Sorry for the lateness of this but was a long day out birding and work early monday morning. On sunday august 29th we went to Townsend sewage lagoons . While there we saw the semi palmated and golden Plovers, short and long billed Dowitchers, greater and lesser Yellowlegs, least spotted Bairds, semi palmated Sandpipers, Killdeer, Blue Winged Teal, Sanderling, and Bobolink. >From there we headed further west about a kilometer on the same road, you come >down a hill and find a small bridge over a creek, while there and along the >road to there we saw Downy Woodpecker, Flicker, Great-crested Flycatcher, >yellow bellied Flycatcher, Catbird, White Breasted Nuthatch, Kingbird, >Hummingbird, Chickadee, Redstart, blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Yellowthroat, Winter >Wren, Blackburnian, Black+White, Golden Winged, Cape May, Magnolia, Orange >Crowned Warblers. >From there we headed down to Dunnville and found the Cattle Egret in the field >north of the cows field beside a small pond with a group of Canada Geese. >From there we dropped into Rock Point where we came across the ussual >Sandpipers with ruddy Turnstone, Red Knot, Dunlin, Western Sandpiper, a small >flock of Bonaparts Gulls. >From there we headed back up into hamilton and stopped at Woodland Cemetery >where we saw 3 Osprey, several black-crowned night Herons, Mute and Trumpeter >Swans, and Wood Ducks. Also of note for the day is our Hawk sightings, 29 Redtail hawks, 4 Sparrow hawks(American Kestrel), 3 Osprey, 1 Marsh Hawk(Northern Harrier), 9 unidentified Hawks, 12 Turkey Vultures. Seen from leaving Brampton to returning to Brampton area. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 30 20:21:02 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from fep2.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB0447EAE for <[email protected]>; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:21:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cogeco.ca (d141-160-198.home.cgocable.net [24.141.160.198]) by fep2.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBFFD35E1 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:21:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:21:01 -0400 From: Ken Newcombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [email protected] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Ontbirds]White Pelican at Hamilton Harbour X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:21:02 -0000
A White Pelican was seen at 7:48 PM today near LaSalle Park in Burlington flying south over Hamilton Harbour towards Cootes Paradise. -- Ken Newcombe Dundas, Ontario, Canada
