Took a drive out north today to Tiny Marsh ,saw the American Avocet Diane reported this morning ,is very pale, in non breeding plumage ,also the golden plovers and the Wigeon are still there and a Great Egret plus the usual marsh birds. As a bonus when we walked along the trail leading to the left from the Interpretive Centre towards the lookout ,in some bushes on the right hand side just before the dried up creek there was a male Connecticut Warbler!!, finally have seen one ,is my "problem" bird. Also there was a chestnut-side warbler ,wilson's warbler, red-eyed vireo and some chickadees around by the centre. On the way back stopped by the sod farm on tottenham sideroad and there was one Buff Breasted Sandpiper still in the back of the field just west on 10th line, with many killdeer
DIRECTIONS TO TINY MARSH: (per Ron Fleming): Tiny Marsh is about a 20 minute drive northwest of Barrie and about 10 minutes east of Wasaga Beach. Exit Hwy. 400 at the Bayfield St. ramp in Barrie, then follow Bayfield northwest (left). Bayfield becomes County Road 27 (do not turn onto #26 west toward Stayner and Wasaga). Keep going north (straight). Take 27 north through the village of Elmvale, cross the little Wye River, then look for Simcoe Road 6 and turn west (left). The road quickly angles northward through the hamlet of Saurin. Go a short distance to 1st Conc., which is the Tiny-Flos Townline (a sign on the left indicates the way to Tiny Marsh). Turn west (left) on the unpaved townline road and go 3.5 km to either the first parking lot on the right or another half km to the Interpretive Centre parking lot. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Aug 28 20:54:24 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from simmts12-srv.bellnexxia.net (simmts12.bellnexxia.net [206.47.199.141]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BE6F63BED for <[email protected]>; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:54:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ShannyCom ([64.228.220.210]) by simmts12-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with SMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:57:45 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Don Shanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ontbirds" <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:57:41 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Subject: [Ontbirds]Presqu'ile Buff-breasted Sandpipers X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 00:54:24 -0000 Ontbirders This evening we saw seven Buff-breasted Sandpipers foraging on algae flats just off Owen Point on the south end of the Presqu'ile beach. Also, in the area among a dozen or so shorebird species was an adult American Golden Plover. Directions to Presqu'ile are well-signed south of Brighton. Don and Ian Shanahan Brighton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
