> Following up to Ron Ridout's post this morning. We staked out Long Point's > Inner Bay for much of the morning from the Lion's Park in Port Rowan and from > various locations along the Long Point Causeway. > > As of 1200, we made a reasonable and probably conservative estimate of 130 > Little Gulls with only about 6 being first basic individuals. The vast > majority were flying west with some lingering at the western edge of the bay > where a single high count of 65 was made around 1100. > > Other highlights include: Black Tern (1), Forster's Tern (2), Caspian Tern > (6), Common Tern (120), Greater Yellowlegs, Peregrine Falcon, and 10-15,000 > waterfowl, mostly Redhead and American Wigeon with lower numbers of most > other species. > > Direction to Long Point can be found on the Long Point Bird Observatory > website- www.birdscanada.org/lpbo > > Good birding, > > Stu > > ____________________
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