At Frenchman's Bay this afternoon (4.30-6.30pm). No Red knot, but instead a White-rumped Sandpiper. Also several pipits. Key species below.
4 Northern Shoveler 30 Green-winged Teal 65 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Osprey 1 Cooper's Hawk 5 Semipalmated Plover X Killdeer 1 Spotted Sandpiper 13 Lesser Yellowlegs 4 Semipalmated Sandpiper 40 Least Sandpiper 1 White-rumped Sandpiper 2 Baird's Sandpiper 9 Pectoral Sandpiper 100 Ring-billed Gull 1 Caspian Tern 7 American Pipit Good birding Andreas Jonsson, Toronto Directions (public transit): Get off at Pickering GO station, walk or bike 1 km west along Bayly st. until you reach the Gingerbread Daycare Centre. For further details see below. Directions (car): Exit 401 at White's Road and go south to Bayly then east until you see the Gingerbread Daycare Centre (a low brown building all by itself in a large parking lot) on your right (there is a sign for it on Bayly St.). Park in their parking lot and walk east from the SE edge of the parking lot and follow the trail to the marsh then cross the creek to the mud flats where the creek meets Frenchman's Bay. Boots required. Sitting to rest on the old couch in the creek not recommended. _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
