Today at noon there were 5 Buff-breasted Sandpiper (1 adult: 4
juveniles) feeding around, and through, the sparsely-vegetated sandy
area in the middle of the marsh where the creek does a quick turn-
around. Just before I left at 1:00 pm a Great Blue Heron flew in
and flushed one Lesser Yellowlegs with the Buff-breasts and they
landed somewhere in the western part of the marsh where there is
likely some standing water. Other shorebirds: 14 Sanderling (on beach
at out-flow to lake); 2 Least Sandpiper; 3 Spotted Sandpipers: 2
Solitary Sandpipers; 1 Semipalmated Plover and 17 Killdeer. There was
also a mature Great Egret with orange saddles under both wings with
the 31R code (the right leg was banded).
Directions:
Park at the south end of Bexhill Road which runs off Lakeshore
Boulevard west between Mississauga Road and Erin Mills Parkway/
Southdown Road. The marsh are was not that busy today because the
cross street which runs off the south end of Bexhill Road is blocked
by a film crew ... but you can still park on Nautalix. Alternatively
you can park in Jack Darling Memorial Park which abuts the east side
of the marsh (use western-most parking lot) then walk west along the
lake to the marsh.
Wayne Renaud (289-828-0043)
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