All;
1. - No huge number of warblers at one area up here yet, as seems to
be the case at so many places down south (they are already spreading out?)
but one very interesting, other bird must be mentioned: a beautiful, full
plumaged Hudsonian Godwit at the Powassan lagoon, on Monday afternoon. Very
rare up here! It was in the northerly cell. This place can be accessed with
a key, or by skipping over the gate.
The lagoon is west of the 4-lane Hwy 11, just north of the intersection
of the second entrance into Powassan. Powassan is about 30 miles south of
North Bay, which is 3 stoplights north of Toronto. Toronto is ?
Dowitchers, phalaropes and many other shorebirds are findable there now,
also.
2. As to the yellow rails, as usual these are sought in early May along
Wylie Road within Carden Plain, near Kirkfield, east of Orillia. Not sure
what the big deal is. One must just go to the little bridge up Wylie Road,
and there remain 4 yellow rails. They stand upright at the four corners.
They have been there for years. Any other rails seem not to have occurred
there this spring; nor elsewhere in Ontario?
Dick Tafel 705 472-7907
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