Sorry for the delay with this post. Tuesday morning between 9-10:00 am, I observed both male and female piping plovers at the eastern edge of Beach area 1 at Wasaga Beach. There had been some concern for the female, as she had not been seen for a few days. The male was enticing her with all of the displays of mating. In fact, mating did take place within 20-30 ft of the snow fence that's been set up to protect this endangered bird. What a sight to see. There will no doubt be concerns for their well being, along with their young, given that the area chosen for nesting is within the busiest of beach areas. Nancy Murphy Barrie, Ontario Wasaga Beach can be reached by going west out of Elmvale on Hwy 92. Follow into Main St., turn right and follow to main beach area, just over the bridge, turn right and park in Beach 1 parking area. Walk down to the beach and you will see the snow fenced area with signs posted. There were reports of MNR and OFO staff present, although there was no one there at the time of my visit.
Nancy Murphy From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jun 2 09:54:13 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from cathy.bmts.com (cathy.bmts.com [216.183.128.202]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 400796441E for <[email protected]>; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:54:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from yourzekho33gl4 (cheetah-tiv-ppp795.bmts.com [216.183.134.17]) by cathy.bmts.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id j52E8XWn013045 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:08:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Ralph Knowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ontbirds" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:12:33 -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 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Subject: [Ontbirds]Kincardine: Little Blue Heron X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 13:54:13 -0000 Today a LITTLE BLUE HERON was spotted in Kincardine feeding close to the shore. It stayed in the area until about 10:00am and then left and flew north. Pictures were taken and will be posted on the OFO web site. The bird was observed along the Lake Huron shore just off Saugeen Street south of Kingsway Street. In the event that the bird returns, one can reach this location by taking Broadway Street west off highway 21 in Kincardine to Saugeen Street. Ralph Knowles Kincardine 519-396-5580 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
