On Thursday, August 24th, 2006, this is the HNC birding report: RED KNOT SABINE'S GULL PARASITIC JAEGER OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER CONNECTICUT WARBLER
Green-winged Teal Long-tailed Duck Osprey Northern Goshawk Sora Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Common Tern Caspian Tern Common Nighthawk Chimney Swift Least Flycatcher Greast Crested Flycatcher Red-eyed Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Tufted Titmouse Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Veery Swainson's Thrush American Pipit Chestnut-Sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-Throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Black-and-White Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Rose-breasted Grosbeak Northern Oriole So many exciting things to report in the HSA this week. Migration of warblers and the beginning of Van Wagners Beach season highlights the news this week. Today at Van Wagners Beach the first PARASITIC JAEGERS were seen just after the noon hour and again tonight. Also a juvenile SABINE'S GULL was spotted today, an early record for this species. At all the lakeshore haunts, many species of warblers have been passing through. In particular this week, three reports of CONNECTICUT WARBLER at Rattray Marsh, Shell Park & Shoreacres/Paletta Park. Other reports from these areas include Osprey, Least Flycatcher, Red-eyed Vireo, Philadelphia Vireo, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Veery, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Black-throated Blue, Yellow-rumped, Bay-breasted Warbler, American Redstart, Ovenbird, Northern Waterthrush, Common Yellowthroat, Wilson's and Canada Warbler, Rose-breasted Grosbeak and Northern Oriole. Woodland Cemetery and the Valley Inn have also been good spots to visit this week with Solitary Sandpiper, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Least and Great-crested Flycatcher, Chimney Swifts, Wilsons, Black-throated Green, Bay breasted, Canada, Black-and-white Warbler, American Redstart and Ovenbird. >From North Halton, reports of several species of flycatchers moving through, a >Northern Goshawk bombing around and a Swainson's Thrush seen last Friday. Many reports of Common Nighthawks migrating over Mississauga, Oakville, Hamilton, Burlington and Dundas this week. Shorebirds are still lurking about. A juvenile RED KNOT has been present at Grimsby Sewage Lagoons and last reported a couple of days ago. Also present there Green-winged Teal, Sora, Lesser Yellowlegs, Semipalmated and Least Sandpipers and many Caspian Terns. - At the North Service Road and Guelph Line, Great Blue Heron, Lesser Yellowlegs, Semiplamated and Least Sandpipers seen here last Wednesday. In the odds & sods, an Olive-sided Flycatcher was present with many warbler species at Courtcliffe Park today, a Tufted Titmouse family has been visitng a feeder in East Oakville, four Osprey over Bayfront Park, a Northern Goshawk in the Hamilton area, and an American Pipit was seen on the sod fams near Hwy 6 and Unity Road. That's the news for this week. Many different locations are offering many varieties of birds, make sure you report them to the hotline!!! Have a great week, Cheryl Edgecombe- HNC Hotline 905-381-0329 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 24 20:14:09 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp108.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp108.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.225.206]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9392863CF5 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:14:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 88964 invoked from network); 25 Aug 2006 00:14:10 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:From:To:Subject:Date:MIME-Version:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Thread-Index:X-MimeOLE; b=4sktyL2L5apzLUC2Y2KGQVtGI+DoXAjVhW8TsKOwQAIzxSjVsGhq1n04tCb8RsGd+Hl/m9ucLS+iCQUgbNHPoOpnwMtRuBfYO6yOLzlBfBasSdEreSZlkpeqft0ngV/q5odwITlR7CYrZp89U3MZxHrgiU1uGz+oZXWi4THk1aw= ; Received: from unknown (HELO desktop) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@70.51.247.213 with login) by smtp108.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Aug 2006 00:14:10 -0000 From: "Ray Lush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:14:05 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 Thread-Index: AcbH22Am6MPOAHTCTu2XUPzo0aYvpg== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Common Nigthhawks Cannington X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:14:10 -0000 Hello Birders, While on my walk this evening I had 2 maybe 3 Common Night Hawks working the airspace above a field at the corner of 18a and County road 12 in Cannington. Ray Lush Cannington
