Late Saturday afternoon I went to check out Reesor Pond after dropping
off one
of my kids at a birthday party not far away. While scanning the
shorelines and
sandbars I discovered a single adult Hudsonian Godwit among several
Lesser and
Greater Yellowlegs. The Godwit put to flight 2 times with some
yellowlegs and its
black underwings and white rump/tail feathers were very obvious. Its
black legs
and 2 coloured upturned beek were also very clear when it resettled on
the end of
the south east side sand spit. I viewed the godwit for over a half
hour from about
5:15 pm to 5:45 pm. When some noisy gulls attempted to land beside the
godwit
it took to flight for a 3rd time with someof the yellowlegs and
Killdeers. They circled
a couple of times but rose higher into the sky and headed off to the
southwest. Soon
most of the other yellowlegs took to flight as well ( by 6 pm) from
around the pond also
heading to the southwest. By 6 pm what remained was 1 Black-bellied
plover, 3 Killdeers
and 2 yellowlegs on the north west side sand spit.
In all I counted 6 killdeers, 6 Lesser Yellowlegs, 4 Greater Yellowlegs,
1 Black-bellied
Plover and 1 Hudsonian Godwit.
There were also 2 Ruddy ducks, 5 Great Blue Herons, 1 Great Egret and 8
mergansers
( they looked like juv./female Hooded Mergansers- very dark and smaller
than RBM or
CM.
Cheers,
Sigi
Aurora, On
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