The following shorebirds were present around 4 P.M. today, until a large Cooper's Hawk scared most of them away: -1 Red Knot, juv. -4 Pectoral Sandpipers -3 Baird's Sandpipers, juv. -1 Short-billed Dowitcher, juv. -about 10 Semipalmated Sandpipers -about 20 Least Sandpipers -4 Lesser Yellowlegs, juv. -2 Spotted Sandpipers, juv. -2 Semipalmated Plovers Mark Kubisz, Scarborough, ON Directions: Exit 401 at White's Road and go south to Bayly then east until you see the Gingerbread Daycare Centre (a low brown building all by itself in a large parking lot) on your right (there is a sign for it on Bayly St.). Park in their parking lot and walk east from the SE edge of the parking lot and follow the trail to the marsh then cross the creek to the mud flats where the creek meets Frenchman's Bay. Boots required.
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