To-day Bill Smith and I started out to bird the Toronto Islands and Rattray Marsh. We started at Wards Island taking the 7 A.M. ferry. After walking for an hour and a half and seeing nothing we decided to leave and try our luck at Rattray Marsh where we obseerved the following birds: 1 - Virginia Rail - 1- Sora Rail - 1-Solitary Sandpiper - Several Semipalmated Plovers and Semipalmated Sandpipers - 1 - Great Egret - 2 Baird"s Sandpipers and 1 adult White- rumped Sandpiper and a Green Heron. Peter McParland _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
