[Ontbirds] Long Point Update - June 6. White-winged Dove, Summer Tanager.

[Stu Mackenzie via ONTBIRDS]

Good afternoon,

The final spring installment of the Long Point Bird Observatory sightings board 
is updated to June 6. 

https://www.bsc-eoc.org/longpoint/index.jsp?targetpg=lpbosight

Highlights for this last week include White-winged Dove, Laughing Gull, 
Mississippi Kite, Summr Tanager, Dickcissel. 

If you enjoyed getting these summaries this spring, please consider showing 
your support for LPBO by sponsoring any of the Cygnus Crusaders in the Great 
Canadian Birdathon! 
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/bird-studies-canada/p2p/birdathon19/team/lpbo-cygnus-crusaders/#members

Visitors should be aware that the New Long Point Provincial Park is closed due 
to flooding, but there are many other places to bird at Long Point. Explore the 
Long Point Birding Trail. Your best source for information about the birds and 
birding sites around Long Point can be found in A Birding Guide to the Long 
Point Area by Ron Ridout, available at the LPBO Shoppe and BSC headquarters. 
Follow LPBO . @LongPointBirdOb on Twitter, @LPBObs on Facebook, or 
@longpointbirds on Instagram.

LPBO's Old Cut Research Station and Visitor Centre is open to the public during 
spring and fall migration (from April to mid-June, and early August to 
mid-November) from 9 a.m. until Noon.

LPBO Bird Alert - Contact me off-list if you'd like to join the Long Point Bird 
Alert Group (requires a mobile phone and WhatsApp) which is the front-line 
communication tool for birds of interest in the Long Point area. Birds of 
provincial significance will also be posted to Ontbirds.
 
Good Birding,
 
Stu
 
Director, Migration Ecology 
Bird Studies Canada
PO Box 160, 115 Front Rd.
Port Rowan, ON. N0E 1M0
Office: 519-586-3531 x 162 | Mobile: 820-6040
smacken...@birdscanada.org



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[Ontbirds] Three egrets, Red Knot in Presqu'ile area

[Doug McRae via ONTBIRDS]

Hi all,

There are 3 species of egrets around Presqu’ile.  

A Snowy Egret was photographed yesterday in the Woodpile Marsh (between High 
Bluff and Pines campground) in Presqu’ile Park.  This morning it was seen from 
Beach 2 feeding in a beach pool to the south (roughly on Beach 3). The beach is 
underwater and rubber boots are essential. There were several Great Egrets 
feeding beside it for handy comparison.

Also a Cattle Egret re-appeared on Huff Rd just outside the park.  The egret is 
usually near the cattle.  Huff Rd runs north-south between Cty Rd 2 and 
Lakeshore Rd on the western outskirts of Brighton.  This is a travelled road 
with no shoulders and active farming operations so please do nothing to disrupt 
traffic or disturb the farm animals or operation.

Beach 2 is the only road access to the beach due to flooding.  As you come out 
on to the beach at Beach 2 there were 7 Ruddy Turnstone and 2 Red Knot feeding 
in the algae mat.  Please try to avoid flushing them as you view them since 
there is just a narrow strip they can feed on.

Directions: Presqu’ile Provincial Park is located on the north shore of Lake 
Ontario, just south of the town of Brighton.  It can be reached from either 
Hwy. 401, or Cty. Rd. 2 and is well signed.  A Park map can be found in the 
information tabloid available at the Park gate.  Presqu’ile’s two offshore 
islands – Gull and High Bluff – support a large multi-species colonial bird 
nesting area and access is not permitted during the breeding season (10 
March-10 September).

 

Cheers

Doug

Doug McRae
P.O. Box 3010
Brighton, Ontario
K0K 1H0
613-475-5014 H
613-243-4161 C


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