Birding
Birding
As we drive, wander and tend to the lands around us, we keep watch for feathered regulars and visiting friends. We’re not professionals in any way, so our identifications may not be thorough and may occasionally be less than precise. We’ve placed a Birding Log in the Guesthouse so this information will be updated occasionally.
We recommend the following site if you want to research images and information about any of the birds below:
1. Birds we and/or guests have seen here (160 acres of bush / wetland beside Turtle Mountain Park and a few miles south of Whitewater Lake). We’ve used ‘Manitoba Birds’ Field Guide by Brezener and De Smet as our naming and organizational guide.
American White Pelican (rare)
Double Crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose (nesting)
Ducks: Wood, Mallard, Teals, Pintail
Bald Eagle (early spring or late fall) R
Red Tailed Hawk
Northern Harrier
Ruffed Grouse
Sora Rail
Killdeer
Franklins Gull
Common Tern
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl
Snowy Owl
Common Nighthawk
Ruby Throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker (feeders)
Pileated Woodpecker (rare)
Eastern Phoebe
Red Eyed Vireo
Blue Jay (feeders)
American Crow
Common Raven
Barn Swallow
Black Capped Chickadee (feeders)
White Breasted Nuthatch (feeders)
House Wren
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Chipping Sparrow
Evening Grosbeak (feeders)
American Goldfinch (feeders)
Pine Siskin (feeders)
Common Redpoll (feeders)
Purple Finch (feeders)
Brewer’s Blackbird
Baltimore Oriole R
Rose Breasted Grosbeak
Red-Winged Blackbird
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow Warbler
American Redstart
Sparrows – various (feeders)
Dark Eyed Junco
2. Birds common to Farmland between us and Whitewater (not yet mentioned).
Snow Goose
Green Heron
Hawks – various
Sharp-Tailed Grouse (near-by)
Black-Billed Magpie
Purple Martin (town)
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-Headed Blackbird
3. Birds common to Turtle Mountain Provincial Park (not yet mentioned) – helped by pg 14 of “Manitoba Birds”.
Bobolink (Peace Garden)
Ovenbird
Common Loon (Lakes/Ponds)
Red-Necked Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Black-crowned
Night Heron
American Wigeon
Spotted Sandpiper
Sharp-skinned Hawk
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Mourning Warbler
4. Birds common to Whitewater Lake/Marsh –
info from “Community Conservation Plan for the Whitewater Lake
Important Bird Area” by Cory Lindgren.
Western Grebe
Eared Grebe
American White Pelican
Double-Crested Cormorant
Marsh Hawk
Great Blue Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
American Bittern
Sandhill Crane
Sora Rail,
Yellow Rail
American Coot
American Avocet
Black-Bellied Plover,
Killdeer
Marbled Godwit
Hudsonian Godwit
Upland Plove
Spotted Sandpiper
Willet,
Greater Yellowleg and Lesser Yellowlegs
Long-Billed Dowitcher
Sandpipers: Pectoral, Baird’s, Least and Semi-Palmated
Wilson’s Phalarope
Gulls: Herring, Ring-billed, Bonoparte’s, Franklin’s
Terns: Common, Forester’s, Caspian and Black
Long-billed Marsh Wren,
Bobolink
Redwing Blackbird and Yellow Headed Blackbird
Sparrows: Savanah, LeConte’s, Vesper, Swamps and Song
