Hello Ontbirders, My apologies for the angst this may cause on Christmas day. I escaped a family gathering for 3 hours this afternoon and birded the Niagara River. I watched an adult Slaty-backed Gull above Niagara Falls from 2:50 to 3:55 pm. Park at the Greenhouse above the falls and walk across the road to the river. The bird was sitting just east of the old power building, about 200 m out. The river was very good overall today. There were 2 adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls in the same location, another just upriver at the hydro diversion and a first winter at Sir Adam Beck. Also at Adam Beck were 12++ Iceland Gulls, 3 Thayer's Gulls (1st winter, 2nd winter and adult), the California Gull and 2 Glaucous Gulls. There was 1 Little Gull at Niagara on the Lake at flyby (with 510 Bonaparte's Gulls and over 5100 Long-tailed Ducks) - between 4:15 and 5:00 pm.
I got decent digiscope photos and video of the SBGU which will be submitted to OBRC. Jeff Jeff Skevington, Research Scientist Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada K.W. Neatby Building, C.E.F., 960 Carling Ave. Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6, Canada _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
