Given today's bleak weather I thought this post may be timely...yesterday I had some work close to Long Point in the morning and then afterwards I quickly motored over to Long Point, checking out the causeway and the new Long Point Provincial Park in particular.
A lot of migrants came in Friday, in particular sparrows, with several highlights being the following: - male 'Pink-sided' Dark-eyed Junco with a large flock of Slate-colored's at 70 Beach Blvd. (essentially south of Old Cut). No photos; slam-dunk male. - male 'Cassiar' Dark-eyed Junco with a flock of Slate-colored's in the provincial park 6 Yellow-rumped Warblers 1 Pine Warbler 6 Ruby-crowned Kinglets 23 E. Phoebe's Multiples of Chipping, Field, Savannah, Vesper, and Fox Sparrows and Eastern Towhees, Hermit Thrush, and good numbers of swallows, including:5-10 Purple Martins and Barn Swallows. Inner Bay was absolutely jammed with Horned Grebe's. In one scan I counted 120+ (no Eared's though). Quite a number of Forster's Terns. To see some pics, click on my eBird checklist: https://ebird.org/canada/view/checklist/S44531480 Great birding! Ken Burrell kenneth.gd.burr...@gmail.com http://burrellbirding.ca/ _______________________________________________ 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
