Thirty-four participants met at the parking lot at Lynde Shores Conservation Area at 7:30 AM. We walked through the Lynde Shores woodlot and traveled down to Cranberry Marsh.
We saw a few warblers on the way there - American Redstart, Yellow, Tennessee, Magnolia, Nashville, and Black-and-White. We had a few shorebirds on a very small mudflat area - Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Short-billed Dowitcher, Semipalmated Plover, and Killdeer. At Second Marsh, we had Black, Caspian and Common Terns, Bonaparte's, Ring-billed and Herring Gulls, American Coot, Common Moorhen, Green, Great Blue and Black-crowned Night Herons. We stopped for lunch on the Darlington Nuclear Station property but there was nothing of note in the small wetlands. We finished at the Samuel Wilmot Wetlands south of Newcastle where we found our last shorebird - a Spotted Sandpiper, and the best bird of the day - an Olive-sided Flycatcher. All in all, we had 77 species for the day (despite having virtually no shorebird habitat) plus 13 butterfly species and 7 dragonfly/damselfly species. _______________________________________________ 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/information/ontbirdssetup.php ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdsguide.php
