AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN LONG-TAILED JAEGER Common Loon Red-throated Loon Black-crowned Night Heron Osprey Northern Harrier Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Common Tern Common Nighthawk Olive-sided Flycatcher Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Warbling Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler American Redstart
At 9:15 a.m. on Thursday, August 26th 2004 this is the HNC Birding Report: Ahhh East Winds, the ideal conditions at VanWagners beach for birders to hang out, socialize and look for goodies. This week on Tuesday east winds blew well in the morning and several observers had some great results. The best was found about 1:30 p.m. when a LONG-TAILED JAEGER was spotted off the beach. Other birds seen that day included migrating Common Loons, Black-bellied Plover, Bairds Sandpiper, Sanderling, Northern Harrier, and Common Terns. A good sign of things to come. In the area at Tollgate ponds birds continue to move in and out of the east pond/wet area with Semipalmated Plover, Spotted Sandpiper, Sanderling, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Baird's Sandpiper and Stilt Sandpiper being seen on Tuesday as well. It is interesting to note that numbers do fluctuate during the day as I returned in the evening to see all the goodies that were seen at noon and most had left. In Grimsby this week, water levels continue to be high at the Sewage Lagoons but Lesser Yellowlegs, Pectoral Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper and a Ruddy Turnstone were seen here in the week. At nearby 50 Point C.A. Sanderling were seen scurrying along the beach on Tuesday. The AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN was last reported on Hickory Island in the Dundas Marsh last weekend. This bird could still be in the area. Anyone seeing this bird, please update me. This week at Courtcliffe Park in Carlisle Olive-sided Flycatcher, Warbling Vireo, Blue-winged Warbler,American Redstart and a female Black-throated Blue Warbler were seen. At Waterdown Wetlands Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler and more American Redstarts were seen. Interesting sighting of the week was down at Dundas Hydro Ponds where a leucistic Barn Swallow was seen. Other reports from here and the Desjardins Canal include 2 Ospreys and a number of Black-crowned Night Herons. Finally, a Red-throated Loon was spotted off of Woodland Cemetery last weekend and there were also two reports of migrating Common Nighthawks over Burlington and Dundas. Things are picking up nicely. Keep the sightings coming in. Until next week...... Good birding, Cheryl Edgecombe 905-381-0329 HNC Hotline
