I spent some time at the lagoons this morning and was surprised by the lack of shorebirds. The second & fourth ponds are still quite low and have good shorebird habitat whereas the other 2 ponds are very full. The third pond had 75+ Bonaparte’s gulls in it.
The only shorebirds I saw were ~25 L. Yellowlegs, ~15 Least Sandpipers, 1 Stilt Sandpiper, 1 Killdeer & 1 Spotted Sandpiper. There was also a Pileated Woodpecker in the south woods. Dave Worthington HYPERLINK "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED] Directions as per Ron Pittaway: Please read carefully. About 50 km north of Toronto. From Highway 401 go north on 404 to Green Lane (last exit). Go west on Green Lane to 6th traffic light. Turn right on Yonge St. and go about 1 km and exit to Holland Landing Road. Follow winding road (no turns) through Holland Landing for 5.6 km. Turn right on Cedar St. to lagoons. If you get to Queensville Side Road you've gone about 1 km past Cedar St. Do not block locked entrance to lagoons. Also do not climb the new gate. Last year the old gate was broken off its hinges because people climbed it. Go to small opening at left of gate to old road. Walk 15 steps to first orange stake. Walk short distance past large white pine to lagoon road. Wear long pants because of poison ivy. Last summer I met York Region staff at the lagoons several times. Good behaviour will ensure access continues. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.0/958 - Release Date: 8/17/2007 2:31 PM From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 17 19:34:21 2007 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: ontbirds@hwcn.org Received: from nicole.bmts.com (nicole.bmts.com [216.183.128.225]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FB2963480 for <ONTBIRDS@hwcn.org>; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:34:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Turlands (cheetah-tiv-ve3000-126-0039.bmts.com [209.240.126.39]) by nicole.bmts.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id l7HNYKPV019053 for <ONTBIRDS@hwcn.org>; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:34:20 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "James Turland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <ONTBIRDS@hwcn.org> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:34:47 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Bruce Telecom 519.368.2000 for more information X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No Subject: [Ontbirds]red necked phalarope X-BeenThere: ontbirds@hwcn.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:34:21 -0000 james turland reporting On a road trip to long point my son simon and I made a wrong turn in a small town called mitchell and ended up at the community wetlands.Lucky for us for what a birder friendly lagoon site.There were plenty of shore birds that are easily viewed.The edges are covered in weeds and so there are sparrows, blackbirds and plenty of other incidentals.The highlight was the red necked phalaropes.The two phalaropes have been there since wednesday.
