Hi y'all,
I started a bit late this morning(~10:30 am) at GB beach) with Red
throated and Common Loon, ~10 Horned Grebe on very smooth water making for easy
viewing.Then ended late(~6:30pm) at GB lagoons with 6 Sandhill Crane flying
directly over and seemingly landing just SW of there(possibly we'll find these
to-morrow morning. Lots of waterfowl including Redhead, L. Scaup, Bufflehead,
N. Shoveller, Green-winged Teal, Am.Coot and one each of Dunlin and Gr.
Yellowlegs.
I did not find many 'dickie' birds in the Pinery nor elsewhere all day
but had a juvenile Red-headed Woodpecker on the Heritage trail and at least 5
Rusty Blackbird with a flock of ~30 Red-winged BB at Hwy #21 and Outer Drive.
The VC is still under renovations and the feeders were quite quiet - 1 Tufted
Titmouse, 1 White-breasted Nuthatch, 2 Black-capped Chickadee and 1 Dark-eyed
Junco. Both adult Bald eagles were at their nest, a Belted Kingfisher perched
nearby whilst 6 Red-tailed Hawk soared overhead.
At Kettle Point/Ipperwash Beach I counted 40+ Black-bellied Plover, 7/8
smaller shorebirds in the rocks at the base of the point. I had 1 Dunlin for
sure, but the others were hunkered down, looked browner but I could not get a
better view to be certain of I.D. Thedford SL still had at least 1 Pied-billed
Grebe along with 2 Canvasback, lots of Gadwall and several Am. Wigeon.
Weather looks nice to-morrow with a cool start of 3/4 degrees and S/SW
winds picking up during the day up to ~25 kph by afternoon but temperature
climbing to ~10 degrees.
Hope to see you to-morrow @8:30 am Sobey's parking lot - if I'm late
it's because Hydro has advised us of a "planned' 4 hour interruption of
service. Cheers! Maris
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