Ontbirders,
After having success yesterday with the Black-necked Stilt at
Ridgetown (just an unbeleivable bird!!), Steve Pike and I decided to
take an early morning birding run from Windsor (@ 3:00A.M!!) to Fifty
Point to get the Western Grebe before breakfast. The bird was seen
right at the end of Kelson road, about 100 metres off shore,
continuosly diving.
Good birding,
Marianne Reid
(2 lifers in 2 days!! Lovin' it!!)
Directions:
Fifty Point Conservation Area, from the QEW in Stoney Creek exit at
Fifty Road and head north to the North Service Road, turn right/east
and then left/north on Baseline Road. You then see the sign to the
C.A, but to avoid paying the $5.00 you can turn north on Kelson Road,
drive to the end, and walk down to the lake.
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From: "Craig McLauchlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE: [Ontbirds]Highlights from Lake Ontario near Lake Shore Park,
Mississauga" NO Purple Sandpipers"
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I and others spent some time this morning looking for the five Purple
Sandpipers with no luck , the Male Harlequin duck and Red Throat Loon
wear just off the park and easy to locate.
Craig McLauchlan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Wayne Renaud
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 5:18 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Ontbirds]Highlights from Lake Ontario near Lake Shore Park,
Mississauga
This afternoon I birded the nw shore of Lake Ontario between the
Petro-Canada refinery pier and the Cement Plant pier. I located five
Purple
Sandpipers and one Dunlin feed at the water's edge on rip-rap (ie.
concrete
and stone breakwater) where it meets the concrete wall of the Cement
plant
pier. In the middle of the bay I found a male Harlequin Duck in full
breeding plumage feeding about 100 meters from shore with a loose flock
of
buffleheads and Common Goldeneye. Also there was a Red-throat Loon in
full
winter plumage near a small group of Red-neck Grebes near the end of the
Petro-Canada Pier. An early Snow Bunting was feeding along the beach
and
late Common Yellowthroat was found in dense willows along the small
creek
that runs into Lake Ontario just along west edge of Lakeshore Park.
Access this section of the waterfront trail (from which these
observation
were made) from Lakeshore Avenue between Erin Mill Parkway and Winston
Churchill (the major landmarks are the Cement Plant and Petro Canada
Plant).
Both the Lakeshore Park and Lakeshore Leash-free Parks have parking
areas
adjant to Lakeshore Avenue. Wayne Renaud
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