On Friday, August 29th, 2008 this is the HNC Birding Report: YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT HERON SABINE'S GULL PARASITIC JAEGER LONG-TAILED JAEGER
Northern Shoveler Green-winged Teal White-winged Scoter Hooded Merganser Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Red-necked Grebe Least Bittern Green Heron Osprey Bald Eagle Sandhill Crane Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Red-necked Phalarope (Probable) Bonaparte's Gull Black Tern Common Nighthawk Eastern Wood Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Traills Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Tufted Titmouse Swainson's Thrush Nashville Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Baltimore Oriole What a great week its been here in the Hamilton Study Area. Our first east winds have brought in the expected goodies but its always nice to have them come back! The week started Monday on northwest winds with LONG-TAILED and PARASITIC JAEGER being seen from Fifty Point Conservation area along with Common Loon, Bonaparte's' Gull and White-winged Scoter. The trend continued and enhanced on Tuesday and Wednesday with the winds switching to the east. On Tuesday both of the above species were seen several times during the day along with Green-winged Teal, Phalaropes (probably Red-necked, 15 of them being seen on the water sometimes flushed by a Jaeger) and White-winged Scoter. On Wednesday, SABINE'S GULL, Black Tern and Sanderling were added to the pot. A nice mixture of birds and more to come I'm sure. Another great find this week was a half day wonder a juvenile YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT HERON found at Forty Mile Creek in Grimsby. A good spot for shorebirds in the area seems to be on 5th Road East between Green Mountain and Powerline Road. In a wet field traditional for the first spring Wilson's Snipe, birds seen here this week included Killdeer, Spotted, Solitary, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Semipalmated, Least, Baird's and Pectoral Sandpiper and 19 Wilson's Snipe. At the Grimsby Sewage Lagoons, the water is still high and construction is still going on. Lesser Yellowlegs and Semipalmated Sandpiper along with Green-winged Teal, Shoveler, Hooded Merganser and Pied-billed Grebe were birds seen here. In spots along the lakeshore this week ranging from Shell Park in Oakville, Paletta/Shoreacres in Burlington, Edgelake Park in Stoney Creek to Fifty Point Conservation Area in Grimsby, a number of the woodlots were good for migrants this week. Birds seen here include Eastern Wood Pewee, Yellow-bellied, Traills, Least and Great Crested Flycatcher, Warbling, Philadelphia and Red-eyed Vireo, Tufted Titmouse (in Shell Park with a flock of Chickadees), Nashville, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Black-throated Blue, Black-throated Green, Blackburnian, Bay-breasted, Black-and-white Warbler, American Redstart, Ovenbird, Northern Waterthrush, Common Yellowthroat, Wilson's and Canada Warbler and Baltimore Oriole. In the odds and sods this week, Sandhill Cranes, 2 adults and 1 immature were seen just south of Cayuga at the corner of Reg Rd 17 and Concession 1 South on Wednesday. Common Nighthawks were seen over Dundas and over Oakville this week. An Osprey was viewed over the Grand River in Brantford. A Bald Eagle was seen over the Dundas Marsh on Wednesday. Last but certainly not least (pardon the pun!!!) Least Bitterns have successfully nested in the Bronte Marsh with three juveniles being photographed this week. That's the news this week. Another great long weekend. Please send your sightings along. 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/information/ontbirdssetup.php ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdsguide.php
