Birding

Trails and Birds

BaLambton Shores Nature Trails maintains trails in some of the environmentally most significant natural areas in Southwestern Ontario. Located in Carolinian Canada, it is home to many birds including the migrating tundra swans who pass through in the early spring on their trek to the far north.

Four properties, L-Lake Conservation Area, Ausable River Cut Conservation Area, Forest Dunes and Ipperwash Dunes & Swales have been designated as Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA) by IBA Canada. Considering the natural habitat the trails go through and the proximately to lots of water, their is an abundance of birds along the trails.

Take a hike, bring binoculars or a camera, there's lots to see along the trails and enjoy the scenery!

List of Birds Observed

List of Birds Observed

Black-capped chickadee
House wren
Eastern phoebe
Wood thrush
American robin
Veery
Red-winged blackbird
Grey catbird
Common grackle
Great-crested flycatcher
Red-breasted nuthatch
Eastern Towhee
Common yellowthroat
Sora
Canada goose
Black and white warbler
Sandhill crane
Black-throated green warbler
Ruby-crowned kinglet
American redstart
Blue jay
Tree swallow
Yellow-rumped warbler

List of Birds Observed

List of Birds Observed

List of Birds Observed

American Crow
Canada warbler
Wood duck
Purple martin
White-throated sparrow
Nashville warbler
Northern parula
Blackpoll warbler
Black-throated blue warbler
Baltimore oriole
Tennessee warbler
Blue-grey gnatcatcher
Warbling vireo
Turkey vulture
Carolina wren
Pileated woodpecker
Northern flicker
Tufted titmouse
Winter wren
Song sparrow
Magnolia warbler
American goldfinch
Yellow warbler
Belted kingfisher

List of Birds Observed

Bay-breasted warbler
Red-eyed vireo
Great blue heron
Eastern wood pewee
Wilson's warbler
Northern harrier
Ovenbird
Least flycatcher
Barn swallow
Bank swallow
Blackburnian warbler
Northern cardinal
Red-bellied woodpecker
Mourning dove
Northern waterthrush
Mallard
Merlin
Green heron
Cape May warbler
Downy woodpecker
Brown-headed cowbird
Pine warbler
Eastern kingbird
Yellow-bellied sapsucker

Links to Specific Trails and Sightings

Want to know more about each trail and the birds that have been sighted? Click on the link below each property.

Ipperwash Dunes & Swales

https://ebird.org/canada/hotspot/L5914218

Lambton County Heritage Forest

https://ebird.org/canada/hotspot/L2281949

Connector Trail

https://ebird.org/canada/hotspot/L10277293

Ausable River Cut Conservation Area

https://ebird.org/canada/hotspot/L3070592

Ausable River Valley & Mystery Falls

https://ebird.org/canada/hotspot/L11725103

Forest Lagoons

https://ebird.org/canada/hotspot/L3058964