December 1 is upon us--for the winter-bird listers I can say that the following were seen this Wednesday, Nov.29 morning, in the wetland from the southwest platform on Cranberry Marsh--- juvenile COMMON MOORHEN ( a moorhen has not been reported for 2 weeks), American Coot, Green-winged Teal, Gadwall, N.Shoveler. In the area--6 Brown-headed Cowbirds, juvenile Red-headed Woodpecker, Kingfisher, male Ring-necked Pheasant (crossing Hall's Rd.), White-throated Sparrow, 3 local Red-tailed Hawks, several N.Harriers, 1 juvenile Cooper's Hawk, and, on the lake--Redheads. Flying over were 2 N.Pintails, along with thousands of Canada Geese.
The Moorhen jumped up onto a muskrat house, whence he was mildly harassed to get off by a few Canada Geese On Nov.28 2 Trumpeter Swans and a Ring-necked Duck were in the east pond. The only recorded migratory raptor was 1 Sharp-shinned hawk, bringing the CMRW total to date (1 day to go) to 8191. >From eastbound 401-exit at Salem Rd. (in Ajax), south to Bayly, east through >LakeRidge Rd. to the first street (Hall's Rd.), south to the second parking >area near the lakefront. >From westbound 401--exit at Brock St. (in Whitby), south to Victoria, west >across the Lynde causeway to Hall's Rd. Doug Lockrey, Whitby, ON From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 29 17:01:40 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from taiga.com (mail.taiga.com [204.11.32.182]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2454063487 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:01:40 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 27874 invoked by uid 30); 29 Nov 2006 21:55:13 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 29 Nov 2006 16:11:13 -0400 Subject: [Ontbirds]HSR: Holiday Beach (29 Nov 2006) 1 Raptors X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:01:40 -0000 Holiday Beach Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 29, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 0 2564 35665 Osprey 0 0 111 Bald Eagle 0 29 124 Northern Harrier 0 411 1195 Sharp-shinned Hawk 0 301 9814 Cooper's Hawk 0 169 759 Northern Goshawk 0 14 28 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 416 492 Broad-winged Hawk 0 2 7730 Red-tailed Hawk 1 3125 4248 Rough-legged Hawk 0 24 30 Golden Eagle 0 53 63 American Kestrel 0 4 2113 Merlin 0 5 122 Peregrine Falcon 0 11 114 Unknown 29 40 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 3 Total: 1 7157 62651 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 09:00:00 Observation end time: 12:00:00 Total observation time: 3 hours Official Counter: Betty Learmouth Observers: Cherise Charron, Ian Woodfield Weather: Heavy fog covered the site during the watch. Winds were variable from the south and southeast. Raptor Observations: Several Red-tailed Hawks were seen sitting and flying around the site with one actually headed west but disappearing into the fog. Non-raptor Observations: Woodpeckers seen today included a male Northern Flicker feeding on dogwood berries near the tower base; four Downy Woodpeckers that flew around the tower all morning; a male Yellow-bellied Woodpecker that drilled on the willow to the north of the tower, and a Red-bellied Woodpecker that hung upside down in the dogwood, displaying its reddish belly. =======================================================================Report submitted by Betty Learmouth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Holiday Beach Migration Observatory information may be found at: http://hbmo.org/
