At 9.50 this morning, Saturday August 19, as I walked down towards Beach 2 at Presquile Park, 2 juvenile Long-tailed Jaegers appeared overhead, half-heartedly annoying a small group of gulls. Both were slender, dark birds with narrow pointed wings, a graceful buoyant flight, and tell-tale central tail feathers projecting a few centimetres beyond their slim tail. The underwings showed only a small white flash with heavy dark barring perhaps slightly paler than the dark body.
I studied the jaegers in flight for several minutes as they lazily circled towards Owen Point, then unfortunately realized my cell-phone was in my car, rushed back to get it to alert local birders, but on returning to the beach could not relocate the jaegers and they were not refound in the next hour or so by a group of us. A small compensation was the good showing of shorebirds on nearby Beach 3, including several Sanderlings and Baird’s Sandpipers. Presqu’ile Provincial Park is signposted from the Brighton exit from Hwy.401. Margaret Bain _______________________________________________ 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
