Early this afternoon, I joined a party of birders on Gardiner-Barclay Rd. watching the Northern shrike.  Headed over to Hoagland-Blackstub Road - the tubes - at the northwest corner of Mosquito Lake where a number of other birders were gathered. Large numbers of waterfowl: Canada geese and dabbling ducks including mallards, black duck, American wigeon, pintail, gadwall, N. shoveller, and lots of green-winged teal.  Eventually the brant was located among them.  A flock of dunlin were at water’s edge with several black-bellied plover and a few pectoral sandpipers mixed in.  Also on the grassy mudflats were killdeer and a couple of semi-palmated sandpipers and . . . yes! The Hudsonian godwit.   In the distance, we spotted a peregrine falcon perched in a tree top on an island.  Had a long look before the peregrine buzzed the ducks and many ring-billed gulls (with some Bonaparte’s gulls too) sending the whole bay-full of birds in the air.  A couple of great blue herons and an E. bluebirdl gave us some “bllues” to look at, but none to feel with such a spectacular day at Mosquito.

Dan Best
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