Peter Hogenbirk and I birded Oshawa Creek south of Bloor St. today and found a Winter Wren, a Flicker and a Turkey Vulture. At Oshawa Second Marsh we added 5 Swamp Sparrows, a Cooper's Hawk and a Marsh Wren. No sign of the King Eider or Barrow's Golden-eyes see on the Oshawa CBC. We did have 1000+ Greater Scaup and one redhead.
Peter also has a Yellow-rumped Warbler at his feeder but I missed it today. Geoff Carpentier Ajax, Ontario From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 21 18:58:45 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from mta10.adelphia.net (unknown [68.168.78.202]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6197463478 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:58:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from main ([70.39.114.22]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with SMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:58:44 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "John Pogacnik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ontario Birds" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:58:42 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Subject: [Ontbirds]Lake Erie Island CBC totals X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:58:45 -0000 Here are the final results for the Lake Erie Islands Christmas Bird Count. This was one of the best counts we have had with some unusual sightings and some very high numbers a few species. We ended up with 81 species seen count day and 6 additional species seen count week. Some of the best finds were brant, golden eagle, purple sandpiper (4), California and Iceland gull, long-eared and northern saw-whet owl, and rose-breasted grosbeak (2). There were a number of high counts including bufflehead (2,023), common goldeneye (2,376), northern flicker (79), golden-crowned kinglet (168), hermit thrush (110), and American robin (1,693), Islands covered were Pelee, North Bass, Middle Bass, South Bass, and Kelley's Islands. TOTAL Common Loon 51 Horned Grebe 15 Grebe spp CW Pied-billed Grebe 1 Double-crested Cormorant 20 Great Blue Heron 3 Canada Goose 259 BRANT 1 Tundra Swan 10 Gadwall 53 American Wigeon 6 American Black Duck 126 Mallard 660 Mallard x American Black Duck 3 Redhead 1 Ring-necked Duck CW Canvasback 1 Lesser Scaup 2 Scaup spp. 24 SURF SCOTER 1 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 2 Bufflehead 2023 Common Goldeneye 2376 Hooded Merganser 8 Common Merganser 20 Red-breasted Merganser 1370 Merganser spp. 4 Turkey Vulture 1 GOLDEN EAGLE 1 Bald Eagle 10 Northern Harrier CW Sharp-shinned Hawk 3 Cooper's Hawk 4 Red-tailed Hawk 13 MERLIN CW Ring-necked Pheasant 8 Killdeer 2 PURPLE SANDPIPER 4 American Woodcock CW Shorebird spp. 2 Bonaparte's Gull 375 Ring-billed Gull 1209 CALIFORNIA GULL 1 Herring Gull 875 ICELAND GULL 1 Great Black-backed Gull 40 Gull spp. 5 Mourning Dove 23 Rock Pigeon CW Eastern Screech-Owl 16 Great Horned Owl 12 LONG-EARED OWL 1 NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL 2 Belted Kingfisher 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 64 YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER 3 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 112 Northern Flicker 79 Blue Jay 26 American Crow 59 Black-capped Chickadee 500 White-breasted Nuthatch 4 Brown Creeper 66 Carolina Wren 86 Winter Wren 8 Golden-crowned Kinglet 168 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6 Kinglet spp. 3 Eastern Bluebird 25 Hermit Thrush 110 American Robin 1693 European Starling 23250 AMERICAN PIPIT 4 Cedar Waxwing 123 Yellow-rumped Warbler 103 Warbler spp 1 Eastern Towhee CW American Tree Sparrow 62 Song Sparrow 13 Swamp Sparrow 9 White-throated Sparrow 153 White-crowned Sparrow 2 Sparrow spp. 2 Dark-eyed Junco 150 Snow Bunting 1 Northern Cardinal 196 ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK 2 Red-winged Blackbird 7 Rusty Blackbird 3 Common Grackle 3 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 Purple Finch 8 House Finch 262 American Goldfinch 47 House Sparrow 367 Total 37435 John Pogacnik 4765 Lockwood Road Perry, OH 44081 440-259-2751
