Just a quick note to say that the Eurasian Wigeon continues in the onion fields north of Point Pelee on the west end of Mersea Rd E. See below emails for more directions/info.
Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: Jeremy Bensette <jeremy_bense...@hotmail.com> > Date: March 28, 2014 at 1:58:19 AM EDT > To: Bird Alert Ontbirds <birdalert@ontbirds.ca> > Subject: [Ontbirds] Fwd: Eurasian Wigeon @ Point Pelee still present > > My apologies... I meant to send this to ontbirds earlier but in my hurry to > get back to work from lunch break I sent it to the original finder. Read my > email below: > >> From: Jeremy Bensette <jeremy_bense...@hotmail.com> >> Date: 27 March, 2014 2:51:00 PM EDT >> To: Alan Wormington <worming...@juno.com> >> Subject: Eurasian Wigeon @ Point Pelee still present >> >> The Eurasian Wigeon reported last night by Alan Wormington is still alive >> and well, in the same field Alan found it in. I'm on lunch break so I have >> to keep this brief, but Alan's directions are below. Good luck birding! >> >> Jeremy Bensette >> >>> On 2014-03-26, at 6:28 PM, "Alan Wormington" <worming...@juno.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Late this afternoon I found a Eurasian Wigeon at the corner of Pelee Drive >>> and Concession Road E. The bird is in a flooded field with a massive >>> concentration of other puddle ducks. >>> >>> The bird is a "drab" male with a dull rusty head (not bright red) so I >>> suspect it is a one-year-old. >>> >>> Estimates of other birds in the same field include: >>> >>> Mallard -- 1900 >>> Northern Pintail -- 600 >>> American Wigeon -- 450 >>> Gadwall -- 450 >>> Eastern Meadowlark -- 4 >>> >>> Alan Wormington, >>> Leamington >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial >>> birding organization. >>> Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca >>> For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit >>> http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup > _______________________________________________ > ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial > birding organization. > Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca > For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit > http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup > _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup
