At 9:45 this morning, the Common Eider was half a kilometre east of
where it was seen yesterday by Margaret Bain. Her directions are as
follows, but go east until the road turns left (away from the lake).
The eider was by itself, not far off shore. In addition to the birds
mentioned below, a group of three scoters with black wings and a fairly
large "white-winged" gull were flying off shore.
Directions: Leave Hwy. 401 at Exit 487 and go south to Hwy. 2, the main
street through Grafton. Here turn right (west) for a short distance and then
first left to go down Station Road to the lake. There is a small parking
area right at the foot of Station Road as it turns eastward, and the bird
was seen from this parking area - a scope helpful.
- Fred Helleiner.
M. Bain wrote:
A group of birders braving blasts of icy rain could not find the Common
Eider at Chub Point south of Grafton this morning, Sunday October 2.
Gulls, Common Loons and Red-breasted Mergansers formed small feeding
frenzies on the lake.
Small numbers of Horned Grebes and large numbers of cormorants.
5 White-winged Scoters flew east as did a group of 20 windblown Tree
Swallows.
There was an early Snow Bunting on the beach.
Will post if the eider turns up again.
Margaret Bain
Cobourg
[email protected]
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_______________________________________________
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/
