Photo: Long-tailed Ducks [Clangula hyemalis] - Barry Cherriere

Katherine J. Stoltz

This stretch of the Lake Ontario shoreline is the Niagara portion of the Lake Ontario Mid-winter Waterfowl Inventory.

LARGE NUMBERS OF DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS CAN BE SEEN at almost any spot along the shoreline, although Fifty Point Conservation Area, Vineland, the Port Weller piers and the mouth of the Niagara River at Niagara-on-the-Lake are the premier spots. In the spring the shoreline is also productive for loons and grebes and in the fall all three jaeger species are possible. Allow perhaps one half day for the trip from Fifty Point Conservation Area to Vineland and Port Weller in St. Catharines. The shoreline east of Port Weller to Niagara-on-the-Lake is not usually very productive, and minimal time should be allotted to bird this portion of the shoreline. In the spring the Port Weller area, with its two piers and Malcolmson Eco-Park, is one of our premier areas for migrant passerines. You can easily spend a half-day or more at these locations.

• Fifty Point Conservation Area
• Biggar Lagoons Wetlands (formerly known as Grimsby Sewage Ponds and Winona Sewage Ponds)
• Lakeshore at the Grimsby Marina
• Shoreline between Beamsville and Vineland
• Lake Shoreline at Vineland
• Best Western Beacon Harbourside Inn
• Charles Daley Park
• Courtleigh Road Overlook
• 12 Mile Creek along Martindale Road, St. Catharines
• Green Ribbon Trail and Marsh
• Henley Rowing Club
• Port Dalhousie West Pier
• Port Dalhousie East Pier
• Sunset Beach (formerly known as Municipal Beach)