Hello Ont Birders.
This evening while checking to see if
the MERLINS were hunting, the sun shone brightly on the reef at Kettle Point.
The light was brilliant and in fifteen minutes the following were
seen and worth noting.
1 RED-TROATED LOON, 1 juv. LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, 1 ad. and 1
juv. LITTLE GULL. 1+imm. SABINES GULLS, 1 imm. KITTYWAKE, and best
for me 2 juv. SABINES GULLS.
There were also three different phased PARASITIC JAEGER and perhaps a
second intermediate type. Also a single ad. POMARINE JAEGER. Also two
Gt. SCAUP.
Just like the old days with a N.W. wind that many will remember?
A local BALD EAGLE flew to within 15 meters of me while I was talking
on the phone.
Kettle Point is a Reserve. Safe to visit.
It is a rectangle of four square miles, turned at 45 degrees to the
shoreline that sticks out into Lake Huron, about 20 miles SW of Grand
Bend and about 30 from Sarnia on Highway 21
in Lambton County.
In the morning it is better to drive anti-clockwise around using
the beach at first, to keep the sun behind you.
Good Birding.
Alf.
Alf Rider.
RR2 FOREST.
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