This is an official posting from the High Park Raptor Watch. Station: High Park, Toronto, Ontario View Period: September 4 - 10, 2006 Station coordinator: Don Barnett Counters: D. Barnett, B. Carswell, C. Harte, M. Kelch, N. McHugh & H. Shapiro The following are our totals for the past week and year to date: Species Sept 4 - 10 Year to Date Turkey Vulture.................4...................5..... Osprey.........................7...................7..... Bald Eagle.....................9...................9..... Northern Harrier..............14..................14..... Sharp-Shinned Hawk...........256.................257..... Cooper's Hawk.................27..................27..... Northern Goshawk...............-...................-..... Red-shouldered Hawk............-...................-..... Broad-winged Hawk.............54..................55..... Red-tailed Hawk...............51..................53..... Rough-legged Hawk..............-...................-..... Golden Eagle...................-...................-..... American Kestrel..............68..................69..... Merlin.........................5...................5..... Peregrine Falcon...............4...................4*.... Other(Swainson's Hawk).........-...................-..... Unidentified..................12..................12..... Total........................511.................517..... *Totals for Peregrine Falcon may be high due to local birds which are unintentionally counted as migrating individuals. High Park Site Description High Park is a 400 acre wooded park dominated by a Black Oak Savannah located just west of Downtown Toronto near Keele and Bloor. The park is operated by the City of Toronto Parks Department. The Count site (Hawk Hill) is located on a small hillat the north end of the Grenadier Restaurant parking lot. It is located about 1.5km (1 mile) north of Lake Ontario, at an elevation of 110 metres above sea level and 38 metres above Lake Ontario. The site location is N 43 degrees 37 minutes 03.8 seconds, W 79 degrees 28 minutes 56.5 seconds. This station is at the highest point and near the centre of the park; a steep slope that descends to a large pond is immediately west of the station. Full time counts have been recorded here since 1993. The following are partners in our raptor migration monitoring in the Greater Toronto Region: City of Toronto Parks and Culture Department, Toronto Ornithological Club, and Local Naturalist's Clubs. More information including a summary of our past observations is available at: http://www.torontobirding.ca/~gtrw/ Observations for this season are not yet available. -- Howard Shapiro From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Sep 12 11:55:14 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from mx5-3.spamtrap.magma.ca (mx5-3.spamtrap.magma.ca [209.217.78.138]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CABEF638E2 for <[email protected]>; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:55:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail1.magma.ca (mail1.internal.magma.ca [10.0.10.11]) k8CFrwaj001384; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:55:13 -0400 Received: from oemcomputer.magma.ca (ottawa-hs-64-26-148-35.d-ip.magma.ca [64.26.148.35]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail1.magma.ca (Magma's Mail Server) with ESMTP id k8CFmU5m015423; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:48:32 -0400 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:42:09 -0400 To: [email protected] From: Gordon Pringle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-magma-MailScanner-Information: Magma Mailscanner Service X-magma-MailScanner: Clean X-Spam-Status: Subject: [Ontbirds]Ottawa/Gatineau 10Sep06... Western Sandpiper, Connecticut Warbler, Great Egret, Caspian Tern X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:55:14 -0000
- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 10 September 2006 * ONOT0609.10 - Birds mentioned GREAT EGRET Redhead Sanderling WESTERN SANDPIPER White-rumped Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher CASPIAN TERN Eastern Screech-Owl Red-headed Woodpecker CONNECTICUT WARBLER Eastern Towhee Clay-colored Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Rusty Blackbird - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 10 September 2006 number: 613-860-9000 for the status line : press 2 for rare bird alerts: press 1 to report a sighting: press # coverage: Ottawa/Gatineau (Can. Nat. Capital Reg.), E.Ont., W.Que. compiler : Chris Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] transcriber: Chris Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet : Gordon Pringle [EMAIL PROTECTED] OFNC BIRD STATUS LINE - SUN, SEP 10 2006 AT 9:20 PM This is the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Clubs Bird's Status Line at 9:20 pm on Sunday, September 10, 2006. This is Bev McBride reporting. Warblers and other fall migrants are still moving through the area in good numbers. On September 9th two CASPIAN TERNS and three GREAT EGRETS were seen from the Shirley's Bay causeway, along with various shorebirds including Baird's, White-rumped and Pectoral Sandpipers and Short-billed Dowitchers. The Bioblitz in Larose Forest on September 9 uncovered 10 species of warbler including a CONNECTICUT WARBLER just off the 6th Concession west of Bourget. On the evening of September 7 an Eastern Screech-owl could be heard in Forest Park, Embrun. The Seedathon team, raising funds to stock the OFNC's bird feeders, tallied 134 species on their count on September 4. Highlights included a WESTERN SANDPIPER at Shirley's Bay, five Redheads in the Ottawa River at Constance Bay, a Sanderling along the Ottawa River at the west end of Andrew Haydon Park and a very early Rusty Blackbird at the St. Albert sewage lagoon. Five Red-headed Woodpeckers were present at Constance Bay in the Whistler St. old burn. There was an Eastern Towhee in the Carp Hills along the Thomas Dolan Parkway and 17 species of warblers in the Shirley's Bay woods and Britannia woods. Clay-coloured, Field, Grasshopper and Vesper Sparrows were found in the old field area near the international airport at Leitrim and Bowesville Roads. Remember that the Shirley's Bay causeway is on National Defence property. Birders must obtain permission to enter by contacting range control at 991-5740. Thank you, and good birding. - End transcript
