Huron Fringe Birding Festival 2024

May 24 pm - Magical MacGregor with Tim Arthur

At 1:30 pm, we met our afternoon Guide, Tim Arthur. He guided us around the boardwalk where we saw a Painted turtle and a family group of Hooded Mergansers.




We got in our cars, and drove the short way to Bruce Road 33, stopping to hike into the Stump Dump. We had to watch carefully for the campers on bicycles, but managed to see many flycatchers, including Olive-sided, Eastern Wood Pewee, Great Crested and Eastern Kingbird.





After that, we drove to the DU Pond on the Townline Road. We hiked in and climbed the tower. We saw a Gray Catbird, more turtles, a Yellow Warbler, Baltimore Oriole, another Pewee, and an American Redstart. Out on the road, we saw a back-lit Mourning Warbler.




What a lot of hiking this day between the two tours; we were bushed. We drove back to the Super 8, got cleaned up, and went across the road to the Lord Elgin Fish & Chips restaurant.



We were talking about the War Museum and Barbara’s father’s war service. So, Hilda asked the young lady waitress, a first-year university student, if she know much about the war. She regretfully admitted that she knew next to nothing. We concluded that our high school syllabus needed some work in that area.


We enjoyed our meal and headed to bed, setting our alarms for another early start.