John Confer and I drove up to the north end of the lake yesterday
evening to look for some of the recently-sighted birds. From the tower
at Tschache Pool we scoped the vast mud flats and found - 3 BLACK-
BELLIED PLOVERS and two distant shorebirds that flew in and
disappeared behind logs and stumps. No other shorebirds. 3 Red-winged
Blackbirds. One of the plovers had a markedly darker cap, making it
worth a closer look. However the throat and belly were black while the
vent was white, and the bill was relatively short and stubby. So we
left it as Black-bellied Plover.
From there we drove out Armitage Road, parked just past the green
bridge, and spent about a half hour walking up and down the road to
the west. We heard several Yellow Warblers, 2 American Redstarts, also
Common Yellowthroats, Swamp Sparrows and, surprisingly, 3 ACADIAN
FLYCATCHERS. Two of them were on the north side, close to the road.
The third was on the south side. Unfortunately for us, no Prothonotary
Warblers. We left at sunset.
Bob McGuire
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