Huron Fringe Birding Festival 2024

May 23 - Travelling to MacGregor Point Provincial Park

Our route to the festival goes via Bancroft and Orillia. This avoids most busy roads and allows us to visit the Carden Alvar on the way. We took Hwy 17 to Renfrew, then Hwy 132, Hwy 41 and on to Hwy 28.

The outfitter at the Madawaska bridge has bluebird boxes. We discovered that the black flies were out in force!





At Cardiff, we took Hwy 118 , then stopped for a break at Tory Hill. Yellow Warblers were singing but remained hidden..





Then it was on to Carden. There were many Bluebirds, Kingbirds and Tree Swallows. We met Jean Iron who was scouting for her upcoming Ontario Field Ornithologists trip. We saw a few Bobolinks and a Northern Rough-winged Swallow.





We stopped for Ice Cream at Kawartha Dairy in Orillia and gassed up. We took a different route through Collingwood, as advised by Google




We eventually arrive at the Super 8 in Port Elgin and met our friends Colin & Hilda. We went next door to Wendys and had a simple supper. We tucked in early and set our alarm for 5:00 am.


We were ready for our festival birding adventures.