Yesterday Sept. 17/19 Bob Tyler and I birded Ward’s Island and we did come up with some nice birds besides the 2 title birds and following are some of them. 1 female Long-tailed Duck, Great Blue Heron, Osprey, Sharp-shined Hawk, Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers, Flickers, Eastern Wood-Pewees, Yellow-bellied, Least and Great Crested Flycatchers, White-breasted Nuthatches, House Wren, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Swainson’s and Wood Thrushes, Catbirds, Brown Thrasher, Warbling, Philadelphia and Red-eyed Vireos, 21 warbler species including Tennessee, 2 Orange-crowned, Nashville, 6 Parulas, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Cape-May, Blk-throated Blue, Yellow-rumped, TOWNSEND’S, Blk-throated Green, Blackburnian, Palm, Bay-breasted, Black and White, Redstart, Ovenbird, CONNECTICUT, Mourning, Wilson’s and Canada Warbler and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks. After I left for the ferry Bob found 3 Yellow-throated Vireos and a Scarlet Tanager on Dacotah Ave. on Algonquin Island. Finally a sign that migration is picking up down there. Norm Murr Richmond Hill. ON Sent from Mail for Windows 10