Even more birding! I spared the morning to head out with my dad to the lake. We tested the 30kmh NNE winds at Van Wagner's for a few hours, and saw 4 Glaucous Gulls fly past... Not really top quality birds, but what can you do?
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We checked the Harbour, which had a decent number of gulls (with nothing of note) and 7-8 Bald Eagles. The canal is under construction, so we could see ducks, but didn't have anywhere easier to look at them...
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Windemere Basin/Red Hill Creek was another stop - with the expected highlights: Great Blue Heron (5). Black-crowned Night Heron, Ring-necked Duck, Northern Shovellers, Coots, Northern Pintail, Hooded Mergs, 2 Iceland Gulls, 2 Glaucous Gulls, Cormorants, Ruddy Ducks, and my species #103 for my year list - 3 Green-winged Teal.
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Big winter storm on the way! I'm still keeping an eye on the weather all the time - not that the birds are moving... Hawk migration starts to get interesting around March 10th, but there really shouldn't be any unexpected/crazy rarities until mid April! It's the slowest time of the year...
Marine Forecast for the next 24 hours: Wind northeast 20 knots increasing to 30 this evening and to 35 near midnight. Wind increasing to northeast 40 late overnight then diminishing to 20 near noon Wednesday
40 knots!! Why didn't this happen in mid September?
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