I am on reading week this week so I headed home to my parent's house yesterday. This afternoon I decided to stand in the backyard for a couple of hours and at about 2:15 I spotted a swallow flying in from the west. It circled the yard feeding for about two minutes before continuing east. If this would have happened in the summer I would have had no problem calling it a Cliff Swallow but being late October I felt I should post this anyways...due to lighting and height of the bird I was not able to observe much more than the silhouette but I was able to see that it clearly had a light rump...
Also around I had your more typical late October migrants: Fox Sparrows, Tree Sparrows, Kinglets, Yellow-rumped Warblers, and Hermit Thrushes. Also a pair of Great Egrets feeding in a pond along Erbsville Rd., Waterloo. To get to Heidelberg, take Hwy 85 north from Waterloo and exit at the second King St exit, head north to Lobsinger Line and turn west. Any comments on this sighting would be appreciated privately at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good Birding, Mike Burrell Heidelberg, Ont., [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MZ
