Boxing Day Birders (as apposed to shoppers), In Port Burwell Provincial Park today, December 26th, 2011:
One Snowy Owl perched on the rock breakwater about ⅔ of the way out. Scope will help, but binoculars will work. Several Common and Red-breasted Mergansers in the water nearby and at the end of the breakwater - scope needed. One Purple Sandpiper on the beach shoreline just west of the rock breakwater feeding in the debris of shells. No bins needed for this one! In parking lots #1 and #2, a flock of about 12 Eastern Bluebirds. Good birding, Joe Stephenson Port Burwell as at the southern end of Hwy #19/Planck Road on Lake Erie, south of Ingersoll and Tillsonburg. _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
