On Friday, August 06, 2010 this is the HNC Birding Report: Greater Scaup Long-tailed Duck Hooded Merganser Great Egret Black-crowned Night Heron Osprey Bald Eagle Semipalmated Plover Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Bonaparte's Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Great Black-backed Gull Great Horned Owl Common Nighthawk Ruby-throated Hummingbird Least Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Scarlet Tanager Rose-breasted Grosbeak Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole
There has been a little bit of mixing here in the Hamilton Study Area this week. The predominant migrant here continues to be birds in the shorebird category with several species being noted this week. At the Windermere Basin a floating mat of algae (located at the boom at the bridge where the basin enters the harbour), Semipalmated Plover, Spotted, Least and Semipalmated Sandpiper and a Lesser Yellowlegs were present Monday. In the middle pond at the basin, two Lesser Yellowlegs were seen. At the Redhill Stormwater pond this week an adult Stilt Sandpiper, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs were present. A Great Egret continues to be a fixture at this pond. North of here on Guelph Line north of Derry Road at the Monaghan Mushroom Farm, Solitary, Pectoral and Least Sandpipers were present earlier in the week. (Be careful not to trespass on the property itself, viewing can be done from the pull off on the road). East winds were blowing last weekend down at Van Wagner's Beach. Sightings from here last weekend included Greater Scaup, summering Long-tailed Ducks, Hooded Merganser, Bonaparte's, Lesser Black-backed and Great Black-backed Gull. Soon those winds will bring in all the specialty birds that we all look forward to seeing in late August through the fall. Down at the Grimsby Sewage Lagoons, Hooded Merganser, Black-crowned Night Heron, Solitary Sandpiper and Bonaparte's Gull were species noted here. Orchard Orioles were present here and also up on 10th Road East on the Dofasco Trail and at the Eramosa Karst on the mountain in Hamilton this week. In the odds and sods this week, Bald Eagle and Great Horned Owl were seen over Rock Chapel. A few Common Nighthawks were catching insects at the Brantford Casino earlier in the week, possible breeders or early migrants. Ruby-throated Hummingbird and Least Flycatcher were seen at Shoreacres in Burlington today. In Carlisle a gathering of numbers of Eastern Kingbirds, Scarlet Tanagers, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks and Baltimore Orioles were noted mid week perhaps a sign of birds on the move south. Great Egrets were seen at the Dundas Marsh and two Osprey are present in the Woodland Cemetery/Valley Inn. That's the news for this week. Please keep reporting your sightings and be on the lookout for those rarities which are popping up elsewhere. 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 information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
