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Birding Reports => Migration Movements => Topic started by: raypye on August 05, 2011, 07:15:50 PM

Title: shorebirds- Sobey's Pond- Whitby
Post by: raypye on August 05, 2011, 07:15:50 PM

Friday, August 5
Short-billed Dowitcher- 1, Solitary Sandpiper- 1, Greater Yellowlegs- 1, Lesser Yellowlegs- 9, and Killdeer- 7
Rayfield Pye

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Post by: raypye on August 12, 2011, 05:56:00 PM

Friday, August 12
Short-billed Dowitcher- 2, Greater Yellowlegs- 1, Lesser Yellowlegs- 3, Solitary Sandpiper- 1, Spotted Sandpiper- 1, and Killdeer- 12
Rayfield Pye

Title: Friday, August 19
Post by: raypye on August 19, 2011, 07:09:32 PM

Short-billed Dowitcher- 3, Lesser Yellowlegs- 5, and Killdeer- 14
There is no shorebird in any of the Lake Ontario sites yet- Whitby Harbour, Hydro Marsh or Frenchman's Bay
Rayfield Pye

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Post by: Andreas Jonsson on August 23, 2011, 02:35:29 PM

I visited Frenchman's Bay in mid-July, and water levels were then extremely high. How is it now? Are the northern mudflats accessible, past the creek? Thanks.

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Post by: raypye on August 24, 2011, 06:13:05 PM

Frenchman's Bay- Water levels are still high. At least another week before the water levels will be low enough for shorebirds.
Whitby Harbour- The water levels have droped enough that there are mudflats east of the bridge.
Rayfield Pye