Ontario birders, The Long Point Bird Observatory sightings board is updated to May 18 http://www.birdscanada.org/longpoint/index.jsp?targetpg=lpbosight
Highlights for this period include: Cattle Egret, Piping Plover, Chuck-wills-widow, Eurasian Collared Dove, Fish Crow, Yellow-throated, Prairie and Prothonotary Warbler, Kirtland’s Warbler, Dickcissel, and Summer Tanager(s), and Yellow-headed Blackbird. You can find all of the locations mentioned in the Long Point Birding Trail<http://www.birdscanada.org/longpoint/index.jsp?targetpg=lpbt&lang=EN>. To get to Long Point, follow the birds, or head south on Hwy 59 from the 401 until you hit the lake. Visitors are always welcome at the Old Cut Research Station, and daily birding hikes depart Old Cut one hour after sunrise. Follow @LongPointBirdOb on Twitter or Facebook at facebook.com/LPBObs<http://facebook.com/LPBObs> for daily updates on birding at Long Point. Contact me off-list if you'd like to be a part of the LPBO Bird Alert Group (requires a mobile phone and WhatsApp). If you enjoy these updates, please consider supporting the LPBO Cygnus Crusaders in the Great Canadian Birdathon - https://www.canadahelps.org/s/2rUhN. This year some members of the Crusaders are tackling an Ontario Big Day! Follow along on LPBO’s social media #OnBigDay! Good birding, Stu Stuart A. Mackenzie Migration Program Manager Bird Studies Canada | Études d'Oiseaux Canada PO Box 160, 115 Front Rd. Port Rowan, Ontario. N0E 1M0. Office: (519)-586-3531 X 162 | Mobile:820-6040 [email protected]| birdscanada.org |motus.org|birdscanada.org/lpbo ____________________ _______________________________________________ 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
