This is a little late but thought it would be interesting in view of the recent e-mail. Yesterday Anne Anthony , Bob Prentice and I were at the Sedge Wren Marsh on Wylie Road at 6:30 a.m. and had the Yellow Rail calling clearly very close to the road (20 ft in) half way between the bridge and the woods at the north end. This must make it the new early record. The pair of Loggerhead Shrikes were seen as soon as we got out of the car at Buebird box 10, on the west side where they have been most often seen. We did not get the Sedge Wren and we only heard one Upland Sandpiper right at the north end of Wylie near Alvar Rd. On Alvar Road Evening Grosbeaks were calling.
The Port Perry lagoons were bursting with ducks including just a single female Ruddy Duck. Anne counted over 60 Yellowlegs of both varieties before giving up the count. The only other shorebirds were Killdeer, 1 Least Sandpiper and 3 Spotted Sandpipers. Three Caspian Terns were present any about 20 Bonaparte's Gulls. Tony Bigg From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Apr 28 22:25:17 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts10.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.54]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E64F48BC0 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 22:25:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jean-bapu1sw48i.sympatico.ca ([64.229.210.62]) by tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.netESMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 22:25:51 -0400 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 22:26:09 -0400 To: [email protected] From: Jean Iron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: [Ontbirds] Yellow Rail Correction X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 02:25:17 -0000 The earliest date of 28 April 2003 for a Yellow Rail at the Sedge Wren Marsh in Carden was an error in today's previous post titled "Loggerhead Shrike - Carden Alvar". I just checked the Archived Ontario Birding Reports. My earliest date for a Yellow Rail in Carden is 24 April 2002, which was posted that day to Ontbirds on Jean Iron's e-mail. Ron Pittaway Minden and Toronto
