Good evening, The Long Point Bird Observatory sightings board is updated to May 16 https://birdscanada.org/longpoint/index.jsp?targetpg=lpbosight. Highlights for this last week include Buff-breasted Sandpiper (1st spring record), Arctic Tern, Fish Crow, Harris’s Sparrow, Lark Sparrow, Kirtland’s Warbler, and Eurasian Tree Sparrow.
If you enjoy these updates and wish to support the research, education and conservation programs of LPBO, please consider sponsoring 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. Visitors are always welcome. Daily birding hikes depart the Old Cut Research Station one hour after sunrise, and banding demonstrations occur all morning until May 30. 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 ____________________ _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide Visit the OFO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists
