The extensive mudflats continue to provide great shorebird habitat ...
I birded there from 11:30 am to 1:15 pm when the line of intense
thunderstorms and rain arrived. I had a no dowitchers on mudflats
but huge flock of est. 200 Short-billeds landed just was leaving with
25 Pectorals. Before they arrived I had tallied 35 Killdeer, 21
Spotted Sandpipers, 1 Semipalmated Plover, 3 Solitary Sandpipers and
Semipalmated Sandpipers, 5 Least Sandpipers, 1 each of Lesser
Yellowlegs and Baird's and Pectoral Sandpipers. When I was leaving I
found three Black-bellied Plover and 1 Willet on the beach of Jack
Darling Park just east of the mouth of Turtle Creek. I expect with
all this the mudflats will be flooded for a least a few hours.
Direction:
Located south of Lakeshore between Clarkson (Erin Mills Parkway) and
Port Credit (Mississauga Road). Rattray Marsh is best accessed from
the south end of Bexhill. Jack Darling Memorial Park is clearly
marked; park at furthest sw parking and lot.
Wayne Renaud (289-828-0043)
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