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Birding Reports => Southern Ontario Reports => Topic started by: Len Manning on August 08, 2011, 10:58:35 PM

Title: Blenheim Sewage Lagoons, August 8th
Post by: Len Manning on August 08, 2011, 10:58:35 PM

5 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES in the northwest cell this evening around 5:30 or so. Not much habitat otherwise here, but we did manage a few LESSER YELLOWLEGS and some SPOTTED SANDPIPERS. Ruddy Ducks in the northeast cell.

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Post by: thouc on August 09, 2011, 10:16:18 AM

Nice find!

When one cell was drawn down last year there were hundreds of shorebirds in that cell, but I guess the water levels are too high this year.

/Thomas

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Post by: Len Manning on August 09, 2011, 10:18:25 AM

Thanks.

Yes, the levels in the main lagoons are high. The shorebird sprinkler cells have not been turned on so there is no habitat there, though we noted a lot of Horned Larks in this area.