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When I arrived today at 4.30 pm at the beginning of the Owen Point
trail, Maureen Riggs informed me there was a red knot at viewing station
1. I did not see it there, but found it right at the point. It is an
adult pretty well fully moulted into grey plumage. Also present at 6pm
were 4 whimbrel, 2 adult white rumps with many grey scaps and coverts
but still well streaked on the sides, 1 juvenile short-billed
dowitcher, 2 pectorals, and the usual commoners. I did not see the
buff-breasted over the 2 hours I was there and a young man walked the
whole tombolo spraying dead birds red (it was terrible to see all the
red patches in the sun), so it was not hiding over a ridge.
The willows and scrub at the Point were productive, yielding among
others 4 vireo species (red-eyed, warbling, Philadelphia, and
yellow-throated.
- [Ontbirds]Presqu'ile Shorebirds bill gilmour
- [Ontbirds]Presqu'ile Shorebirds Richard Pope
