Hi all, I was seeing a good variety of new birds at my feeders and in the yard to-day(including 1 Chipping and 1 White-throated Sparrow, 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet and 1 female Yellow-rumped Warbler plus 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers) so decided to drive around the block this afternoon when the rain showers eased off.
Along Mollard Line we saw 2 Vesper Sparrow ~2km apart and the on Army Camp Road opposite the campground a mixed flock of ~6/7 Savannah and 3/4 Vesper Sparrow - darting along the fenceline, in and out of cover. The swans were located in the shallow water opposite Bressettes(the partly flooded) cut area at ~17:30 hrs. There were 8 adult birds and the rest had varying amounts of gray in their neckfeathers. I scoped them well but could discern no yellow tags so familiar to me. On our way to Grog's at Northville for the 'Wednesday all you can eat Mussels' - I spotted a Greater Yellowlegs in a roadside wet patch just north of Outer Drive and when we stopped I saw 1 Spotted Sandpiper and eventually found 8 Wilson's Snipe. Earlier we had seen 1 Pied-billed Grebe at "L' Lake on our way to K.P. A few nice surprises and 2 plates of Jalepeno Tequilla Mussels - L.I.G. Cheers! Maris Maris Apse 10094 Red Pine Road, Box 22, RR #2 Grand Bend ON N0M 1T0 (519) 238 - 8415 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail & Messenger are available on your phone. Try now. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9724461_______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list ONTBIRDS@hwcn.org For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/