This morning I photographed a male red-bellied woodpecker feeding below one of my feeders.
A first for me in this area (between Gananoque and Ivy Lea, along the St. Lawrence River. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Nov 11 17:07:41 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from indoors.kent.net (indoors.kent.net [216.8.139.183]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1D9363497 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:07:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from waterthrush (dyn216-8-130-173.ADSL.mnsi.net [216.8.130.173]) by indoors.kent.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kABM7LAG006262 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:07:27 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Blake A. Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:07:27 -0500 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 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 Subject: [Ontbirds]Red Phalaropes etc. Sarnia/Port Huron X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:07:42 -0000 Birders, The first significant north wind of the fall made for some good birding at Point Edward at the mouth of Lake Huron today. The best species was RED PHALAROPE just before 15:30h this afternoon. In fact there were as many as three working up the channel into Lake Huron. Two were visible for a good fifteen minutes and occasionally alighted on the water. (they did venture into US waters for those taking tally). As well, at least one PURPLE SANDPIPER was hanging around. One was seen with a Dunlin just before noon. Another (or the same?) circled around in front of us and landed on the shoreline about 15:35h. I walked right up to it to get a good view. At least three BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES (juv.) were seen first thing this morning, the first about 07:30h. A juv. JAEGER was seen migrating about 11:15h. I did not get an ID on it. It flew behind us overland, so it pays to keep looking behind. A LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL (possibly 3rd winter) was seen first thing this morning on the US side. Several COMMON LOONS were seen migrating throughout the morning. SURF and WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS were also seen as well as other ducks, throughout the day. Directions to Point Edward Lakewatch: Find Front St. in Sarnia (along river in downtown) and follow it north to St. Clair St. just past the 402 overpass. Turn left on St. Clair St. and follow it to its very north end in Point Edward past Michigan Ave. Turn left on Victoria Ave. and go less than two blocks to Fort St. Turn right onto Fort St. and go to the parking lot at the lake. Blake A. Mann Wallaceburg Chatham-Kent, Ontario boatmannATkentDOTnet
