Last weekend I was down in Niagara to pick up some furniture for the new house, and squeezed in a bit of bird watching along the Niagara River. The gull watching was not as good as I was expecting for this time of year. I had no white-winged gulls and overall abundance was lower than I would expect for this time of year. Hopefully it is better for this weekends gull outing for OFO. I still had a few interesting observations, including a Dunlin out on the rocks above the falls - I was surprised and disappointed when I looked closely and saw it was not a Purple Sandpiper! I also had Red-necked Grebe on Lake Erie near Point Abino.
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| Lots of Horned Grebes were present along the river and on both Lake Ontario and Erie |
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| Tundra Swans were present in good numbers along the river |
The area near the falls was coated in a thick layer of ice from all the freezing mist, it was quite scenic.
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| Point Abino |
Yesterday I went up to Luther Marsh before work to look for some winter birds that Dan MacNeal had spotted. I found the Bohemian Waxwings, as well as this Northern Shrike and some Common Redpolls but did not find the Pine Grosbeaks unfortunately.
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| Northern Shrike |
I have never seen so many Bohemian Waxwings at one time before. The flock was easily at 200 birds.
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| Bohemian Waxwings |
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