Back to Hillman Marsh and on to Rondeau Provincial Park

 

Our last day at Point Pelee, we went back to Hillman Marsh.  The best birding was in the trail to the marsh, wherever got good views of an indigo bunting (above) and a bay-breasted warbler.

Lots of tree swallows.

The Merlin app identified a field sparrow calling.  We got him to respond to a callback, but it never came out in the open.  Too bad. A lifer for both of us and such a dearth of sparrows in the Erie Lake area.

In the afternoon we drove to our last destination, Rondeau Provincial Park.  

Past the avenue of greenhouses again

We set up in our last campsite for the trip.

And walked down to the Black Oak trail.  Here we saw a plethora of house and Carolina wrens.

Checking out the wrens.

We found the beach.  

(There is a lot of beach, it's a peninsula.)

On our way back we spotted a kildeer on the side of the road.

It went into broken wing mode.  I was very excited as I'd never witnessed this before.

Which meant there was a nest nearby.  We looked and looked and couldn't find it.  Then I saw Leo nearly step on what looked like a pile of dried up dog turds.

It was a nest with several baby kildeers.  

Fortunately, disaster was averted and we let the kildeer family be.  Looking back we noticed these 2 traffic cones that were put there to keep us away from the nest!