July 19 - At Rock Point Provincial Park (which is on the north shore of Lake Erie 50 km west of the source of the Niagara River and Fort Erie, Ontario) there were 8 Shorebird species as well as good numbers of shorebirds. SANDERLINGS 3 Short-billed Dowitcher 2 Semipalmated Sandpiper 28 Semipalmated Plover 1 Least Sandpiper 20 Lesser Yellowlegs 16 Killdeer 16 Spotted Sandpiper 19 Three kilometers due north on Rymer Road the Mosaic Ponds produced 4 shorebird species and a male Ruddy Duck. Moving east along the shore toward the Niagara River at Long Beach there were 4 shorebird species and 110 Common Terns which seem to be doing well despite the loss of the Port Colburn colony. At Morgan's Point there were two female and one male Red-breasted Mergansers and on the east side of Morgan's Point my only PECTORAL SANDPIPER with 5 shorebird species and 58 Common Terns. At Windmill Point in Fort Erie there were 40 Common Mergansers. Best Wishes for Great Birding, Bill Watson
************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 19 18:29:53 2007 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp.wincom.net (smtp.wincom.net [209.216.129.21]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EAC4634AA for <[email protected]>; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:29:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tom3f917072490 (unverified [207.112.47.170]) by wincom.net (WINCOM Internet Mail Service) with ESMTP id 83991389 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:29:53 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Tom Hince" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ONTBIRDS" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:29:53 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-Vpipe: restarted=26 started av_avast (av_avast) X-SpamDetect: : 0.100000 Poly=0.1 X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 0, First 0, in=2, out=0, spam=0 Known=true X-External-IP: 207.112.47.170 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Least Flycatcher - Wheatley, ON X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:29:54 -0000 Hey folks: Had my first fall Least Flycatcher in the backyard today, July 19th. Wheatley is on the edge of Essex/Kent Counties about 15 minutes drive = northeast of Point Pelee National Park. Good birding, Tom Tom Hince Wild Rose guest house Wheatley, ON N0P2P0 www.wincom.net/~peleetom From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 19 20:14:33 2007 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from extsmtp5.localnet.com (extsmtp5.localnet.com [207.251.201.57]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2582F638A5 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:14:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 5457 invoked by uid 1012); 20 Jul 2007 00:14:33 -0000 Received: from 10.30.201.13 by nolster (envelope-from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, uid 1005) with qmail-scanner-2.01st (spamassassin: 3.1.7-deb. perlscan: 2.01st. Clear:RC:0(10.30.201.13):SA:0(0.6/4.0):. 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Thank you, David ---------------------------------------------------------- AMERICAN AVOCET WILLET CLAY-COL. SPARROW RED-HEADED WDPKR. Pied-billed Grebe Pied-billed Grebe Great Egret Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Ruddy Duck Osprey Bald Eagle Sharp-sh. Hawk Wild Turkey Common Moorhen Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Caspian Tern Black Tern Acadian Flycatcher Common Raven Eastern Bluebird Blue-headed Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Chestnut-s. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Prairie Warbler American Redstart Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Vesper Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Baltimore Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/19/2007 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, July 19, 2007 Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and this answering system was donated by the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings and use this system. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received July 12 through July 19 from the Niagara Frontier Region include AMERICAN AVOCET, WILLET, CLAY-COL. SPARROW and RED-HEADED WDPKR. July 17 on the Lake Erie shore at Dunkirk Harbor, an AMERICAN AVOCET and a WILLET on the Main Street beach throughout the day. In the evening, likely the same AMERICAN AVOCET, ten miles up the shore at the mouth of Silver Creek, at Jackson Street in the Village of Silver Creek. There have been no reports since the 17th. Other shorebirds this week - Batavia Waste Water Plant, KILLDEER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER, plus 3 RING-NECKED DUCKS, LESSER SCAUP, 27 RUDDY DUCKS, PIED-BILLED GREBE and COMMON MOORHEN. At Woodlawn Beach State Park in Hamburg, 12 LEAST SANDPIPERS with KILLDEER and SPOTTED SANDPIPER. And a night migrant GREATER YELLOWLEGS was heard over the Town of Tonawanda. From Cattaraugus County, July 16, 4 CLAY-COL. SPARROWS, PRAIRIE WARBLER and 2 COMMON RAVENS at Keller and Hillicker Roads in the Town of Yorkshire. In the Town of Ashford, at Thomas Corners and Bond Road, 5 VESPER SPARROWS, and near by at Rozyk Hill Road near the railroad tracks, 7 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS. July 15 in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a total of 55 GREAT EGRETS between the Lewiston Overlook and Griswold Road. Also in the area, OSPREY on the nest platform, 36 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 21 BLACK TERNS and one CASPIAN TERN. From Chautauqua County this week, at Wheeler's Gulf in the Town of Pomfret, 4 ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS, plus WILD TURKEY, RED-EYED VIREO, CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., AMERICAN REDSTART, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, HOODED WARBLER and DARK-EYED JUNCO. In Arkwright, another ACADIAN FLYCATCHER and SHARP-SH. HAWK, and on Meadow Road, a BLUE-HEADED VIREO. And at Saint Columbans in Sheridan, 4 sub-adult BALD EAGLES. Other reports this week - From a yard in the Derby area of Hamburg, a RED-HEADED WDPKR. At Erie County's Emery Park in Aurora, 15 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS. And in an Eggertsville yard in Amherst, a BALTIMORE ORIOLE feeding on the blossoms of trumpet vine. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, July 26. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird. - End Transcript
