On Thursday, July 20th, 2006 this is the HNC Birding Report: STILT SANDPIPER SANDERLING
Red-necked Grebe Great Blue Heron Bufflehead Greater Scaup Blue-winged Teal Virginia Rail Sora Common Moorhen Killdeer Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Wilsons Snipe Black Tern Great Horned Owl Great Crested Flycatcher Cliff Swallow Brown Creeper Winter Wren Northern Waterthrush After two weeks, I finally have more than 5 birds I can talk about. My apologies to those who sent in their sightings last week, I have not forgotten. I did not have much to write about so decided to wait a week and here we are with a list a little more worth the typing about. As you can see, shorebirds are moving back into the Hamilton Study Area. Smithville Sewage lagoons are in excellent condition for shorebirds particularly the back cell. In here this week and in increasing numbers were Killdeer, Lesser Yellowlegs, Solitary , STILT, Spotted, Least and Pectoral Sandpiper and Short-billed Dowitcher and Wilsons Snipe. The Stilt Sandpipers are in adult plumage, an excellent study for this species. They were still at the lagoons as of Tuesday. Also in the cells were one Blue-winged Teal and a couple of Great Blue Herons. A week and a half ago, a Black Tern was seen over the lagoons. Grimsby Sewage Lagoons have been a little on the high side however this week Virginia Rail were reported and in the past weeks a Common Moorhen and Sora have been heard. Red-necked Grebes are nesting again down at Bronte Harbour . One chick can be seen with the adult nearby but one egg also remained unhatched. Also actively nesting down at the harbour are the colony of Cliff Swallows. On 8th concession in Flamborough in the Beverly Swamp, Great Crested Flycatcher, Brown Creeper, Winter Wren and Northern Waterthrush were reported last week. In the odds & sods a female Greater Scaup was seen on the Northeast shore of the harbour, a male Bufflehead was seen at Bronte harbour which is interesting for July, a Great Horned Owl was heard and briefly seen at Rock Chapel along the escarpment, last week two SANDERLING were seen at Fifty Point along the beach last week. Be on the lookout for more shorebirds and early passerine migrants starting in the next couple of weeks. I hope to be busier than I am now, keep me posted! Good birding, Cheryl Edgecombe HNC Hotline 905-381-0329 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 20 18:58:05 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp-03.primus.ca (mail.tor.primus.ca [216.254.136.21]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4946C638B4 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:58:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dialin-208-69.ottawa.primus.ca ([216.254.208.69] helo=chrispc) by smtp-03.primus.ca with smtp (Exim 4.50) id 1G3hT3-0001gr-BE for [email protected]; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:58:06 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Christina Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "OFO Sightings" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:08:28 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Subject: [Ontbirds]TIMMINS - nesting Northern Mockingbirds X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:58:05 -0000 Hello Ontbirds people, With enthusiastic permission from the property owner.... Today, 20 July, Wade Dumoulin called the Ottawa Bird Status Line re: a pair of NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRDS with a "nest full of young", in the backyard of his property in Timmins, ON. (The Ottawa bird line was the nearest phone # he could find to share his info). He realized that this is a species of interest in northern Ontario, and really wanted to tell someone about it! I spoke with him personally, and he is happy to have people visit, or contact him for more info about this Mockingbird family. Anyone interested may contact Wade at 705-264-5197. Good birding! Chris Lewis Ottawa
