At 7:00am, Thursday, May 12th, 2005, this is the Hamilton Naturalists' Club Birding report.
WORM-EATING WARBLER BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER Red-Necked Grebe Caspian Tern Great Blue Heron Black-crowned Night Heron Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Killdeer Osprey Great Horned Owl Whip-poor Will Red-headed Woodpecker Northern Rough-winged Swallow Golden-crowned Kinglet Wood Thrush Swainson's Thrush White-Eyed Vireo Blue-Winged Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Nashville Warbler Black & White Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Black-throated Green Warber Chestnut-sided Warbler American Redstart Northern Parula Blue-winged Warbler Rose-breasted Grosbeak Clay-Colored Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Let's start with an update on the local rarities. The WORM-EATING WARBLER was last reported on Tuesday from 50 Point Conservation Area. The BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER was seen on Monday, but has not been reported since. Birders looking for the WORM-EATING WARBLER at 50 Point, also reported Magnolia, Cape May, Yellow, Yellow-rumped, Nashville, Black & White, Black-throated Blue, Black-throated Green, Chestnut-sided, Palm, Northern Parula and Blue-winged Warbler, plus American Redstart, Swainson's Thrush, Solitary Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper, and Killdeer. Elsewhere, 11 species of warbler were seen at Shell Park, along with Whip-poor Will, Clay-Colored Sparrow, White-Eyed Vireo, and Grasshopper Sparrow. The Hendrie Valley produced Great Blue Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Wood Thrush, and Northern Rough-winged Swallow, while Paletta Park on the Burlington lakeshore yielded American Redstart and a female Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Other local reports include three Osprey circling over Flamborough, Great Horned Owl in Beamsville, Red-headed Woodpecker in Vineland, and at least one pair of nesting Red-necked Grebes at Bronte Harbour. Out of town, a LITTLE BLUE HERON turned up at Toronto Island and the Long Point area produced 14 species of warbler at Old Cut, including KENTUCKY WARBLER, plus SWAINSON'S HAWK, DICKCISSEL, and Sandhill Crane. A SUMMER TANAGER was reported from Backus Woods. Further afield, several rarities were reported from Rondeau Provinvincal Park, such as KIRTLAND'S WARBLER and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER. Both of these species were reported from Point Pelee as well, along with WORM-EATING WARBLER, DICKCISSEL, and NEOTROPICAL CORMORANT (at Port Alma). That's it for this week. With the weather warming up, there should be a flood of migrants moving through in the next two weeks. So get out and enjoy the birds! GOOD BIRDING! Directions to Black-backed Woodpecker: Directions to Hyde Tract: >From Hamilton take the 403 to Hwy 6 North. Proceed north on Hwy 6 to Safari Road and then turn west on Safari. Before you get to Hyde Tract, there is a large marshy area on both sides of the road(approx 14-15km from Hwy 6) The parking lot to Hyde Tract is on the left hand side. If you hit Kikwall Road, you've gone too far. From the parking lot proceed along the main trail. This trail has a couple of smaller branches but stay to the right on the main trail past the house ruins and then onto the large cement block. When you get to the large cement block, turn left. A sidetrial appears to the right after about 30-40m. Take this sidetrail heading south for about 300m when a side trail to the right appears. Take the side trail to the right and the bird was on a tree right on the path about 150-200m on, in the area where the trail bends substantially to the left. Obviously it can occur anywhere from where we saw it, north to the cement block. Good luck. Directions to Worm-eating Warbler at Fifty Point Conservation Area: Take QEW Niagara to Fifty Road. Head toward the lake and take the North Service Road around to the first road which branches off left (sorry forgot the name). There is a sign here pointing to the Conservation Area. Enter the Fifty Point C.A. Once in the park, take the road to your right hand side and you will see the large fish pond infront of you. There is a road which runs along the east edge of this pond. Down toward the lake (north) is where we had the bird in the large willows which line the fish pond area and along the creek. ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu May 12 07:05:13 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from priv-edtnes46.telusplanet.net (defout.telus.net [199.185.220.240]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E6CB64741 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 12 May 2005 07:05:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Toshiba1 ([66.203.195.77]) by priv-edtnes46.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.04 201-2131-118-104-20050224) with SMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Thu, 12 May 2005 05:20:16 -0600 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Sandra Eadie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ontbirds" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 07:20:17 -0400 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 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Subject: [Ontbirds]Photo of Whooping Cranes, ofo.ca/photos X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Sandra Eadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 11:05:14 -0000 Ethan Meleg has provided the OFO page (www.ofo.ca/photos) with a photo of the two Whooping Cranes which visited the Bruce Peninsula recently. Jean Iron has sent a photo of the Pelee White-winged Dove. The photo of the presumed Whooping Crane seen in Quebec which I mentioned earlier is no longer at http://www.oiseauxrares.qc.ca/. Sandra Eadie Ontario Field Ornithologists Director, Web Site Coordinator www.ofo.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
