Hello to all, Yesterday at 9:30 a.m. Mary Carnahan had a single Whimbrel at Sibbald Point P.P. on Lake Simcoe (Sutton area), standing on the rocks with some loafing Ring-billed gulls. The bird was near the park's swimming area. Sibbald Point is a provincial park on Lake Simcoe, just north of the town of Sutton. This is in the northern section of York Region, about an hour (or less) north of Toronto where Hwy. 48 (Markham Road) stops going north and bends to the east. Turn left off 48 about 1 km after the big eastern bend and drive north on Park road to the park. Also yesterday, but on the other side of Cook's Bay in Simcoe County, I had three Least Bitterns calling at sunrise near the eastern terminus of 10th Line north of Bradford. There were several Marsh Wrens, Willow Flycatchers (near the last building on the road) and Alder Flycatchers (near the old railway tracks) along this road, as well as a pair of Northern Harriers, a family of Osprey visible on a nesting platform about a km south of the road, and an American Bittern that flew over me at dawn at the dead end of the road. A little further north of this, just north of the eastern terminus of 11th Line, Kevin Shackleton and I had one more Least Bittern and a Virginia Rail calling from the thick vegetation surrounding the lookout platform last Sunday. Kevin and I also found three active Cliff Swallow nests last Sunday at Earl Rowe elementary school, which is on 12th Line just west of 11 (Yonge Street). We also had a Clay-coloured Sparrow buzzing from the north side of 12th Line farther east, past the landfill site. The 10th, 11th and 12th Lines all run east-west, crossing Yonge Street just north of Bradford. Bradford is located just west of Newmarket and just east of Hwy. 400 on Hwy. 88. Ron Fleming, Newmarket
