To be accurate, these "York Region reports" are not comprehensive; they represent birds made known to me in the north-central part of the region. I encourage other York birders to post any local rarities or to send info about interesting sightings my way so I can roll them into a fuller weekly report. Stan Long's Markham-area reports provide information from the southeastern part of this region to help provide a fuller picture of bird movement within this area just north of Toronto. During this past week Hochreiter Road near Holland Landing has had two WILSON'S SNIPE, one LSR. YELLOWLEGS, 8 GR. YELLOWLEGS, ten male N. SHOVELERS, 40 GW TEAL and 6 BW TEAL. They were all in the flooded grasses on the south side of the road, within the last 300 metres of that bumpy, muddy road. On Wednesday Keith and Chris Dunn had a very early WARBLING VIREO, several N. WATERTHRUSH singing on territory, one RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER, and numerous YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS along Duclos Point Road on the south shore of Lake Simcoe, northeast of Keswick. On Saturday Keith, Mike Vandentillaart and Kevin Shackleton had a RED-NECKED GREBE in the canal just south of Bradford (technically Simcoe county). On the same day, several of the regional forests east of Newmarket/Aurora hosted PINE WARBLERS (and, to add some auditory confusion, Chipping Sparrows) on territory. There were numerous migrant kinglets in all of the forests - mostly Ruby-crowns, but with some GC kinglets to add visual and aural variation. When I checked the Robinson Tract on Warden Ave. for Red-shouldered Hawk Saturday afternoon I instead chanced upon a NORTHERN GOSHAWK. Ironically, when I checked the Eldred King Tract for Goshawk afterward, I observed a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK instead; it was circling high over the forest. The Robinson Tract also had two WINTER WRENS singing. Late Saturday, my sons and I stopped to watch a coyote catch a mouse in the grass along Keele Street near Kettleby, then we drove north to watch a Belted Kingfisher fishing from the bridge where Keele crosses the canal north of Hwy. 9. We did not find the RN Grebe mentioned above, but it was seen today around Jonkman's Corners by Chris Dunn and Julia Marco. At Seneca College's King City campus today I observed WOOD DUCK, SHARP-SHINNED HAWK, PINE WARBLER, OSPREY, and a PILEATED WOODPECKER, all of which nest on this very scenic property. Ron Fleming, Newmarket Since there are numerous places listed above, directions to each place would take several paragraphs. Contact me if you want specific directions. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Apr 30 16:49:00 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from sunfep1.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE1E96405C for <[email protected]>; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:48:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from georgia4d57c99 (d150-118-4.home.cgocable.net [24.150.118.4]) by sunfep1.cogeco.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 07B5B1A62 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:48:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Georgia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:48:50 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Eurasian Wigeon @ Hillman Marsh X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:49:01 -0000
Highlights @ Hillman Marsh today included a single male Eurasian Wigeon = around 10 am - amongst several American Wigeon... Both Green and = Blue-winged Teals and a single Dunlin. Georgia Roach Hillman Marsh is on the east side of Leamington. Hwy 401 to Hwy 77 = south (to Leamington).
