This morning about 10:30 am there was a single male Red Phalarope in the first lagoon. The fourth lagoon is still essentially drained providing lots of shorebird habitat around the remaining puddles. The number of shorebirds is probably down by about 1/3rd since last week but still number in the 2 to 3 hundred range with Least Sandpiper the most prominent, Stilt and Dunlin still quite well represented and a few White-Rumped. Lots of Black Tern over the back cell. 4 or 5 Caspian Tern were in the 4th cell. Ducks were represented by a few Lesser Scaup, Shovelers, Mallards and a pair of Blue Winged Teal and a pair of American Wideon.
$5 permits for the Nonquon Sewage Lagoons must be purchased in advance from the Durham Region Transfer Site at 1623 Reach Rd, Port Perry on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 6 p.m. To get to the transfer station, travel north on Hwy 12 past Port Perry [Hwy 7A] to the next traffic lights [Regional Road 8 = Reach Rd.] and travel east to #1623 on the north side of the road. The lagoons are one road north of the transfer site, east off Hwy 12 on Concession Rd. 8 [don't get confused as, despite the fact that these roads are both numbered "8", they are two different roads - one is a regional paved road, the other a dirt concession road.] -- B.F. Aikins 118 Morris Lane Scugog Point Nestleton Stn. ON L0B 1L0 _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdssetup.php ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdsguide.php
