On Friday, August 24th, 2007, this is the HNC Birding Report: Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Long-tailed Duck Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Osprey Cooper's Hawk Virginia Rail Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Red-necked Phalarope Bonaparte's Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Black Tern Common Nighthawk Ruby-throated Hummingbird Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great-crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Red-eyed Vireo Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Brewster's Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Indigo Bunting Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch
As you can see by the longer list this week, passerine migration has picked up in the Hamilton Study Area. Many areas have been reported from this week, here are just a few. Shell Park in Oakville reported 12 species of warbler this week including Canada, Mourning, Wilson's, Blackburnian, Black-and-white, Nashville, Chestnut-sided and Magnolia Warbler, American Redstart, Ovenbird and moving with them Least Flycatcher, Red-eyed Vireo, Scarlet Tanager and Baltimore Oriole. Down the road, Paletta Park/Shoreacres in Burlington produced Yellow-bellied and Willow Flycatcher, Tennessee Warbler, Northern Waterthrush, American Redstart, Mourning and Canada Warbler last Friday. At Woodland Cemetery last weekend, Great-crested Flycatcher, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Magnolia, Chestnut-sided, Black-and-white, Canada Warbler and American Redstart were seen. At nearby LaSalle Park yesterday, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Red-eyed Vireo, Black throated-Blue, Blackburnian, Magnolia, Black -and-white Warbler, American Redstart, and Indigo Bunting. >From the Monarch Trail at the Dundas Valley Conservation Area Brewster's, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Nashville and Blackburnian Warbler were seen. At Crooks Hollow, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Bay Breasted, Chestnut-sided, and Blackburnian Warbler, Scarlet Tanager along with an Olive-sided Flycatcher always nice to find this time of year. Another great place for flycatchers this week was Courtcliffe Park in Carlisle. Seen here in the week were Olive-sided Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Eastern Phoebe and Eastern Kingbird. This park has always been rich for flycatchers this time of year and is well worth the trip up for a study of these birds. Shorebird habitat continues to be surprisingly productive with the mix changing again out in the Willows in Dundas this week. Birds seen here in the week include, Northern Pintail, Green-winged Teal, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Green Heron, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Osprey, Cooper's Hawk, Black-bellied Plover, Semipalmated Plover, Greater Yellowlegs, Lesser Yellowlegs, Spotted Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Baird's Sandpiper, Stilt Sandpiper, Short-billed Dowitcher, Red-necked Phalarope, Bonaparte's Gull, Caspian Tern, and Common Tern. Every day seems to bring a new species in to the marsh so the approaching cold front this weekend might be good to change it around again. Grimsby Sewage Lagoons also holds promise for more goodies this week with a Black Tern being reported on Monday. Black Terns are difficult to find in this area. Also seen here this week were Lesser Yellowlegs, Short-billed Dowitcher, Pectoral Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Virginia Rail and along the edges many Eastern Kingbirds hawking insects. At the end of Kelson Road a Long-tailed Duck and juvenile Sanderling were seen. The Valley Inn also produced good conditions this week with Black-bellied and Semipalmated Plover, Solitary, Least, Semipalmated Sandpiper and Lesser Yellowlegs found here in the week. Another shorebird spot found this week is Bronte Marsh down on Lakeshore just west of Bronte Road. Water levels are down here. Lesser Yellowlegs, Least Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper and Great Egret were seen on Wednesday. In the odds & sods, along the Desjardins Canal, Black-crowned Night Herons seem to be gathering. Large numbers of swallows are congregating along the Grand River near Glen Morris, out near Brantford a female Purple Finch is a regular at the feeder, odd for this time of year and a Common Nighthawk was seen flying over south Burlington last Saturday evening. Its only going to get busier here. Thanks for all your reports! Have a great week Good birding Cheryl Edgecombe HNC Hotline 905-381-0329 _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdshow.htm ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm
