Dear Ontario Birders, The Long Point Bird Observatory sightings board is updated to October 11, and is available here http://www.birdscanada.org/longpoint/index.jsp?targetpg=lpbosight <http://www.birdscanada.org/longpoint/index.jsp?targetpg=lpbosight&lang=EN> &lang=EN. Highlights from the last period include Townsend's Solitaire, Yellow-throated Warbler, and Dickcissel. Updates of the birds in the area can be viewed through eBird on LPBO's main web-page <http://www.birdscanada.org/lpbo> www.birdscanada.org/lpbo . Help to contribute to sightings in the Long Point area by submitting your sightings to eBbird at <http://www.ebird.ca> www.ebird.ca or by sharing them with us at <mailto:lpbo@birdscanada.org> lpbo@birdscanada.org. The Old Cut Research Station is open to the public every day until November 15. Visitors are also welcome for Northern Saw-whet Owl banding commencing about a half hour after sunset on fair-weather nights. For more information on the research, education, and training programs of LPBO visit us at <http://www.birdscanada.org/lpbo> www.birdscanada.org/lpbo and check out the <http://www.bsc-eoc.org/library/LPBOreport.pdf> 2012 LPBO Program Report. Your best source for information about the birds and birding sites around Long Point can be found in A Birding Guide to the Long Point Area by Ron Ridout <http://www.birdscanada.org/shopping/shop.jsp> available here. Good birding, Stu ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ Stuart A. Mackenzie LPBO Program Coordinator Long Point Bird Observatory - Bird Studies Canada/Etudes d'Oiseaux Canada PO Box 160, 115 Front Rd. Port Rowan, Ontario. N0E 1M0. (519)-586-3531 X 162(office), X 200 or X 201 (Old Cut Research Station), Fax:586-3532, Mobile:820-6040 <mailto:smackenzie@birdscanada.org> smackenzie@birdscanada.org <http://www.birdscanada.org/longpoint> www.birdscanada.org/lpbo <http://www.facebook.com/longpointbirdobservatory> www.facebook.com/lpbobs Support LPBO by sponsoring the Cygnus Crusaders in the Baillie Birdathon (click here <http://birdscanada.kintera.org/faf/search/searchTeamPart.asp?ievent=1048292 &lis=1&kntae1048292=4A58E57408AF4A669B09CEF1FB4ECB42&team=5403459> ).