There is currently a Hudsonian Godwit at the Ault Island Causeway. The bird is feeding on the shoreline south east of the causeway. To get to the causeway from the 401 take the Upper Canada exit and go east on highway 2 past Upper Canada Village, turning south on the Ault Island Road. Also present: 1 Mute Swan, 6 BB Plover, 2 Semipalmated Plover, 5 Dunlin and a massive flock of Ring-necked Duck and Redhead. Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Rogers network.

The godwit remained until after 3:00 then lifted off and migrated west. Small flocks of shorebirds were moving past the area today – Dunlin, Pectoral Sandpipers, Black-bellied Plovers and Semipalmated Plovers with a single Semipalmated Sandpiper stopping. There was a female Ruddy Duck in with the Ring-necks. There are virtually no shoreline mudflats east of this location on the river so it is the only area that shorebirds might put down. Brian Morin On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 9:10 AM mark gawn via ONTBIRDS < birdalert@ontbirds.ca> wrote: > There is currently a Hudsonian Godwit at the Ault Island Causeway. The > bird is feeding on the shoreline south east of the causeway. To get to the > causeway from the 401 take the Upper Canada exit and go east on highway 2 > past Upper Canada Village, turning south on the Ault Island Road. Also > present: 1 Mute Swan, 6 BB Plover, 2 Semipalmated Plover, 5 Dunlin and a > massive flock of Ring-necked Duck and Redhead. > > Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Rogers network. > _______________________________________________ > ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the > provincial birding organization. > Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca > For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit > http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup > Posting guidelines can be found at > http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide > Visit the OFO Facebook page > https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists > >