On Thursday, August 31st, 2006, this is the HNC Birding Report: MANX SHEARWATER
WILLET BAIRD'S SANDPIPER PARASITIC JAEGER LONG-TAILED JAEGER SABINE'S GULL PROTHONOTARY WARBLER American Wigeon Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Redhead Lesser Scaup White-winged Scoter Long-tailed Duck Common Loon Great Egret Osprey Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Phalarope sp. Common Tern Common Nighthawk Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Traill's Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Great-crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Red-eyed Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Barn Swallow Ruby-crowned Kinglet Veery American Pipit Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-White Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Rose-breasted Grosbeak Bobolink Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole The hot spot of the week, hands down, VanWagners Beach. Today at 2:00, 2:30, 2:45 and 6:15 p.m. a MANX SHEARWATER was seen from the Lakeland Community Centre on VanWagners Beach Road (just down from Hutches). East winds are supposed to increase and persist through Saturday for those wishing to try for this magnificent bird. Other birds seen this week at the beach include White-winged Scoter, Lesser Scaup, Redhead, Green-winged Teal, Northern Pintail, American Wigeon, Long-tailed Duck, Common Loon, LONG-TAILED AND PARASITIC JAEGER, Common Tern, SABINE'S GULL, WILLET, Black-bellied Plover, Sanderling, Semipalmated and BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, Phalarope sp., Ruddy Turnstone, Osprey and numerous Chimney Swifts. Shorebird enthusiasts can go to a couple of locations this week. The storm ponds on the North Service Road just west of Guelph Line had Stilt Sandpiper, Wilson's Snipe, Lesser Yellowlegs and Least Sandpiper this week. At Mountsberg C.A., viewing from Leslie Street at the back of the Conservation Area Semipalmated Plover, Stilt, Bairds, Least, Solitary, and Semipalmated Sandpiper were among shorebirds here. A Yellow-rumped Warbler flew overhead. For those who are passionate about passerines, many of the local hotspots have been good this week for migrating warblers, flycatchers, vireos. Woodland Cemetery this week had Northern Parula, Bay-breasted, Black-throated Blue, Black-and White, Blackpoll, Wilson's, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia Warbler, American Redstart, Red-eyed Vireo, Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Wood Pewee, Traill's Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird and Bobolink. At nearby Valley Inn, a number of the above warblers along with Great Egret, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Rose-breasted Grosbeak Mourning Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, and an extremely co-operative PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was photographed on Monday but was not refound on Tuesday. Fifty Point C.A. today had a great variety of birds lurking out of the wind. These included Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Wood Pewee, Least and Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Veery, Red-eyed Vireo, Philadelphia Vireo, Barn Swallow, Veery, Tennessee , Nashville, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Black-throated Blue, Black-throated Green, Blackburnian, Blackpoll, Black-and-White Warbler, American Redstart, Ovenbird, Northern Waterthrush,Wilson's Warbler, Canada Warbler and Baltimore Oriole. In the odds & sods this week, a number of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds have been seen passing through Shoreacres/Paletta in Burlington, another three American Pipits were seen on a tour of the sod farms, Common Nighthawks and an Orchard Oriole were seen in the Brantford Area, quite a late record for this latter species. That's the excitement of the week. A saugy weekend ahead but with east winds blowing and rain, a perfect combination for slugging it out at VanWagners Beach and getting some goodies!!! Have a great weekend! Cheryl Edgecombe HNC Hotline 905-381-0329
