July 22 - About 3 miles east of Rock Point Provincial Park (Rock Point provincial Park is on the Northeast Shore of Lake Eire 25 miles west of Fort Erie Ontario, or 30 miles west of Buffalo, NY at the source of the Niagara River) was a CATTLE EGRET. At 10:00 to 10:11 it was seen about 40 meters northeast of the intersection of Regional Road 3, and Nice and Warnick Rds. with a group of cattle and two horses. It then flew about a half mile NNE west of King Road and was seen from River Road and Regional Road #3 again with cattle. It was still there when we left at 10:32. At Rock Point PP we had WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, 2ND SUMMER LITTLE GULL AND AN ADULT LITTLE GULL in full breeding plumage! 800 Double-crested Cormorants, 20 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 6 Least Sandpipers, 4 Sanderlings, 14 Lesser Yellowlegs, 2 Stilt Sandpipers, Ruddy Turnstone, 8 Killdeer, 9 Spotted Sandpipers, and 2 Adult with a fledgling Caspian Terns. At Harbor Creek Road (Morgan's' Point, Wainfleet) we added Solitary Sandpiper and Pectoral Sandpiper. In southwestern Fort Eire at the end of Stonemill Road there were 4 Semipalmated Plovers, Short-billed Dowitcher, 4 Caspian Terns, 17 Mute Swans and Great Egret. In southeastern Fort Erie at the end of Kraft Road a nestling Redheaded Woodpecker was sticking its head and neck out the nest hole with the adult Redheaded Woodpecker about 5 meters away. Best Wishes for Great Birding, Bill Watson Tonawanda, NY From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 22 17:46:50 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts5.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.25]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1264448104 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:46:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from trentu.ca ([216.208.194.94]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:57:23 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:57:22 -0400 From: Fred Helleiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [email protected] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 22:20:47 -0400 Subject: [Ontbirds]Presqu'ile Birding Report for Week Ending July 22, 2004. X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:46:50 -0000
The arrival within recent weeks of fall migrant shorebirds at Presqu'ile Provincial Park has brought on the anticipation of migrant songbird arrivals, but differentiating those from birds that are merely dispersing from their breeding territories is virtually impossible. The noisy flock of 14 Common Loons, some in breeding plumage and some in winter plumage, that was off the day use area on July 21 has not been in evidence all summer. Contrary to what was reported last week, Great Egrets are now more prominent: one flew over near the lighthouse on July 18, two were on the beach on July 21, and three flew over the marsh on July 22. A Green Heron was also on the beach on July 21. An Osprey at the calf pasture on July 22 and a Merlin at the Owen Point trail on July 21 were interesting raptor sightings. The two fledged young Barred Owls along the Jobes' Woods trail also belong in that category, though birds of that species are present there throughout the year but usually remain hidden. Shorebird habitat north of Owen Point is now excellent. Some of the birds themselves have discovered it and can be found there every day. The numbers and species vary on a day-by-day basis. Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers and Lesser Yellowlegs are there on most days. Flocks of swallows have been moving past the lighthouse this week, including a dozen Bank Swallows on July 17. A singing Winter Wren on July 21 and a singing White-throated Sparrow on July 17 were reminders that those species are regular but often inconspicuous summer residents in the Park. A Rose-breasted Grosbeak at a feeder at 186 Bayshore Road on July 22 may also have been in the Park all summer, or it may represent an early migrant. The vanguard of migrating warblers should soon put in an appearance. > To reach Presqu'ile Provincial Park, follow the signs from Brighton. > Locations within the Park are shown on a map at the back of a tabloid > that is available at the Park gate. Access to the offshore islands is > restricted at this time of year to prevent disturbance to the colonial > nesting birds there. > > Questions and comments about bird sightings at Presqu'ile may be > directed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Fred Helleiner 186 Bayshore Road, R.R. #4, Brighton, Ontario, Canada, K0K 1H0 VOICE: (613) 475 5309 If visiting, access via Presqu'ile Provincial Park.
