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Wednesday 26th of April 2023 and I left my room around 10 thirty and it should be about 90 minutes to reach the Presquile Provincial Park. It was cold when I left but the sun was shining and the temperature came up slowly and approaching the Presquile Provincial Park and the thermometer shows 7 °C. I reach the Presquile Provincial Park and there is a 20 Scooby Doo Dollar entrance fee, but I could buy a season entry card for 80 Dollars and I did so as I suspect I will visit more of their parks while in Canada. I spot a few American Robins at the entrance and this is also an eBird hotspot. I turn off the eBird app and change to eBird hotspot: Presqu'ile Provincial Park--Beaches I turn right to get down to Beach #1 and I am soon seeing a Brown Thrasher sitting in the top of a tree and singing. I put the car in position using the sunroof to get both pictures and a sound recording of the bird. Listen to the Brown Thrasher
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  Brown Thrasher
 Brown Thrasher
 American Robin
I park the car to walk down to the beach and I found one path covered with some blue coloured plastic pavement so I can go down to the water without getting any sand in my shoes. Warm air and cold sand and there were a beautiful smoke coming up from the sand. I was a little disappointed, no shore birds, only two crows and some gulls. I tried to get some pictures but, well, I have had better pictures. I walked back to the car and there were no more birds to be seen on the beach.  Blue cover over the sand
   Smoke from the cold sand
 One gull and two crows
  Herring Gull
 American Crow
Listen to the Red-winged Blackbird
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I drove away and I stopped again to record a Red-winged Blackbird sitting in a tree next to the road. I recorded the bird through the sunroof. I tried to take some pictures but the bird was sitting behind twigs and branches so they turned out to nothing.
 Today's track at eBird hotspot: Presqu'ile Provincial Park--Beaches
I drive to the Marsh Boardwalk Trail and the first bird I see, well, I hear it first and it is a Blue Jay calling from top of a tree. I bring out my ZOOM H5 Handy recorder and the bird turn quiet. I get a few pictures but the bird is a wee bit too far away for the pictures to be good. There is another car with a family from Holland arriving at the same time as I do and I give them a few minutes to start the trail ahead of me to avoid a “crowd” I like to walk around alone to make sound recordings etc.  Blue Jay
 Ready to take on the Marsh Boardwalk trail
 Marsh Boardwalk trail
 Marsh Boardwalk trail
I get out on the board walk and I am walking past the Dutch family and I am soon stopping to try to get pictures of two Swamp Sparrows without any success. I learned that it was Swamp Sparrows when I came back to my hotel room. I let the Dutch family pass me again and this time I gave them plenty time to get ahead of me on the board walk. I never got any pictures of the birds and I continued and I was spotting another bird in the reeds. The bird disappeared but there was a Canada Goose that I got a picture of. If you are bird watching in Canada you must have a picture of a Canada Goose  Canada Goose
Listen to the Swamp Sparrow
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I run in to two more Swamp Sparrows and I start to make a sound recording. But now I have another couple coming up behind me and they are talking loudly so I stop the recording. And of course, the bird took off before I could get any pictures. I pass a Mute Swan nest with a female swan and I see the male mute swan on the pond about 100 meters away. These Mute Swans are not a natural bird to Canada. They are escapees from rich people that brought them here hundreds of years ago to decorate their private ponds and parks.  Mute Swan
 Mute Swan
 Marsh Boardwalk trail
 Marsh Boardwalk trail
 Caspian Tern
End of the trail and I walk through a forest and here I cannot see any birds in the woods. These woods are sand banks in the wet lands that turned in to forests thousands of years ago. But I had seen a new “Lifer” on the boardwalk, the Swamp Sparrow. The second “lifer” for today, the first one was the Brown Thrasher.
 Today's track at eBird hotspot: Presqu'ile Provincial Park--Marsh Boardwalk trail
I drive towards the light house and I pas the eBird hotspot: Presqu'ile Provincial Park--day use/picnic areas and there are some birds, not many and the only exciting bird is one Northern Flicker foraging on the lawn. There are picnic tables along the road and there are some people having picnic along the road and it is just next to the water.  Northern Flicker
 Today's track at eBird hotspot: Presqu'ile Provincial Park--day use/picnic areas
I drive back to the hotel leaving the park behind and one kilometer or so after having passed the gate I stop at another eBird hotspot. I see 3 Canada Geese from the road and I leave the road to go have a look. I spend a couple of minutes and there was nothing exciting. But I spotted one Song Sparrow when I was leaving and I tried to get some pictures.  Song Sparrow
 Song Sparrow
 Today's track at eBird hotspot: Brighton--Ontario Street Dock Parkette
I am back at my hotel and I will wake up early tomorrow to drive to Algonquin Park will take almost 3 hours and it is about 250 km. So, it will be many hours in the car. And I really hope  it pays out with many birds.
We just need to click HERE to find out if there are any excitements in Algonquin Park
    
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Species lifer: First time that someone observes a species in their life
Photo lifer: First time that someone photographs a species in their life
Audio lifer: First time that someone audio records a species in their life
Naturalized: Exotic population is self-sustaining, breeding in the wild, persisting for many years, and not maintained through ongoing releases (including vagrants from Naturalized populations). These count in official eBird totals and, where applicable, have been accepted by regional bird records committee(s).
Provisional: Either: 1) member of exotic population that is breeding in the wild, self-propagating, and has persisted for multiple years, but not yet Naturalized; 2) rarity of uncertain provenance, with natural vagrancy or captive provenance both considered plausible.
Escapee: Exotic species known or suspected to be escaped or released, including those that have
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