A couple of pleasant hours at the Holland Landing lagoons this morning Aug. 24 were highlighted by a Marbled Godwit in adult non-breeding plumage. I last saw the bird flying from lagoon 2 to lagoon 4 as I was leaving at 12 noon, although it had spent most of the preceding two hours in lagoon 1. All three of the above lagoons continue to contain excellent shorebird habitat. Other birds present included: 2 Stilt Sandpipers (1 in crisp, brightly-fringed juvenile plumage, 1 adult extensively moulted into non-breeding plumage), 5 Short-billed Dowitchers, 4 Semipalmated Plovers, 1 Solitary Sandpiper, many Killdeer, many Lesser Yellowlegs, and about 200 peeps. Good birding Don Wiens Richmond Hill, ON DIRECTIONS: (from Ron Fleming) The Holland Landing lagoons are just north of Newmarket, which in turn is about 30 minutes directly north of Toronto. From Davis Drive/Hwy. 9 in mid-Newmarket, turn north at the lights on Yonge Street (the Upper Canada Mall will be on the NW side of this busy intersection). Drive past all the "big box" stores in the north part of Newmarket (past Tim Horton's, Canadian Tire, Home Depot, Future Shop, Costco, Silvercity Cinemas, etc.) and past the Victory Church to the stoplights beside Brooklin Concrete and the Newmarket Inn (this is about 2 km north of Green Lane). Turn right into Holland Landing and follow the curving descent to the lights at the bridge (don't take the left near the bottom of the hill). The bridge crosses the railway tracks, then the East Holland River. Go north past Mount Albert Rd. You will be on Old Yonge Street. Keep going north through town, past Beckett Ave. You will go through a little curve in the road where there are conifer stands on both sides, then you will pass Doane Rd. on the right. About a km after that you will see two white wagon wheels and a Maximum 60 sign; this is Cedar St. Turn right (east) and follow it to the dead end. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 24 17:38:21 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from fep1.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B2FA63B3D for <[email protected]>; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:38:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from DFDY3391 (d141-164-19.home.cgocable.net [24.141.164.19]) by fep1.cogeco.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F9F211C3A for <[email protected]>; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:38:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Jim Heslop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:38:26 -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 V6.00.2900.2962 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:51:03 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds] Parasitic Jaeger @ Hamilton's VanWagners Beach @ the east end of Lake Ontario X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:38:21 -0000
At 1:11 pm today, Barry Cherier and I joined forces to identify a = Parasitic Jaeger off Van Wagners Beach,=20 (shortly after some folks had to return to work from their lunch hour), = more to come I'm sure. Directions to Van Wagners Beach: (as per Rob Dobos) >From the QEW highway coming from the west, take the Woodward Ave exit; = turn right at the stoplight at the end of the ramp;=20 turn right at the next lights onto Beach Blvd, go under the QEW, then = turn right again at the lights onto Van Wagners Beach Rd. =20 Continue about 1 km to the parking lots near Hutch's Restaurant. >From the QEW coming from the east, take the Hwy 20 exit (Centennial = Parkway); go north to the North Service Rd;=20 turn left at the lights; continue east as the road bends right then left = and becomes Van Wagners Beach Dr;=20 continue about 1 km to the parking lots near Hutch's Restaurant. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 24 19:20:12 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from e450.mnsi.net (e450.mnsi.net [216.8.137.207]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 375736348B for <[email protected]>; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:20:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (dyn216-8-170-99.ADSL.mnsi.net [216.8.170.99]) by e450.mnsi.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k7ONK81v029019 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:20:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:19:59 -0400 From: Bea & Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ontbirds <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Ontbirds]Common Night Hawks in Wheatley X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:20:12 -0000 A flock of over 100 Common Nighthawks is currently feeding with gulls, swallows and swifts in the skies over Wheatley. They appear to be enjoying a meal of queen ants Good Birding Bruce B & B's Bed and Breakfast 216 Erie St S BOX 98 Wheatley ON N0P2P0 http://www.bandbsbandb.com 1-800-851-3406 toll free 1-519-825-8008 local
