[Ontbirds]Little Blue Heron back in Port Rowan today

[Denis Lepage]

Just a quick update on the Little Blue Heron. The bird was seen flying away, presumably to roost, last night around 8pm. The bird came back around mid day today at the Bird Studies Canada's headquarter, and is probably still there now.

If you come to see it, please use BSC's parking lot rather than the cemetery road. You can walk around the building and use the observation deck. A few shorebirds have also started to use the pond, including Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs, and Solitary Sandpiper.

Directions: BSC's office is located at the western end of Port Rowan along Front Street. The pond is visible from the observation deck on the south-west corner. To reach Port Rowan, you can take highway 59 south and turn east of Front Street. BSC's office is a few hundred meters from highway 59, on the south side of Front Street.

This google map link provides the location:
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bird+studies+Canada&sll=49.8
91235,-97.15369&sspn=23.77254,59.765625&ie=UTF8&ll=42.627391,-80.463181&spn=
0.052921,0.11673&z=13

Denis Lepage,  Senior Scientist/Chercheur sénior National Data Center/Centre national des données Bird Studies Canada/Études d'Oiseaux Canada PO Box/B.P. 160, Port Rowan, ON  N0E 1M0
519-586-3531 ext. 225, fax/téléc. 519-586-3532