Sept. 14 - At the Batavia Waste Water Treatment Plant there were: 2 Eared Grebes, 13 Great Egrets (one with a red band on the left leg with an easily readable code) 31 Lesser Yellowlegs, 1 Greater Yellowlegs, 60 Northern Shovelers, 16 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, 27 Ruddy Ducks, and 6 Northern Pin-tails. At Strawberry Island on the Niagara River between 7:30 and 8:10 I had 12 Great Egrets and then 10 more fly in nearly all from the south for a total of 22 great egrets. Sept. 9 - Along the Canadian North Shore of Lake Erie there were no shorebirds at Rock Point Provincial Park, but there was a Merlin and nine warbler species including Northern Parula, also three species of vireo including Warbling and Philadelphia Vireo. At the sod farm near 424 Feeder Road there were 5 Buff-breasted Sandpipers and 14 Black-bellied Plovers. Best Wishes for Great Birding, Bill Watson
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