The ice in Cobourg harbour has almost disappeared today, Monday February 28, but the young King Eider is still present, quite a bit closer to the parking lot as it is now grazing on the west side of the middle pier and resting with a mixed group of diving ducks between the middle pier and the boat launch. You can see the eider and the scaup guzzling nuggets of what, as Doug McRae suggested, looks like zebra mussels they have scraped off the concrete.
2 coots today. 3 White-winged Scoters. Still a few white-winged gulls including 3 adult Iceland and one adult Thayer's. Directions: Take Exit 474 from Hwy.401, south on Division Street to the harbour, drive around to the large west parkinglot. Margaret Bain Cobourg [email protected] _______________________________________________ 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/
