The adult Little Blue Heron continues to be seen intermittently at Cranberry Marsh in Whitby. It was seen at 10.30am by Andrew Keaveney and at 1.25pm by myself. The glacial gales of this morning have mellowed a bit but it is still very cold and windy at the marsh and the heron is sheltering in the shallow channels of water west of the central alder scrub. There is no easy way to get a good view of it but it does fly up out of the marsh occasionally and the best place to be is still probably the south viewing platform. However, when I saw it I was at the north platform, trying to see if I could get a line of sight to where it was last seen, which I couldn't, but suddenly it flew up from among the cattails and shone indigo against the alders in a rare ray of sunshine before droppping back into the marsh. So patience and luck are necessary, but as the wind moderates it may come out into the open again.
Directions: Take Brock Street, Exit 410 from Hwy 401 in Whitby, and go south to Victoria Street. Turn right on Victoria Street, go west to Halls Road, then south to the viewing platform nearest the lake. >From Toronto you could exit at Salem Road, Exit 404, go south to Bayly Street which becomes Victoria Street in Whitby, and drive east to Halls Road. Margaret Bain cobourg [email protected] _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
