Yesterday afternoon (Sunday), when the downpours finally let up, my brother Robert and I decided to check out the Onion Fields north of Pelee for shorebirds. We were not too successful, finding only small numbers of Least & Semipalmated Sandpipers and a few Semipalmated Plovers amonst the many scores of Killdeer. However, on the Tatomir farm (east side of Mersea Rd 19 just north of Concession Rd E) we found a lone American Pipit foraging very close to where our car was parked. I believe this is pretty early for the Pelee area. We also had a Vesper Sparrow or two, and a female Common Nighthawk was perched on a wire (never saw that before) across from the willows on the southwest corner of Hillman Marsh. At Pelee, we only had time to do the DeLaurier Trail, but there was a good variety of warblers, numerous hummingbirds, and many flycatchers including Olive-sided. Good birding! Randy Horvath, Windsor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Canada Personals From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 30 15:05:13 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from mx2.magma.ca (mx2.magma.ca [206.191.0.250]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A438348708 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:05:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail1.magma.ca (mail1.magma.ca [206.191.0.252]) by mx2.magma.ca (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i7UJ5A3N031356; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:05:11 -0400 Received: from oemcomputer.magma.ca (ottawa-hs-209-217-124-8.d-ip.magma.ca [209.217.124.8]) by mail1.magma.ca (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i7UJ57SH027159; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:05:08 -0400 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:04:06 -0400 To: [email protected] From: Gordon Pringle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: [Ontbirds] Ottawa/Gatineau 29Aug04... Hudsonian Godwit, Baird's Sandpiper X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 19:05:14 -0000 - RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 29 August 2004 * ONOT0408.29 - Birds mentioned Pied-billed Grebe Double-crested Cormorant GREAT EGRET Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup White-winged Scoter Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Merlin Black-bellied Plover Greater Yellowlegs WHIMBREL HUDSONIAN GODWIT Red Knot Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper BAIRD'S SANDPIPER Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Red-necked Phalarope Bonaparte's Gull Great Black-backed Gull Common Tern Black Tern Swainson's Thrush Golden-winged Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Chestnut-sided Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Wilson's Warbler Scarlet Tanager Baltimore Oriole - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 29 August 2004 number: 613-860-9000 press 2 to report: 613-860-9000 press # coverage: Ottawa/Gatineau (Can. Nat. Capital Reg.), E.Ont., W.Que. compilers : Chris Lewis : Terry Higgins : Colin Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] transcriber: Michelle Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet : Gordon Pringle [EMAIL PROTECTED] OFNC BIRD STATUS LINE - AUG 29 2004 AT 7:00 PM This is Chris Lewis reporting. Shorebirds on the Ottawa River remained the highlight of the past week, and a few indications of songbird migration were also noted. The mud-flats on the west side of the Shirley's Bay causeway continue to attract shorebirds. Today Aug. 29, 11 juvenile HUDSONIAN GODWITS were observed here before the rain began this afternoon. Approximately 250 individuals of 15 species have been present for most of the week, including increased numbers of Semipalmated Plovers, Greater Yellowlegs, Semipalmated and Least Sandpipers this weekend. Two Black-bellied Plovers were here on the 22nd. On the 28th there were 14 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, 8 Pectoral Sandpipers and one Stilt Sandpiper, and a Red Knot in full basic plumage 1st discovered here on the 22nd was still present on the 29th. A Red-necked Phalarope visited briefly on the 23rd but has not been seen since then. Up to 15 Wilson's Snipes can still be seen feeding near the base of the causeway. An unprecedented number of 53 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS were counted on the 22nd, with 27 at Shirley's Bay and 26 at 2 other locations in the west end of Ottawa, reflecting concurrent high counts elsewhere in southern Ontario. Two GREAT EGRETS are now present in the marshes at Shirley's Bay since the 24th, and 30 Common Terns were counted from the bay and the islands along the causeway on the 27th. A single Black Tern was here on the 28th, along with an immature Merlin and an immature Bald Eagle. Permission is required to access the causeway. Please call the Range Control office at (613) 991-5740. Other reports of interest include the following: Large groups of Double-crested Cormorants, numbering up to 200 birds per flock, have been congregating on the Ottawa River all week. Seven Pied- billed Grebes and 38 Ruddy Ducks were at the large pond on the east side of Moodie Dr. south of the Trail Rd. Landfill on the 22nd, and an early White-winged Scoter was at Shirley's Bay the same day. Ten Ring-necked Ducks were in the Moodie Dr. pond and a handful of Lesser Scaup were noted on the Ottawa River at Shirley's. A WHIMBREL was heard migrating overhead at 2:00 AM on the 28th over the Carlington Heights area. A few Bonaparte's Gulls, mostly juveniles, and an increasing number of Great Black- backed Gulls have been seen on the River as well. Migrant songbirds are showing up in low numbers; most reports were from the woods at Shirley's Bay and the ridge in the Britannia Conservation Area. A male Golden-winged Warbler, rarely seen during fall migration in Ottawa, was at Shirley's on the 21st and 22nd, and small groups of other warbler species since the 22nd included Nashville, Northern Parula, Chestnut-sided, Black- throated Blue, Yellow-rumped, Black-throated Green, Blackburnian, Black-and-white, and Wilson's. Two Scarlet Tanagers and several Baltimore Orioles were at Britannia on the 28th, and a few Swainson's Thrushes were heard calling in flight on the same evening. Thank you - Good Birding! - End transcript
