I went back this afternoon after reporting the Ibis flock and found them easily in the same spot. The shoulders in this area are pretty narrow, so it's a good idea to put your hazards on. People gave me lots of space, but I got a few funny looks.
There looked to be perhaps a couple more birds than before, maybe 7 or 8, all flying together over the fields. At about 5:30 they moved to an area farther east towards Merritville Highway (the next major road to the east). This entire area has a lot of open corn fields and wet sodded areas. I lost sight of them when I got a call that a family member had a shorebird near her backyard pond a block or so away and had to wheel the car around to go check it out. (Solitary Sandpiper as it turned out). However, from what I could tell they are staying in the same general square between 20 Highway and Port Robinson (north/south) and Cataract and Merrittville (west/east) and are keeping company with ring-billed gulls frequenting the fields. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed May 4 10:19:24 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from fep1.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D60DC640A0 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 4 May 2005 10:19:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mainoffice (d57-191-94.home.cgocable.net [24.57.191.94]) by fep1.cogeco.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 003F88838 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 4 May 2005 10:33:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Cheryl Edgecombe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 10:33:13 -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 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Importance: Normal Subject: [Ontbirds]Neotropic Cormorant Relocated at Wheatley Harbour X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 14:19:24 -0000 Glenda Slessor has just phoned to say the Neotropic Cormorant is at Wheatley Harbour feeding just across from the Omstead Fish Plant as of 10:15 a.m.. Cheers, Cheryl Edgecombe
