Hi folks I walked the shoreline in the area the Avocet was seen this morning without any luck. I did see 4 Shovellers and 1 Palm Warbler and 1 Common Yellowthroat though.
Regards Marcie Jacklin ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of [email protected] [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 5:14 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [Ontbirds] Fort Erie Advocet, Niagara Falls Great Egrets Peter Yeorg just called at 4:45 PM that he has an American Avocet at Kraft Road in Fort Erie. Kraft Road goes south from east end of Dominion Road. (Dominion Road runs parallel to the north shore of Lake Erie.) Walk toward Lake Erie and west about a couple hundred yard. When he got to the open area past the woods he spotted the American Avocet with a group of gulls. At the small islands above the Canadian Falls at Niagara Falls at 9:55 AM there were no Great Egrets, but at 10:07 a single Great Egret appeared at the largest island were most of the Black-crowned Night-Herons and Double-crested Cormorants nest. At 10:10 AM two more Great Egrets appeared and there was a flurry of feeding and bill grabbing and pulling activity. At 10:12 the egret that provided the food left the island and was quickly pursued by the two fledgling egrets. It appears that all of the nestling Great Egrets have fledged. Also above the Canadian Falls were four Common Mergansers. There were 22 Double-crested Cormorants still on the island three at nests. Between 9:55 and 10:39 there was one episode of cormorant feeding activity. At the south end of Goat Island there was one Wilson's Warbler, four Magnolia Warblers, one Black-thr. Green Warbler and an American Redstart. Best Wishes for Great Birding, Bill Watson _______________________________________________ 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
