From my visit to Beaton Point it seems that a few peeps are appearing in suitable habitat. For the last few days the flooded beach next to the dune habitat at Ashbridges Bay/Beach has featured four species of peeps. I decided to drop by very early this morning because there is a heat wave coming which will last at least a full week, if not longer. There wasn't much light that early. I walked out onto the flooded section near the dune habitat and saw
nothing. No peeps! After walking all the way out I realized that I had left my backpack and cushion in the trunk of the car. I had boots on so that I could walk through the flooded sections but I had nothing to sit on should I find something and want to get a shot close to sand/mud level. On my way back to the car I spotted a single peep. It was a Semipalmated plover bathed in soft yellow sunlight. By the time I got to my car and retrieved my stuff and then back out onto the beach it was already much brighter. I headed around the east end of the flooded section so that I could have the sun behind me but all to no avail. The only peep that appeared was much later in the morning just as I was leaving. I was too far away from it to tell what it was but someone else was taking a photo of it. It then flew to the south end of the flooded area where several people were previously stationed and patiently waiting, all having since left. I walked across the puddle toward it but it took of across the lake and that was the end of that.
