We refound this grebe about an hour ago and although it's at least 1km away I am pretty confident that it's a Western Grebe due to the apparent amount of blackish colour on its upper face. It was much too far for even remotely identifiable photos or prolonged looks unfortunately, but it was readily findable a handful of times when its head was up.
It was in a loose group of about 20 Red-necked Grebes around the border between the lighter blue and darker blue water, almost directly in line with the fenced off rock spit found by walking south from the parking lot of Saddington Park in Port Credit. We walked about 100m past this spot and viewed from the tip of the hill for a higher angle. Good luck to anyone trying for it! There were a few birders there when we were leaving and we gave them as detailed of directions as possible. See Barb's instructions below for general directions. Hopefully it comes closer to shore tonight or tomorrow! Jeremy Bensette and Tim Arthur Jeremy Bensette - Leamington, ON I'm doing an Ontario Big Year in 2017! Follow along at Jeremybirder.com > On Mar 21, 2017, at 8:14 AM, Barbara Charlton via ONTBIRDS > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ontbirders: > > Forwarding for Peter Burke: > > Peter Burke is currently watching a Western/clark's Grebe offshore about > 350 m. From the parking lot go directly to the shoreline along the border > with the imperial oil lands and look off of the jetty. Bird slowly moving > west on a calm lake > > Lighting is poor and the bird is amoung a number of red-necked grebes, and > other waterfowl keeping to itself. Not detecting a lot of white on the face > so it seems most likely to be a western at this point. > > Saddington park is at the foot of Mississauga Rd. at the mouth of the > Credit, South of the QEW. > > Peter > > Sent from my iPhone > 226-268-5341 > _______________________________________________ > ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the > provincial birding organization. > Send bird reports to [email protected] > For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit > http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup > Posting guidelines can be found at > http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide > Visit the OFO Facebook page > https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists > _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide Visit the OFO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists
