Nature & Discovery.
MacGregor Point Provincial Park sits a few minutes south of Port Elgin, with more than 200 recorded bird species and a position on the Lake Huron migration corridor that anchors the spring Huron Fringe Birding Festival. The park's Tower Trail and Huron Fringe Boardwalk read like a sampler of inland-Bruce wetland and forest birding — songbirds in the canopy, rails and herons in the swamp.
The brief.
MacGregor Point is a year-round Ontario Parks site with day-use and camping; an Ontario Parks day-use permit is required. The Huron Fringe Birding Festival runs each spring and is the year's busiest birding window — book early.
The Tower Trail (3.5 km loop) covers the park interior in roughly 1.5 hours; the Huron Fringe Boardwalk Trail walks Turtle Pond and Ash Swamp at the wetland edge. Offshore, Chantry Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary draws colonial nesting waterbirds — visitor access is by Marine Heritage Society tour only, not by independent landing.
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MacGregor Point Provincial Park
20+ km of marked trails, Tower Trail (3.5 km loop) and Huron Fringe Boardwalk; 200+ recorded bird species; spring Huron Fringe Birding Festival.
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Chantry Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary
Federal MBS roughly 1 km offshore Southampton; colonial nesting waterbirds; visitor access only via Marine Heritage Society tours.
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