Dear Ontario Birders, The first installment of the fall Long Point Bird Observatory sightings board has been posted on the LPBO website - 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 previous week include American Avocet, Red Knot, Prairie Warbler, Yellow-breasted Chat, and many thousands of swallows staging in the region. Regular updates of the birds in the area can be viewed through eBird on LPBO's main web-page www.birdscanada.org/lpbo . Help to contribute to sightings in the Long Point area by submitting your sightings to eBird at www.ebird.ca or by sharing them with us at lpbo@birdscanada.org. The Old Cut Research Station is open to the public every day until November 15. For more information on the research, education, and training programs of LPBO visit us at www.birdscanada.org/lpbo and check out the 2012 LPBO Program Report <http://www.bsc-eoc.org/library/LPBOreport.pdf> . 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 available here <http://www.birdscanada.org/shopping/shop.jsp> . 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> ).