At 6:30 pm David Hallette dropped by my house in Port Credit to alerted me to the presence of a female Common Eider feeding in the most westerly lagoon of Lakeshore Promenade Park. He had located it about a hour before. We drove back to lagoon immediately found it. It was very tame, swimming with small group of mallards and diving for lengthy periods. At times we were with 50 feet of the eider. As you undoubtedly know, Common Eiders are rare at the best times, and I have never seen one here before in summer.
Directions. Lakeshore Promenade runs south off Lakeshore midway between Cawthra and Dixie Road. Keep veering right (or west) and park either on the north or south sides of the lagoon. Wayne Renaud. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 17 21:21:40 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from bay0-omc3-s2.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc3-s2.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.202]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA3E263C49 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:21:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from BAY109-W1 ([64.4.19.101]) by bay0-omc3-s2.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:21:40 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [72.139.18.197] X-Originating-Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "David Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:21:40 -0400 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Aug 2006 01:21:40.0183 (UTC) FILETIME=[A83E9670:01C6C264] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Casselman - RN Phalarope, LB Heron, Stilt Sandpiper X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:21:40 -0000 This evening I birded the Casselman Sewage Lagoon east of Ottawa. Water le= vels there are high and there is virtually no shorebird habitat, however th= ere was a pair of Red-necked Phalaropes swimming in the east cell along the= south side, close to the cattails. Also of note were 30+ Ruddy Ducks amon= gst other more common puddle ducks. =20 In addition, the juvenile Little Blue Heron discovered by Jacques Bouvier w= as still present at 7:30 pm this evening at the High Falls Conservation are= a in Casselman, feeding both above and below the old bridge. The shorebird= habitat below the bridge is quite good and, in addition to the more common= species, a Stilt Sandpiper was present. =20 Directions: =20 CASSELMAN LAGOONS (Courtesy of Larry Neily's Ottawa Birding) =20 >From Highway 417 (The Queensway), 52 km east of Ottawa, take the Casselman = exit (66) and go NNW toward the town of Casselman. Drive 1.1 km NNW into to= wn on Rue Principale, crossing the railway tracks and the main cross-street= (St. Isidore), to turn right or northeast just beyond onto Laurier. Follow= Laurier northeast, then north, 1.8 km to Concession 5 Road (or Route 500).= Turn right or northeast onto it and the road into the Casselman Sewage Lag= oons is on your right almost immediately. =20 HIGH FALLS CONSERVATION AREA =20 DIRECTIONS to HIGH FALLS : From Hwy 417 take exit 66 towards Casselman. Go= about 2 km on Rue Principale St. to the South Nation River. The High Falls= Conservation Area is on your right. Start looking from the north side of t= he river just above the weir, if not visible from there go to the south sid= e.= From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 17 21:33:28 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from extsmtp4.localnet.com (extsmtp4.localnet.com [207.251.201.56]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 486D463D89 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:33:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 4616 invoked by uid 1011); 18 Aug 2006 01:33:28 -0000 Received: from 10.0.7.18 by bombastic (envelope-from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, uid 1004) with qmail-scanner-1.23st (spamassassin: 3.0.3. perlscan: 1.23st. Clear:RC:0(10.0.7.18):SA:0(0.4/10.0):. 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Thank you, David ---------------------------------------------------------- AMERICAN AVOCET PHILADELPHIA VIREO TRICOLORED HERON STILT SANDPIPER BROAD-WINGED HAWK YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER COMMON NIGHTHAWK Green-winged Teal Blue-winged Teal Bald Eagle Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Red Knot Least Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher Caspian Tern Nashville Warbler Yellow Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Northern Waterthrush Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/17/2006 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, August 17, 2006 Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and this answering system was donated by the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings and use this system. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received August 10 through August 17 from the Niagara Frontier Region include AMERICAN AVOCET, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, TRICOLORED HERON, STILT SANDPIPER, BROAD-WINGED HAWK, YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER and COMMON NIGHTHAWK. August 16, at Rock Point Park, on the Lake Erie shore in Dunnville, Ontario, an AMERICAN AVOCET and RED KNOT. August 17 at Rock Point, no AMERICAN AVOCET, but still 15 shorebird species, 12 warbler species and a very early migrant PHILADELPHIA VIREO. The vireo was along the cliff trail at the end of Downey Road, along with NASHVILLE WARBLER, 20 YELLOW WARBLERS, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, 5 CAPE MAY WARBLERS, 2 YELLOW-R. WARBLERS, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, BL. AND W. WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, WILSON'S WARBLER and 2 CANADA WARBLERS. At the shoreline, feeding with the sandpipers, a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, plus RED KNOT, 2 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. Just north of Rock Point, at the Mosaic Ponds, 7 shorebird species highlighted by STILT SANDPIPER and 3 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, plus numbers of BLUE-WINGED TEAL and GREEN- WINGED TEAL, and 47 CASPIAN TERNS. To access the ponds, visitors must check in at the office at Rymer and Canal Roads. Still in Dunnville, at the Hutchinson and Poth Road turf farms, a combined 82 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS and 258 KILLDEER. Also in Ontario this week, two TRICOLORED HERONS above Niagara Falls, opposite Dufferine Islands Park. The Lake Erie shore is not the only location for shorebirds. Ten shorebirds in the Town of Amherst this week at the Crosspointe construction site, near the north end of Millersport Highway. The evening of August 14, a record count of 55 STILT SANDPIPERS with 52 LESSER YELLOWLEGS and 4 GREATER YELLOWLEGS descended to the mud flats after an evening rain storm. Other species at Crosspointe, multiple SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, KILLDEER, SOLITARY SANDPIPERS, SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, LEAST SANDPIPERS, PECTORAL SANDPIPERS and a SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. Early fall migrants this week included an immature BROAD- WINGED HAWK at an unexpected location, perched along Beebee Road in the Niagara County Town of Wilson; broad-wings are not known to nest in this northern county. YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER was found in the Allegany County Town of Canadea, and another YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER with a CANADA WARBLER at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. And, groups of two to three COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were noted over Buffalo, Tonawanda and Amherst. BALD EAGLE reports this week - an adult on 18 Mile Creek in Hamburg, sub-adult over Williamsville in Amherst, and 6 sub- adults BALD EAGLES congregated at the Saint Columbans property on Route 5 in the Chautauqua County Town of Sheridan. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 24. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird. - End Transcript
