Ontbirders A very fresh and rather confiding juvenile Whimbrel was foraging in the beach three area at Presqu'ile this afternoon. Several juvenile Baird's Sandpipers, as well as, Semipalmated and Least Sandpipers frequented the same area. Also about were Black-bellied and Semipalmated Plovers, Lesser Yellowlegs and Sanderlings. A Merlin and a Peregrine Falcon were observed buzzing the beach, the latter making a spectacular shorebird-scattering sortie from one end of the beach to the other. Most birds were seen from the viewing station on the former beach four, and stretched all the way north to where recreational beach users were clustered. With beach habitat improving, more shorebirds, including Buff-breasted Sandpipers, are expected imminently. The way to Presqu'ile is well signed south of Brighton.
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