My apologies if this becomes a double posting. I tired sending to Ontbirds from another email address this morning and it has not gotten through to this point.
We have had our largest ever movement of Cave Swallows here at Long Point over the past 24 hours. Numbers counted last night started with 10 at the Tip of Long Point and three at our Old Cut station. The last number that heard from the Tip today was 24 from earlier this morning. The count at Old Cut to this point in the day (4 pm) is just under 100 birds (all flying west into the wind). It was a very wild morning of migrants here at the BSC office in Port Rowan. While I only managed to see one Cave Swallow fly by the window, there was also a flyby Cattle Egret, 10 dowitchers (likely Long-billeds), 4 Bald Eagles, 1 Osprey as well as a large migration of passerines involving thousands of Am. Robins, Cedar Waxwings, Yellow-rumped Warblers, Am. Goldfinches, Eur. Starlings, along with some Purple Finches and Pine Siskins. Ducks and gulls in our corner of Long Point Inner Bay number in the tens of thousands today as they take shelter from the west wind. Great fun! Hard to know if the Cave Swallow movement will continue through tomorrow but given the numbers today it very well might to a lesser degree. _______________________________________________ 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/
