Hello Ontbirders, Today, James Holdsworth, Richard Skevington and I birded Grand Bend Sewage Lagoons and Kettle Point. Highlights at the lagoons included 2 Hudsonian Gowits and 1 Long-billed Dowitcher. Other birds of interest included: 9 White-rumped Sandpipers, 50 American Golden Plovers, 70 Black-bellied Plovers, 2 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 2 Orange-crowned Warblers, 10 Fox Sparrows, 25 Lapland Longspurs and 100 Rusty Blackbirds.
Highlights at Kettle Point included 2 close Long-tailed Jaegers, 2 close Parasitic Jaegers, 5 distant jaegers, 1 Little Gull, 3 Surf Scoters, 30 White-winged Scoters and 1 Black Scoter. Kettle Point is south of Grand Bend and Pinery Provincial Park or North of Forest on Highway 21. Follow the road around the reserve until you arrive at a sharp corner with a reef stretching 1km out into Lake Huron (NW corner of the point). To get to Grand Bend Sewage Lagoons from the main intersection in Grand Bend, turn east onto 81/Main Street East, head past the Sobey's, and take the first road on your right - Mollard Line. Take Mollard Line about 2km and the lagoons are on your right (west). Good birding, Jeff -- Jeff Skevington, Research Scientist Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada 960 Carling Avenue, K.W. Neatby Building Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6, Canada E-mail: [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/
