[Ontbirds] Port Dover sandhill cranes

2015-08-17 Thread Dave Bailey
This evening at approximately 6:45, while doing some photography in Port Dover (I was at GPS 42.798857, -80.213760, just north of Prospect Street), a flock of sandhill cranes flew over at low altitude, traveling in a westerly direction. They were mostly obscured by trees above me, but

[Ontbirds] Black-bellied Plovers; American Golden-plover Buff-breasted Sandpipers ne of Beeton, ON

2015-08-17 Thread Wayne Renaud
Today I spent three hours birding the rectangle from Tottenham Road west-east to 15 Side Road and south-north 9th to 12th LInes. The birding was slim until I found a large cluster of gulls and shorebirds on mostly stripped sodded field se of the intersection of 12th line and 15 sideroad. The GPS