Hi Everyone, I found a Red Phalarope in the Blenheim Sewage Lagoons this morning about 8:15. It was snowing heavily and I only got enough of a look to tell that it was either a red or red-necked. I went back around noon and was able to get decent photos since it was only sleeting. I will post photos on eBird in the next hour. There is light snow again now but the roads around here are just wet so far. The bird appears to be a first winter bird that it beginning to moult a bit into adult plumage. It spent most of its time along the east edge of the second pond on the right. There is a really nice variety of other late, continuing shorebirds in the third pond on the right including 2 long-billed dowitchers, 2 pectoral sandpipers, 1 white-rumped sandpiper, 1 least sandpiper, 3 greater yellowlegs and a bunch of dunlin, killdeer and wilson's snipe. Directions: From Blenheim, Chatham-Kent, head SW on Hwy 3 (Talbot Trail) for 2 km and turn right on Lagoon Road. The Lagoons are 1 km along on the right. A permit is required.
*Steve CharbonneauErie Beach in Chatham-Kent* _______________________________________________ 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
