Fellow Birders, This posting is on behalf of John Ralston (OMNR field staff) who is working in White River this week. He wishes to make a correction to yesterdays posting of Wilson's Phalarope in White River...after examining photos that he took on Wednesday (August 16th)
The photos were digiscoped through 10X binos and are not the greatest but show enough detail to discount Wilson's Phalarope. John and I have agreed that the bird, in question, is actually a Red-necked Phalarope in juvenile plumage. White River is situated about 4 hours north of Sault Ste. Marie along Highway 17 north. The Sewage Lagoons are located along a gravel/sand utility road, 1 km south-west of the OPP office (at the Corner of Hwy 17 and Hwy 631) and 0.5 km north-east of the arena (along Winnepig Street south) in White River. John and I apologize for the mix-up. Ken McIlwrick Sault Ste. Marie, ON _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdshow.htm ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 18 12:08:46 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts5.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.25]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC05864181 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:08:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from trentu.ca ([216.208.194.88]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:08:46 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:08:44 -0400 From: Fred Helleiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [email protected] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0544-0, 10/31/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Subject: [Ontbirds]Western Sandpiper @ Presqu'ile. X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:08:46 -0000 Don Shanahan and I saw an adult Western Sandpiper at Owen Point in Presqu'ile Provincial Park this morning (Aug. 18). It was still there at 1015h. Owen Point is in the southwest corner of the Park. The Park can be reached by following the signs from Brighton. -- -- 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.
