Many thanks to Peter Wukasch for finding and posting about this species yesterday and to Kevin Shackleton for posting that it was still there this morning. After missing the ones at Hillman Marsh and Reesor Pond over the past week, I was relieved to get this bird for breakfast at 8:00 a.m. Great to see the species that Kevin McLaughlin of Hamilton wryly calls "The Garbled Mudwit".
Also present in the ephemeral pond on the west side of Hwy. 27 (approx. 1.5 km north of Hwy. 9, Schomberg) were three Semipalmated Plovers, two Lesser Yellowlegs, four Dunlin, and six Least Sandpipers (at least when I was there). Schomberg is west of Hwy. 400 not far from the Holland Marsh vegetable fields, about halfway between Toronto and Barrie. Ron Fleming, Newmarket _______________________________________________ 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/
