After I met up with you and your group, I went to the exact location (by the 15 foot tall cylinder block sculpture just west of East Cove) just 10 minutes afterwards and found a breeding plumage Horned Grebe diving about 40 feet offshore. I scanned the entire south shoreline and this was the only grebe I encountered. Perhaps the “Eared” Grebe left shortly after the 6 from your group saw it, but I think that perhaps it could have been a mis-ID.
-Owen Strickland
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From: John Carley via ONTBIRDS <[email protected]>
Date: April 22, 2017 at 5:07 PM
> Today, on the Annual TOC Leslie Street Spit Jim Baillie Memorial Birdwalk, one group of six observers who took different route north from the lighthouse (sigh) spotted a breeding plumage Eared Grebe actively diving in the lake off the shoreline of The Flats. This shoreline is west of East Cove and Pipit Point.
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> The rest of us were content with 65 other species, including one Lesser Yellowlegs at Cell 2, King Eiders at great distance west of the Lighthouse point, Ruddy Ducks in Cell 3, and the usual early migrants in the Wet Woods, including Fox Sparrow, and Pine Warbler.
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> cheers,
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> John Carley , co-leader along with Garth Riley and Bob Cumming
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