A secretive marsh-dweller, this Least Bittern was an unusual capture in the mist nets at Long Point’s Tip on Thursday. @longpointbirds.bsky.social #birdringing

Female Taiga Merlin from the mist nets at the @longpointbirds.bsky.social Tip last week #birdringing

Pleased to find this juvenile Piping Plover at Long Point’s Tip last week. It fledged on North Manitou Island in Lake Michigan less than a month prior. @longpointbirds.bsky.social 🇨🇦🪶

I’ve recently spent some time designing a website. It includes a gallery of Canadian #birds photographed this spring. Feel free to check it out! maxhellicar.wixsite.com/home/longpoint-spring2026

Mourning Warbler ~ @longpointbirds.bsky.social Tip ~ 16 May 🪶

Setophaga warblers at the @longpointbirds.bsky.social Tip this May: Bay-breasted, Blackpoll, Black-throated Blue, and Northern Parula #birdringing

Setophaga warblers at the @longpointbirds.bsky.social Tip this May: Blackburnian, Black-throated Green, Chestnut-sided and Northern Yellow #birdringing

Black-and-white Warbler at @longpointbirds.bsky.social this May 🪶

Cedar Waxwing at @longpointbirds.bsky.social in mid-May. The waxy tips on their secondaries contain astaxanthin, a red carotenoid pigment commonly found in crustaceans. 🇨🇦🌎🧪 #birdringing

Vireos at @longpointbirds.bsky.social this spring: Blue-headed, Red-eyed, Eastern Warbling and Philadelphia #birdringing

Globally, Yellow-billed Cuckoos outnumber Black-billed elevenfold. Yet in Canada, there are 14 times as many breeding Black-billed Cuckoos as Yellow-billed! 📸 One of each at Long Point’s Tip in mid-May. 🇨🇦🌎🧪🪶

Eastern Kingbird ringed at Long Point’s Tip in mid-May. The shape of the outer primary differs between sexes, with males (pictured) having a sharper tip. The concealed crown patch can also be difficult to see in the field. 🪶🧪🌎

A single Bobolink was ringed on Long Point this spring: this female at the Tip on 17 May. Its annual migration between breeding in North America and wintering in South America is ~10,000 km each way! 🪶🧪🌎

The White-eyed Vireo is a rarity on Long Point; one was ringed at the Tip this spring, on 26 May. #birdringing

Wood Thrush at the Tip of Long Point in mid-May. Its scientific name, Hylocichla mustelina, roughly translates to “weasel-like forest thrush”. 🇨🇦🪶🧪🌎

Rose-breasted Grosbeak ~ 2CY male ~ Long Point, Ontario ~ 17 May 2026 ~ #birdringing

The Worm-eating Warbler is a vagrant to Canada, so this one at Long Point’s Tip on 20 May represented a notable record! #birdringing

Yellow-breasted Chat at Long Point’s Tip on 19 May. A taxonomic mystery for centuries, it is now recognised as the sole member of the family Icteriidae. 🇨🇦🌎🧪 #birdringing

This Solitary Sandpiper found its way into a mist net during our migration monitoring operations at Long Point’s Tip on 20 May. Unusually for waders, they nest in trees, reusing old nests of songbirds. 🇨🇦🧪🌎 #birdringing

Prothonotary Warbler at Long Point’s Tip on 18 May. This adult (3CY+) male was a standout highlight of the spring. Southern Ontario represents the northern edge of their breeding range, with a Canadian population of just ~30 individuals! 🇨🇦🧪🌎 #birdringing

60 Magnolia Warblers were fitted with Motus tags (small radio transmitters) at Long Point’s Tip this spring as part of research seeking to improve our understanding of their migration ecology. @birdscanada.bsky.social 🇨🇦🧪🌎 #birdringing

A highlight of this spring at Long Point’s Tip was finding this Yellow-throated Warbler during census on 28 May. It soon found its way into a mist net and was ringed, aged and sexed as a second-year male. A vagrant to Canada, it was the 8th Tip record. #birdringing

Circumnavigation of Long Point on Wednesday took us to our two remote Purple Martin colonies, where we collected cloacal swab samples for research on antibiotic resistance genes and ringed 128 chicks. ⛵️🧪🌎 #birdringing

We ringed a brood of Osprey in Port Rowan yesterday as part of collaborative research into how contaminants affect their reproductive ecology. It was a great opportunity to engage the local community, with >50 people coming to watch! @birdscanada.bsky.social 🌎🧪 #birdbanding

We checked on our Purple Martin nests at @longpointbirds.bsky.social yesterday to support research on how antibiotic resistance genes vary between adults and nestlings. 🇨🇦🌎🧪 #birdbanding

Eastern Whip-poor-will captured for tag retrieval this week as part of @birdscanada.bsky.social research on breeding ecology and habitat utilisation. Great to see these cryptic creatures of the night up close! 🇨🇦🌎🧪 #birdringing

It’s Tree Swallow chick time! 342 nestlings ringed between our two long-term study sites in Port Rowan over the past week. @longpointbirds.bsky.social 🇨🇦🌎🧪 #birdbanding

The first Scarlet Tanagers of the spring were ringed at the Tip this morning! 🇨🇦🪶 @longpointbirds.bsky.social

Eastern Bluebird and Great Crested Flycatcher at the Tip this week. Both are uncommon captures in our mist nets. @longpointbirds.bsky.social #birdringing

A varied and full day, as always, at @longpointbirds.bsky.social! A new eBird record count of Red-throated Divers for Norfolk County (ebird.org/checklist/S3...) and 40 km travelled for the Ontario Shorebird Survey, with two trailer loads of debris removed from the beach. 🇨🇦🌎🪶