Our last day, and a bit of a lie in before heading South then East to visit Niagara Falls. Whilst the falls were quite spectacular, both Martins were soon itching to get back to birding. A stop at Beamer Falls, after we found our way there, produced nothing new, but a call in to the (former) Grimsby Sewerage Works site produced out 200th species of the trip – Long-tailed Duck on Lake Ontario. Heading back along the freeway MB noticed he’d picked up a hitchhiker in the form of a tick. A further two ticks were found, fortunately none of which had yet started to feed, before we could pull into a service station were a visit to the rest room ensured that no more were hitching a lift back to the UK.
This is where he forgot to say he chuck it out of the window and It flew staight in the back with me and Rob and it landed on my neck and I grab it just in time and me and rob scratched and checked our clothes all the way to the airport.It was the first new tick in a day or two.
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