Saskatoon Shorebirds Tour 2024
Fas Gas Plus Parking Lot SK-41 & SK-5, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CanadaNovice and experienced bird watchers are welcome to join this tour.
If available, you may borrow a pair of binoculars during this tour.
Novice and experienced bird watchers are welcome to join this tour.
If available, you may borrow a pair of binoculars during this tour.
Situated 30 minutes from Saskatoon on the edge of the Strawberry Hills, Porter Lake Important Bird Area attracts over 120 bird species over the course of the year. Colonies of Double-crested Cormorants and Bank Swallows have nested here in recent years.
Blackstrap Lake Birding Tour may be joined at either
Wild Birds Unlimited Store, 2600 8th St E in Saskatoon
Mountain View Picnic Site in Blackstrap Lake Provincial Park (35 minutes later)
Join our experienced local birding guide for a 3 hour driving tour to visit some of the best bird-rich hotspots in the Saskatoon region in and near Blackstrap Lake Provincial Park. We will visit deep water regions for viewing diving ducks and pelicans. We will also visit shallow ponds for observing dabbling ducks, grebes and wetland sparrows, rails and other marsh birds. Over 175 bird species may be found here between May and September.
On the recommendation of Edgar Dewdney, Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories, this Last Mountain Lake Bird Sanctuary was set aside in 1887 by the government of Sir John A MacDonald (Canada’s first prime minister) for the protection of wildfowl, the first such reserve on the North American continent.
This Blackstrap Lake Birding Tour is ideal for low-mobility clients because they may remain in their vehicle during most of this driving tour.
The Gardiner Dam region has many diving birds on Lake Diefenbaker and along the South Saskatchewan River. The lake shore provides nesting habitat for the rare Piping Plover. Great Blue Herons have nested nearby. The woodlands in Coldwell Regional Park has several kinds of woodpeckers, vireos, flycatchers, warblers and sparrows. Spotted Towhees are found here. The Anerley Lakes valley may have both grassland birds and marsh birds.