May 24 - Starting at Rock Point Provencal Park (which is 30 miles east of Fort Erie, Ontario, and Buffalo, NY, at the source of the Niagara River) and working along the North Shore of Lake Erie back to Fort Erie the following birds were observed: Rock Point P. P. EURASIAN WIGEON (paired with an American Wigeon) 41 Dunlin 6 Ruddy Turnstone 18 Semipalmated Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper 80 Bonaparte's Gulls 1,100 Double-crested Cormorants about 900 Barn Swallows, 700 Tree Swallows, and 300 N. Rough-winged Swallows 2 Common Mergansers 18 Red-breasted Mergansers Making a short detour form Rock Poit going north on Downy Rd. 2 Km and turning left on Rhymer Road about 1 KM to Mosaic Ponds 2 Semipalmated Plovers, 6 Semipalmated Sandpipers, a large Swan I identified as a TRUMPETER SWAN, Green-winged Teal, a pair of Blue-winged Teal Long Beach CA 8 Dunlin 12 Semipalmated Plover 14 Whimbrel 2 Short-billed Dowitcher 5 Caspian Tern At Grabiel Point 3 Ruddy Turnstones Morgan's Point 83 Dunlin 3 White-rumped Sandpipers 6 Semipalmated Sandpipers 8 Whimbrel Stonemill Road (in western Fort Erie) 5 Gadwall Kraft Road (in easter Fort Erie) 9 Whimbrel 2 Common Mergansers Ruddy Turnstone Best Wishes for Great Birding, Bill Watson _______________________________________________ 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/
