Teamed up with the rarity finding machine known only as Kentucky yesterday...... Some spots:
Erb St. Landfill in Waterloo - did a 5 minute look - nothing (not even a hybrid)
Feeble attempt at a Waterspout at Port Burwell
Port Burwell - gulls and geese on the beach, not much else... Lots of Waxwings.. LOTS of waxwings...
PB Provincial Park - beach was dead... Some Warblers -- Cape May, Blackpoll, Orange-crowned...
LOTS of passerines to look at again, maybe not as many as recent weeks, but still good. Highlights were a Catbird and a Philly Vireo! -- we wondered how late it was getting for PHVI.... The bird was very bright.. I managed a terrible record photo:
Long Point - did a quick "drive around" - most unexpected were these Caspian Terns on Hastings Drive... Another bird where I feel like it's getting fairly late, but we somehow managed to see multiple birds:
Port Rowan SL had my first STILT SANDPIPERS of the year! Yearbird! woo! (As you may have noticed, I didn't really look at shorebirds this summer...) Some teal that I didn't look at carefully as well....
Lots of gulls on the Inner Bay at LP - along with thousands of American Wigeon and American Coots... Did a quick scan, but no Euros... Want a bigger rarity anyways....
On the drive home we had an unusual "goose" catch out attention, until we noticed it was a domestic mallard thing (Ken called it something proper).
There's always tomorrow for your rarity dreams to come true...
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Epic cosmic mega rare from Massachusetts - Gray-tailed Tattler:
Awesome rare from VA:
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A bit of "long-range" weather fun - an extremely powerful storm making landfall in the USA on Oct 29th ish, then travelling into eastern Lake Ontario where it would no doubt drop dozens of rarities........
Equivalent pressure to a Category 3 Hurricane here......
This is just bordering on our "long range" abilities methinks, and perhaps the proper term would be "fantasy land forecast" or "wish-casting" - but hey, it sure looks like it would be FANTASTIC rarity weather (eg,/ some of the best ever.. that is an unbelievably strong storm)
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