There was a Lesser Black-backed Gull with loafing Ring-bills on a farmer's field at the south east corner of 16th Sideroad and the Markham Bypass at 4:30 today. Ron Scovell From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Nov 21 19:57:14 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from mail.wzrd.com (mail.wzrd.com [216.207.4.8]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 456F747FCA for <[email protected]>; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:57:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from STUDY (pm3-ppp014.dialup.wzrd.com [24.75.4.112]) by mail.wzrd.com (8.13.0/8.13.0) with SMTP id iAM0rhNc008259; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:53:47 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Willie D'Anna & Betsy Potter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "OntBirds" <[email protected]>, "NYSBirds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Geneseebirds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:53:46 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 cc: "Suggs, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Ontbirds]Niagara River - Sunday, Nov 21 and Hummingbird X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:57:14 -0000
The weather was pleasant for birding on the river today, which means not a lot of gulls. Still, there was a fair number of large gulls that were sitting on the breakwall and just off shore above the Horseshoe Falls. There was an adult and first-basic ICELAND GULL at the control gates as well as a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL (plus another all the way across). A couple hundred yards from the brink of the falls, there were five LESSERS and a different first-year ICELAND (late afternoon). Below the falls, nobody reported seeing the Sabine's Gull today or yesterday. On Friday there was a single report in the late afternoon but several others who looked were unsuccessful. Either the Sabine's Gull spends most of its time feeding somewhere else now, or it has gone. There was another LESSER BBG below the falls. At the power plants there were adult and first basic ICELAND GULLS, an adult THAYER'S (?), and a possible adult Nelson's Gull (Herring X Glaucous Gull hybrid) which flew downriver before allowing definitive study. The third basic CALIFORNIA GULL was at its usual post - on the concrete at the north corner of the Robert Moses Power dam. It is often the first gull one spots when starting from the dam and panning along the shore. There was little at the Whirlpool in the early afternoon today though a GLAUCOUS GULL was reported there in the morning. No reports from lower Queenston. The female RUFOUS/ALLEN'S hummingbird was still at the feeding station in Niagara Falls, Ontario where the owners are very welcoming. It comes in to the feeders on a regular basis and can often be found perching in a nearby Norway maple or in the bittersweet vine. Directions to the hummer: Take the QEW to the Thorold Stone Road exit in Niagara Falls. Now turn left (east) to Dorchester Road, then right (south) one block to Pettit Avenue. Take a left here and continue for about 1/2 km to Sherwood Road (directly across from First Baptist Church on the right hand side). Turn left and proceed one block to Peach Street to 4579, the second or third house on your right. Good birding! Willie -------------- Willie D'Anna Betsy Potter Wilson, N.Y. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
