Hi Everyone, I spent the day at Sandbanks Prov Park up to Point Petre. Highlights were an adult Cave Swallow at Point Petre, a first year Golden Eagle along Kings Rd., and 2 Purple Sandpipers on the west side of Long Shore Lodge Rd (Sandbanks). Other birds included a Palm Warbler, a Blue-headed Vireo, all 3 Accipiters, Bald Eagle, a Northern Shrike that darted out of a willow trying to catch the Cave Swallow (it missed), 42 Snow Bunting, 43 American Pipit, 5 White-winged Crossbill, and flocks of siskins and goldfinches moving along the lakeshore, 2500+ Long-tailed Ducks off Point Petre, 2 female Black Scoter at Sandbanks, good numbers of White-winged Scoter, 2 Red-necked, 19 Horned and a Pied-billed Grebe and an adult male Common x Barrow's Goldeneye hybrid just east of Point Petre. I watched and photographed the Cave Swallow from 4:30-5:00 pm - probably the same bird reported by Bruce Ripley this morning. The bird spent about 30 sec in a hole in the rock wall right at the point (just above the large metal plates) - it may roost there tonight.
with best wishes, Paul Directions: From Picton, take route 10 to 11 and follow the signs for Sandbanks Provincial Park. For Point Petre, take route 10 to 24, then Point Petre road to the end. -- **************************************************** Paul R. Martin, PhD Baillie Family Chair in Conservation Biology and Assistant Professor Department of Biology Queen's University Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Canada email: [email protected] phone: +001 613.533.6598 fax: +001 613.533.6617 http://post.queensu.ca/~pm45/ **************************************************** _______________________________________________ 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/
