As a follow-up to this note, I dropped into the park by chance around 7pm yesterday (Sunday July 25), coming home from a cottage, and besides the 20 or so mosquito bites along the Owen Point trail, I had the American White Pelican on the shore of High Bluff Island, on the right side of the point (north?) looking from Lookout #2 & #3, it was standing amongst some Cormorants with it's bill tucked into it's back (you would definitely need a scope to see this bird). Also feeding along the shore of Owen Pt (around lookout #3) was a Great Egret, nearer the point I had very few shorebirds including 2 Semipalmated Plover, 5 Semipalm. Sandpiper & 4 Least Sandpiper plus 3 or 4 Spotted Sandpipers, also a Black-crowned Night-Heron flying over.
Please see directions in Fred's note attached below. Regards & good birding, Frank Pinilla Thornhill, ON ============================================================ From: Fred Helleiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2004/07/25 Sun PM 12:32:09 EST To: [email protected] Subject: [Ontbirds]American White Pelican @ Presqu'ile At 10:30 Sunday morning an American White Pelican was swimming between Gull Island and Sebastopol Island at Presqu'ile Provincial Park. An hour later it was sitting on Gull Island (visible from lookout #2 on the Owen Point trail) but soon disappeared behind some vegetation. Shortly after 12:00h. it had not re-appeared. > To reach Presqu'ile Provincial Park, follow the signs from Brighton. > Locations within the Park are shown on a map at the back of a tabloid > that is available at the Park gate. Access to the offshore islands is > restricted at this time of year to prevent disturbance to the colonial > nesting birds there. -- Fred Helleiner 186 Bayshore Road, R.R. #4, Brighton, Ontario, Canada, K0K 1H0 VOICE: (613) 475 5309 If visiting, access via Presqu'ile Provincial Park. _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] To join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://mailman.hwcn.org/mailman/listinfo/ontbirds ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm ============================================================
