[Ontbirds]Bruce Region report

[Cindy Cartwright]

The weather can't make up its mind but the birds have decided it's spring.  Arrivals in the past 2 weeks include Sandhill Cranes, Great Blue Herons, Great Egrets, Cormorants, Eastern Phoebe, Yellow-rumped Warblers, Eastern Bluebirds, Tree and Barn Swallows.

If you feed the birds, it's time to put out hummingbird feeders.  The first hummingbirds reported in Ontario the past two years were April 13, 2006 and April 11, 2007.  The first hummingbirds in Michigan were reported on April 9 this year.  Please forward reports of hummingbird arrival dates to the Ontario Hummingbird Project.

Happy humming,
Cindy
www.ontariohummingbirds.ca