An adult Little Blue Heron was sitting along the water's edge below the
Great Egret roost site in the woods north of the bridge at Wheatley
Harbor this afternoon at 1:00 p.m.. possibly the same bird that was
reported at Hillman a day or two ago.
At least 1270 Black-bellied Plovers were in 11 different "plover
fields" between Wheatley Harbor and Merlin Road along Talbot Line [Hwy
3] in southwest Chatham-Kent. Ruddy Turnstones numbered only 20 with 3
along the east beach at Wheatley harbor and 9 in one of the
Black-bellied Plover flocks. A couple of birders who stopped to talk to
us as we were scanning fields for plovers told us that they had
estimated about 2200 Black-bellied Plovers in the Hillman shorebird cell
around 1:00 p.m. today.
Dave Martin and Linda Wladarski
Harrietsville, ON
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