Autzoo.1591 net.rec.birds utzoo!andy Wed Apr 21 09:27:23 1982 Migration Underway Things are more or less on schedule at Point Pelee. The last two cold snaps we had didn't last very long; retreating migrants were quick to return. By April 17, Pelee had 16 (yes, sixteen) species of warblers. Other Pelee sightings: Grasshopper Sparrow (April 13--it set a record), Scarlet Tanager and Marbled Godwit. Here are some arrivals for other parts of the province: Red-throated Loon, Double Crested Cormorant, Virginia Rail, Sora, all the swallows (barn, tree, rough-winged, bank and purple martin), both Kinglets, Yellow-rumped and Pine Warblers, Water Pipit, Brown Thrasher, Wood Thrush, Hermit Thrush, Eastern Phoebe, Grasshopper and White-throated Sparrows. Unusual sightings: Smew, Yellow-headed Blackbird, Merlin. (Much of the above was gleaned from a birding column in the Globe and Mail.) I sent a note about Pileated Woodpeckers, some Ontario sightings and a query regarding interest in migration at Pelee. I am wondering if that item made it through. Has anybody seen it? I am trying to get some information of Alvars. Does anybody out there know anything about them? In case I am using the wrong term, an Alvar is an area of very thin soil over limestone; the vegetation growing there is scant and peculiar. Andy Rubaszek decvax!utzoo!andy ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.