Hi All,
Just got home from a wedding (been away for 4 days) and managed to sneak out to
the wetlands here in Mitchell just before it got too dark..
Initially, I couldn't find the godwits but did see a couple of nice Baird's
Sandpipers and a Red-necked Phalarope (different I think than the one f
I birded Rattray Marsh & adjacent Lake Ontario from 4:30 to 6:15 pm during
intermittent rain. There were at least 110 Red-necked Grebes feeding well
off-shore mostly south of the marsh outlet. There were some major roller
coming off the fetch of the lake. In spite of limited habitat there was
This afternoon at 5:20 pm in NE winds, Barry Cherriere and I had a juvenile
Long-tailed Jaeger off Hamilton's Van Wagners Beach. The bird was a fair
distance out but was in view for about half an hour as it lazily flew back
and forth in its unique foraging flight, doing frequent stalls and landing
Hell Ontbirders
Spent the morning birding between Shirley's Bay and Britannia. Overall it was
somewhat quiet with few shorebirds. At Shirley's Bay an adult Peregrine was
harassing the few shorebirds along with a Northern Harrier. Still a good number
of Great Egrets 10+ and 2 Caspian Tern. At Bri
This morning there were 9 Buf-breasted Sandpipers at the sod fields near
Beeton. As well there were 30 Baird's Sandpipers, 1 Golden Plover and many
Black-belleid Plovers. On adjacent sideroads were 3 Kestrels.
Most all the plovers ans sandpipers were seen along the 10th line, west of the
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Hi all:
This morning at 10am I had a flock of Canada Geese fly low overhead at
Ottawa Beach (near Andrew Haydon Park in west Ottawa). One of the
geese was all white with black on the trailing edge of the wings. I
did not get my binos up in time to get a look before the flock
disappeared b
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