G'day. After failing to find any rarities at Point Pelee this morning, I played a hunch and went to Hillman Marsh. At 2:30 p.m., as my brother Robert and I walked the path toward the beginning of the Hillman Trail, I spotted a 1st winter Laughing Gull on the water right beside us. We watched it for about 15 minutes before it took wing and flew off. However, while Robert went to investigate the baited area, the Laughing Gull returned. I watched it flying around the front end of the marsh and it eventually settled back on the water near a raft of Ring-billed Gulls not far from the Welcome Centre. It was still present when we left at 3:30, after terrific looks at it in the scope. Hillman Marsh is a short drive east of Leamington and northeast of Pelee and is easy to find by following the signs. Randy Horvath, Windsor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--------------------------------- Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Oct 30 17:00:15 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10AAA482A2 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 17:00:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from keinetworks.org ([68.41.164.202]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with SMTP id <20041030210947015007aqkje>; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:09:48 +0000 Received: (qmail 2657 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2004 20:45:06 -0000 Received: from pc-00016.keinetworks.org (HELO 3ghzp4) (192.168.0.16) by smeserver.keinetworks.org (192.168.0.1) with SMTP; 30 Oct 2004 20:45:06 -0000 From: "Duck Watcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 17:06:06 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Subject: [Ontbirds]Pointe Edward, Kettle Point, etc. X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:00:15 -0000 Hellow all birders, Today Craig Bateman and I birded from Sarnia to Grand Bend. Our first stop was Pointe Edward. Not a lot there, here's what we saw at Pointe Edward: Ring-billed Gull - hundreds Herring Gull - a few Bonaparte's Gull - a few Killdeer - 1 Red-breasted Merganser - 3 Common Merganser - 1 (We got great looks at both of the mergs in the same scope view) Next, we moved on to Bright's Grove Sewage Lagoons. It was cloudy, and threatening to rain most of the time. Here's what we saw: American Pipit - MANY Norther Harrier - 1 Bufflehead - MANY American Black Duck - ~5 Northern Shoveler - ~40 Mallard - Many Common Goldeneye - 1 Ruddy Duck - 1 Bonaparte's Gull - ~30 American Tree Sparrow - ~12 Green-winged Teal - ~10 D.C. Cormorant - 1 Lesser Scaup - a few Greater Scaup - ~20 American Coot - 1 Kettle Point was next. We bravely walked out on the rocky pennisula into the lake. It was worth it! We got close-up looks at birds. Here's what we saw: SNOW BUNTING - 1 (Extremely close, flew within a few feet of us. Beautiful male with bright orange on the neck!) Horned Lark - ~10 (At one point a flock came flying in from the lake) Great-black-backed Gull - ~5 Ring-billed Gull - several Herring Gull - a few Bald Eagle - 1 (an immature) Mallard - many R.B. Merganser - 4 D.E. Junco - 6 Unidentified ducks (maybe scoters) - ~20 Unidentified Finches - (maybe siskins) - 6 Lastly, we birded Pinery Park. A lot of chickadees, titmice and nuthatches around. Hardly any berries, and no waxwings at all. The only good bird was a Sanderling that provided close views at the beach. Good Birding, Neil Gilbert Beverly Hills, MI
