As nine of us checked various locations where a variety of shorebirds had been seen three days earlier (foot of Stonemill Road, Prospect Point Road, Morgan's Point) it became evident that many of those birds had probably taken advantage of yesterday's brisk north winds to head further south. However, Rock Point Provincial Park provided good numbers of Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers, 2 Sanderlings, 2 Short-billed Dowitchers still in breeding plumage, several each of Semiplamated Plovers, Lesser Yellowlegs and Spotted Sandpipers and lots of Killdeers. There were also good numbers of Caspian Terns, Bonaparte's Gulls (many with their black hoods in place) and a few Common Terns at both Rock Point and Morgan's Point, where three early Common Mergansers flew in. No plovers at the sod farms but Jim Pawlicki did hear Horned Larks. Just east of Rock Point we finally viewed the Cattle Egret looking south from Rymer Road, a couple of fields east of King (the north south road just east of the bend in regional road 3). Thanks to Kayo Roy, who we talked with at Rock Point, for giving us the confidence that it was still there!
Mike Hamilton
