This morning when Andrew Couturier stopped to photograph a Scarlet Tanager beside the 'Old' Long Point P.P., he noticed a nightjar lying dead beside the road. A few photographs of the newly departed bird sent to a few at BSC HQ roused suspicions and a subsequent examination of the specimen confirmed Ontario's second and Long Point's first Lesser Nighthawk. It's been 45 years since the first Ontario sighting April 29, 1974 by Alan Wormington at Point Pelee. Well done Andrew!
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