Paul Berrigan and I checked the plowed field at Richardson Side Road and Lakeshore Road 308 southwest of Tilbury in Essex County, following up on reports last weekend of large numbers of Golden Plover and 5 Buff-breasted Sandpipers. The Golden Plover was scattered over a wide area on the field and I counted 580 of them, by far the highest count I have ever had of the species in Ontario.
The Buff-breasted Sandpipers were more difficult. Initially we could not find any but eventually I spotted two in flight that landed quite close to us (viewing from Lakeshore Road 308) so we got fine scope views of them. We checked the Tilbury sewage lagoons only to find high water levels and no shorebirds. Cheers, Karl Overman Farmington Hills, Michigan _______________________________________________ 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/
