A beautiful orange-red-bellied Short-billed Dowitcher (in breeding plumage)-- Limnodromus griseus hendersoni-- was seen busily sewing-machine-feeding with many peeps in the afternoon of May 22 in the Pringle Creek mudflats to the east of the Brock St. (Whitby) causeway bridge.
As Frank Pinilla e-mailed (qv) warblering in Thickson's Woods was great during the morning, albeit the tree-leafing is a challenge. Counting the Chat the records show at least 20 warblers. Other notables were-- Orchard Oriole, Eastern Wood Pewee and a Bald Eagle flying over before noonhour. And, oh yes, 2 of us found the true Solomon's Seal in flower. Besides the Wild Turkeys possibly showing along Hall's Rd. you may see and/or hear the following at either Cranberry Marsh platform-- Common Moorhen, Virginia Rail, Sora. Best wishes for birding in the "southern clime" while I take in the Bruce for a week. For Pringle Creek--exit 401 at Brock St, (in Whitby), south beyond Victoria to the bridge. For Thickson's-- exit 401 at Thickson Rd. in southeast Whitby, south towards the lake, turning east on the roadway along the north side of the pine woods. Doug Lockrey, Whitby From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon May 22 20:51:26 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from web52709.mail.yahoo.com (web52709.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.48.232]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25F9263A7B for <[email protected]>; Mon, 22 May 2006 20:51:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 83932 invoked by uid 60001); 23 May 2006 00:51:26 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=HNKUON04AlAa2weew2NJB9jiz4Z8Yjnf4UgkXodQnx/XJPWNwmEHYZOc8f8XcORVwnijoOo3l3nYJbtq2rUpNRk9uyit+p0MEkn9Q+6pNQFQZj0Iv7HTsJSc5krdcKokKl8k0PfQbg8+WpkpzlA4VNlsOgeAZU+ygMb9CvjuY2k ; Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from [72.139.201.248] by web52709.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 22 May 2006 17:51:26 PDT Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:51:26 -0700 (PDT) From: "E. Smout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ontbirds <[email protected]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [Ontbirds]Shorebirds at Kent 3 & the Merlin Road X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 00:51:26 -0000 Hi All At 6pm this evening there were still a decent number of shorebirds on the fields at the northwest corner of Highway 3 and the Merlin Road, Kent 7. We estimated a few hundred Black Bellied Plover, ~50 Dunlin, ~20 Ruddy Turnstones and approximately 10 Semipalmated Plover. These fields are extremely large and the haze and the winds made it very difficult to get any kind of accurate count. Birds were also seen on the east side of the Merlin Road, approximately 2 km north of #3. They seem to favour the wetter fields. I noted in today's Pelee report that they had had few reports from the north end of the park. Last evening we stopped in at Sanctuary where we saw a dozen warbler species, Cedar Waxwings and many, many, many(!) more of the usual suspects seen at Pelee yesterday. It was excellent. It was also interesting to note how much of the west side of the tip was underwater. I have never seen so little beach area at Sanctuary. There is less than half of the beach than before the severe high winds of May 11 which seemed to me to be the catalyst of much of tip erosion. Good Birding, Ellen Smout London, Ont. Directions as per Tom Hince's email May 17. The Chatham-Kent plover fields are along Kent Rd 3 [formerly Hwy 3] about mid way between Blenheim and Wheatley. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon May 22 21:24:51 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from mh1.kwic.com (mh1.kwic.com [205.150.58.4]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FF8E63C84 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 22 May 2006 21:24:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from DFCTFM71 (ct-4-sim-ppp59.kwic.com [209.47.103.69]) by mh1.kwic.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id k4N1Ool76701 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 22 May 2006 21:24:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Chauncey Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 21:24:45 -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]Whimbrel at Port Ryerse X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 01:24:51 -0000 This morning between 8:20 and 8:40 three flocks of Whimbrel totalling an even 100 birds flew west over Long Point Bay and past our house. Later in the morning, at about 10:30, a flock of approximately 50 Whimbrel was noted flying from west to east -- probably looking for a place to rest. --Chauncey & Sarah Wood Port Ryerse is an unincorporated hamlet about 6 km west of Port Dover on the north shore of Lake Erie. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 23 16:33:26 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from fep3.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50FFF63D55 for <[email protected]>; Tue, 23 May 2006 16:33:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from videoedge (d141-150-198.home.cgocable.net [24.141.150.198]) by fep3.cogeco.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 3853D16060 for <[email protected]>; Tue, 23 May 2006 16:33:07 -0400 (EDT) From: "Cheryl Edgecombe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 16:33:04 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 Importance: Normal Subject: [Ontbirds]Curlew Sandpiper reported from Townsend Sewage Lagoons X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 20:33:26 -0000 I have received a personal report from James Lees a British birder who is visiting here. Today from Townsend Sewage Lagoons he has reported I stoped at Townsend sewage pools near Jarvis. Here I found an adult Summer plumage CURLEW SANDPIPER feeding with Shor-billed Dowitcher -9 Least Sand-138 Semipalmated sand-4 Spotted Sand-11 Dunlin-220 Lesser Yellowlegs-3 He asked me to post to ONTBIRDS. He is an excellent birder and this is too good a bird for others to miss!!! Cheers, Cheryl Edgecombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Directions to Townsend: For Townsend Lagoons turn right from Highway 6 to # 69 to Townsend. Turn left on Keith Richardson Parkway. Go to Concession 14, turn right and go about 750 m. Lagoons are on your right.
