An e-mail from Don Wiens on Thursday informed me of two Stilt Sandpipers at the Holland Landing lagoons. I got up there this afternoon and was rewarded with excellent scope views of four juvenile Stilts at the northern end of the second lagoon and, upon circling back to that cell later on, marvelous looks at a juvenile Baird's Sandpiper in the company of ten Least Sandpipers and three Semipals at the south end. Also present in the second cell were about two dozen Lesser Yellowlegs, one Solitary Sandpiper, three Spotties, five Killdeer, and two Pectoral Sandpipers. There are still hundreds of ducks at the lagoons, the vast majority being Blue-winged Teal (perhaps 300-400) but there are also many Green-winged Teal, at least a dozen Northern Shovelers, several Wood Ducks, Black Ducks, and numerous Mallards. Interesting fly-bys today included two Pileated Woodpeckers, a Belted Kingfisher, and one Cooper's Hawk. A little further north and east of this location, a wet stretch of field along Keswick's Ravenshoe Road (east of Woodbine) hosted several Great Egrets this week. Keith Dunn, Michele Potter and Linda Wells all reported these welcome visitors. Holland Landing and Keswick are in York Region, north of Toronto, south of Lake Simcoe. The HL lagoons are at the end of Cedar Avenue, which runs east from Yonge Street, about two kms south of the Queensville Sdrd. Ron Fleming _______________________________________________ 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
