Mitchell Sewage Lagoons (now properly called West Perth Wetlands) have a
good variety of shorebirds that can be well seen from the trails around the
5 lagoons. Today I saw
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
Other birds seen included Black-billed Cuckoo, Great Blue Heron, Belted
Kingfisher, Cliff and Barn Swallow, Song and Savannah Sparrow, Turkey
Vulture, House Wren, Wood Duck, Hooded Merganser, Indigo Bunting, Common
Yellowthroat, and Northern Flicker.
The lagoons are on the south edge of Mitchell. From Hwy 8 turn south on
Wellington Street and go 1.6 km. The parking lot is at the back of the
ballfield.
Steve Thorpe
Stratford
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