadian Shoreline Clean-up) produced 50 balloons, a Red-headed Woodpecker, and PIBO\u2019s first recorded <strong>Henslow\u2019s Sparrow<\/strong>. The final day of the summary period was similar to the preceding four days \u2013 our official daily species count for the last five days of April was remarkably consistent: April 30<sup>th<\/sup> (45 DT), 29<sup>th<\/sup> (48), 28<sup>th<\/sup> (48), 27<sup>th<\/sup> (46) and 26<sup>th<\/sup> (44). While there were no large concentrations of birds, a nice range of species was tallied on the 30<sup>th<\/sup> including spring \u2018firsts\u2019 for Hooded Merganser, Wood Thrush, Yellow Warbler, and Lincoln\u2019s Sparrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<em>PIBO\u2019s next summary will be posted on May 12<sup>th<\/sup>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a busy and productive ten days at the Point from April 21st \u2013 30th thanks in part to six days of southerly winds at the end of the month. It remained cool up to the 27th, with dawn temperatures averaging around 3\u00b0 C, but migration remained consistent and a good variety of species [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[68,33,67,40,53,48,65,66],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pibo-update","tag-louisiana-waterthrush","tag-migration","tag-northern-mockingbird","tag-pelee-island","tag-pelee-island-bird-observatory","tag-pibo","tag-prothonotary-warbler","tag-white-eyed-vireo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}