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I was in the Huron area this weekend so I decided to get out to the end of
the pier and see what was flying by. I got there around 7:00 and stayed
until around 9:30. As mentioned earlier today there was some excitement
with a Pacific loon and 2 purple sandpipers. I had around 5,300
red-breasted mergansers which was a disappointment. Twenty years ago at
this time of the year, that would have been a small flock.. There were some
Bonaparte's gulls moving, but they didn't start until around 8:30. They
were all heading west and were just north of the pier. Here is a list of
what I saw:
American black duck 2
Mallard 6
Red-breasted merganser 5,300
PACIFIC LOON 1 (possibly 2, second was a fly-by)
Common loon 375
Horned grebe 16
Double-crested cormorant 450+
PURPLE SANDPIPER 2
Bonaparte's gull 385
Ring-billed gull 447
Herring gull 38
Lesser black-backed gull 1
I headed to the Cedar Point Chausee and there was a lot of mud showing and a
few shorebirds, and a peregrine falcon. Also there were 450+ tundra swans
sitting on the bay. There was a single CACKLING GOOSE with all the Canada
Geese just south of the McDonalds along the Cedar Point Causeway. Here is a
list of shorebirds that were off the Chausee (many more were too distant to
ID)
Black-bellied plover 1
Lesser yellowlegs 1
HUDSONIAN GODWIT 2
Dunlin 210
John Pogacnik
4765 Lockwood Road
Perry, OH 44081
(440) 259-2751
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