https://www.google.ca/maps/place/177+Downey+Rd,+Lowbanks,+ON+N0A+1K0/@42.8565054,-79.5563506,14.44z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x882cd01d5fd5deaf:0x5875bf837abdc6f3!8m2!3d42.8558488!4d-79.5477104 Hi folks: Today while scouting for the OFO bird walk (this coming Saturday Sept 23rd at 8 am from Rock Point PP), we found some interesting shorebirds. If you are participating at this Saturday OFO birds outing at ROCK Point PP. { see map above for meeting at 8 am!} Please read all these instructions: 1) Ensure you have registered for the OFO's AGM at Long point Provincial Park this weekend; and, on Saturday Morning ( by 8 am) meet at the Entrance to Rock Point PP. Please...Please stay on Downey Rd. Do Not enter the PP before you are given instructions. 2) It is an all day Field trip with the following possible ITINERARY.. a) Rock Point PP ( from 8 to 10 am ) a walk of some 2-3 km. It will be HOT, bring water. b) Port Maitland - Feeder Canal Rd and Mosaic ( from 10 to 11 am). Because of safety concerns (( Hard Hats, Safety Glasses, Emergency jackets cannot be provided for 45 people that have signed up for this outing!; so we will do our best to see the birds here.)) c) Hutchinson Rd/ Poth Rd... Sod farms ( from 11 to 11:50 am) NB: we may be able to squeeze a visit to the Quarry lagoons on Quarry Rd, near Port Colborne. d) Drive to Jarvis for a lunch break ( you are encouraged to bring your own lunch with plenty of water; although, there are many eateries in Jarvis ) from 12:15 to 1 pm e) After Lunch, we will visit Townsend Sewage Lagoons and surroundings, from 1:15 to 3 pm Afterwards everyone goes to AGM activities at LPBO, or go home! Birds seen today... ( very few passerines, woods are very quite...It Is HOT!) 1- One Red Knot and 9 BB Plovers at the shoreline in Rock Point PP ( also Spotted Sandpiper & Killdeer, of course [ there was NO SIGN of the reported Summer Tanager today! ] here is the ebird list for our brief Rock PP visit http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S39318262 2) Two White-rumped Sandpipers, with Least & Semipalmated Sandpipers, & Greater + Lesser Yellow-legs, 3 Bald eagles, 3 Great Egrets, 3 Green Herons, an American Pipit, etc.. at the Mosaic Ponds here is the ebird list for the Mosaic & Port Maitland area http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S39318033 3- Three Golden Plovers, one BB Plover, etc. etc. at the SOD farms on Hutchinson Rd/Poth Rd here is the ebird list for the Sod farms http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S39317772 AND... most importantly, If you are an ebird lister and will participate on Saturday, please send me your ebird email, so that I can share this Saturday observations with you. We do not want 45 to 50 different ebird lists for the same time and place. You can add or delete your own bird observations to what I shall submit. my email is : [email protected] you on Saturday. The other Co-leaders for this outing will be: John Black, Dan Salisbury, and Marcie Jacklin CheersLuc Fazio _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide Visit the OFO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists
