Monday, September 5, 2011

Birdin Yesterday

Birding with Ken Burrell yesterday near Lake Erie. Ken did a great ontbirds posting of our highlights, which I can relay here:




Hey Birders,

Brandon Holden and I birded the north shore of Erie today, from Port
Stanley to Port Dover/Townsend. We stopped first at Port Stanley,
where we saw the following;
Hudsonian Godwit - 1
Red-necked Phalarope - 10
Stilt Sandpiper - 3

Next we proceeded east along the lake, where we stopped at Port
Burwell. Walking through the park, to the beach, netted a few
songbirds (Philadelphia Vireo, Bay-breasted, Blackpoll and Wilson's
Warblers). Thousands of gulls were either on the beach, or close to
shore. Most notable were at least 17 Little Gull's a few hundred
metres offshore. There is likely many more, though this was a minimum
count.

Heading east, the last main stop, which yielded 'results' was the
Townsend lagoons, where we had the following;
Red-necked Phalarope - 1
Stilt Sandpiper - 2
Baird's Sandpiper - 4
Merlin - 1

Good Birding,
Ken Burrell - http://kenburrell.blogspot.com/
and
Brandon Holden - http://www.blog.peregrineprints.com/





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Not a bad day at all! I managed to take some documentation videos of the good birds at Port Stanley SL - which you can watch here:

Red-necked Phalaropes @ Port Stanley

Click on the video a few times to watch it on youtube proper (where you can make it "full screen" to see the birds better)



Ad. Hud-wit @ P. stanley SL 



Do note, these are pretty terrible videos.. Sooner or later I will get over the novelty of taking really bad videos to document uncommon birds and you may not have to watch them anymore!

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