Hello Ontbirders,
At 1:00 p.m. today, 17 October, at Sobeys Pond in Whitby, there was one
Cackling Goose (Branta hutchinsii hutchinsii) among the Canadas.
Photo here: http://www.jeaniron.ca/Geese/whitbycacklinggoose.htm
Directions: South on Brock Street in Whitby (not Brock Road in Pickering)
to Victoria, right on Victoria to Gordon; right on Gordon (opposite road to
Whitby Memorial Hospital), then left on Nordeagle. The pond is on the north
side opposite Sobeys warehouse.
At 2:00 p.m. today, the juvenile Hudsonian Godwit was at the south end of
Corner Marsh on the mudflats just north of the bridge. Other shorebirds:
juvenile Black-bellied Plover, juvenile White-rumped Sandpiper, juvenile
Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, first basic Dunlin, juvenile Pectoral
Sandpipers.
Directions: From Bayly Street east of Brock Road in Pickering, take Squires
Beach Road south to Jodrel, left on Jodrel then left again on Park Road to
Frisco Road. Park at the very end and walk east on the Waterfront Trail
about 200 metres to the bridge to view the extensive mudflats on the north
side.
Good birding,
Jean Iron and Ron Pittaway
Jean Iron
9 Lichen Place
Toronto ON M3A 1X3
416-445-9297
www.jeaniron.ca
