Seen on Friday. Directions by Gavin Platt are near the bottom. Good birding! Willie
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Johnson Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 8:22 PM To: Willie D'Anna and Betsy Potter Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] FW: [Ontbirds] Juvenile Curlew Sandpiper - Fort Erie Willie, Shawn Billerman and I saw the Curlew Sandpiper this morning, as well as a Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow in the tall (but fairly isolated) vegetation below Adelaide St. There were also 3 Black-bellied Plover and 1 Greater Yellowlegs at the site, as well as a nice morning passerine flight including many cowbirds, Yellow-rumped and Palm Warblers, and Pine Siskin. 1 Eared Grebe was in the NW corner of the Batavia WWTP on our way back to Ithaca. Flight photos of the CUSA here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonxie88/ Best, Tom ---- Thomas Brodie Johnson Ithaca, NY [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Willie D'Anna and Betsy Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forwarding from Ontbirds... This bird has been here for two weeks! > Willie > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Gavin Platt > Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 4:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Ontbirds]Curlew Sandpiper - Fort Erie > > Hi, > > The Curlew Sandpiper was still at Jaeger Rocks in Fort Erie at 4:30 pm > today. It was on the shoreline across from house #550. The only other > shorebirds present were 2 Dunlin, with which it was loosely > associating, and several Killdeer. > > Directions: Follow the QEW towards Buffalo,USA. Take the Central Ave > Exit as it is the final exit before the USA. Then you want to take a > right on Central Ave, then a right onto Lakeshore Rd. When your > driving along Lakeshore Rd. you will pass the Old Fort Erie historic site on the right. > Just a little past this point on the left you will see a rocky > shoreline and this is where the Curlew Sandpiper is being seen. > Parking is tight on Lakeshore Rd, so parking on the sideroads is suggested (Adelaide). > > Gavin Platt > Toronto, ON > _________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdssetup.php ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdsguide.php
