Hi Mike.
Glad you found this bird today. It appears to be the
same bird as the one on Monday, as it also was missing the outer tail
feathers.
Allen
> Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 20:21:10 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Ontbirds] Fwd: Swallow-tailed Kite follow-up
>
> Hi Birders,
>
> Just thought I'd give a quick update on the Swallow-tailed Kite that Erica
> Barkley and I found today just outside of Port Alma.
>
> We were floored to see this bird circling around some trees at a house
> before it circled a little to the northwest over some fields before
> starting to head west along the lake shore. It continued along the edge of
> the lake heading west for about 10 minutes where it would stop and
> investigate any patch of trees before moving on. After about ten minutes
> of that it started really b-lining along the shore heading west, often
> being hard to keep up with. We lost it when we took a dead end road to try
> to get closer to the lake just east of Wheatley Provincial Park.
>
> Amazingly, we found it again on Mersea Road E (not D as I originally
> posted) just west of Mersea Road 19 when it flew over us and headed south
> over the Pelee marsh. We found a spot about 1 minute later where we could
> cross over the ditch and climb up onto the dyke - when we did that for some
> reason we couldn't find the bird but it was seen a couple minutes later
> over Delaurier (as reported by Jarmo Jalava) and then the large crowd that
> had gathered at the Visitor Centre parking lot got the bird flying almost
> directly overhead. All of that happened in just over 1 hour (11 am to 12
> pm). As far as I heard, no one saw the bird after it passed over Woodland
> Nature Trail (as reported by Rob Waldhuber), which is directly south of the
> Visitor Centre. This is despite lots of people watching to see if the bird
> flew back north after reaching the point so it is possible it decided to
> make the crossing over Lake Erie.
>
> I know lots of people got great photos of the bird over the Visitor Centre
> I got a few decent shots of it near Port Alma that are on my blog:
> http://mikeburrell.blogspot.ca/
>
> Interestingly, this bird was missing the outer two tail feathers on the
> left side of the tail - the Pickering bird two weeks ago was not, but I
> would be curious to know if the bird seen on Monday was also missing these
> feathers.
>
> Good Birding!
>
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> Mike Burrell
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> http://mikeburrell.blogspot.com/
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