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Birding Reports => Southern Ontario Reports => Topic started by: thouc on August 09, 2010, 12:01:06 AM

Title: Blenheim Sewage Lagoons Aug 8
Post by: thouc on August 09, 2010, 12:01:06 AM
Great variety and numbers of shorebirds today. Total 13 species of shorebirds. I had one lifer (White-rumped Sandpiper 2 ad.) and four new species for the year (Baird's Sandpiper 2 juv, Wilson's Snipe 1, Green Heron 1 and Northern Pintail 1 female).

Complete list:
 6 Canada Goose  
1 Wood Duck  
1 American Wigeon  
30 Mallard  
1 Blue-winged Teal  
3 Northern Shoveler  
1 Northern Pintail  
5 Green-winged Teal  
4 Ruddy Duck  
3 Pied-billed Grebe  
1 Great Blue Heron  
1 Green Heron  
3 Turkey Vulture  
1 Northern Harrier  
1 Black-bellied Plover  
7 Semipalmated Plover  
100 Killdeer  
3 Spotted Sandpiper  
50 Lesser Yellowlegs  
20 Semipalmated Sandpiper  
200 Least Sandpiper  
2 White-rumped Sandpiper  
2 Baird's Sandpiper  
50 Pectoral Sandpiper  
1 Stilt Sandpiper  
1 Short-billed Dowitcher  
1 Wilson's Snipe  
10 Ring-billed Gull  
5 Mourning Dove  
1 Eastern Kingbird  
2000 Tree Swallow  
50 Barn Swallow  
500 European Starling  
1 Cedar Waxwing  

 /Thomas