This morning, Sunday, I checked out the beach at Oliphant:
4 Red Knuts
1 Stilt Sandpiper
1 Sanderling
2 Pectoral Sandpipers
25 Black-bellied Plover
1 Am Golden Plover
1 Semipalmated Sandpiper
1 Short-billed Dowitcher
1 Greater Yellowleg
Directions as per Tom Thomas:
Oliphant can be found by exiting H6 in north Wiarton at Bruce road
13, this road will take you into Oliphant. At Shoreline Ave.in Oliphant,
turn right (north), and drive along the shoreline until you can either turn
right onto Spry lake Rd., or continue on along the shoreline on a no exit
rd. Look for Shorebirds anywhere from this road, as there are vast expanses
of muddy beach habitat.
Oliphant can also be reached by taking the Sauble Falls Parkway (13)
out of Sauble Beach, and turning left at the stop sign where Bruce Rd.13
turns to the right towards Wiarton. Turning left at this Stop sign will
again take you to the Shoreline at Oliphant, then continue as outlined in
the previous directions.
Alfred Raab
