On Friday, September 3rd, 2010 this is the HNC Birding Report:
Green-winged Teal White-winged Scoter Red-breasted Merganser Pied-billed Grebe Red-necked Grebe Osprey Bald Eagle Broad-winged Hawk Merlin Peregrine Falcon American Golden Plover Semipalmated Plover Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Ruddy Turnstone Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Red-necked Phalarope Common Tern Common Nighthawk Eastern Wood Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Purple Martin Marsh Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Swainson's Thrush Veery Cedar Waxwing Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Lincoln's Sparrow Rose-breasted Grosbeak Bobolink Purple Finch The mix has shifted this week to passerine migration here in the Hamilton Study Area. Many of the local woodlots have been good for migrating warblers, vireos, etc. and I expect that a change in the weather and passage of the cold front today and tomorrow will bring in many more birds. Waterdown Wetlands also known as Joe Sam's Park in Waterdown is an excellent location which is highly underbirded. This week at this location Olive-sided Flycatcher, Eastern Wood Pewee, Philadelphia and Red-eyed Vireo, Tennessee, Nashville, Yellow, Magnolia, Blackburnian, Bay-breasted, Blackpoll, Black-and-white Warbler, American Redstart, Ovenbird and Purple Finch were reported from this location. Another hidden jewel in the area is the Rona Ponds located behind Rona in Waterdown. Here this week were Pied-billed Grebe, Merlin, Peregrine Falcon, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Eastern Phoebe, Eastern Pewee, Marsh Wren, and Blackburnian Warbler. At Sherwood Forest Park off Prince William Drive in Burlington, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Philadelphia and Red-eyed Vireo, Swainson's Thrush, Nashville, Chestnut-sided, Black-throated Blue, Black-and-white Warbler, American Redstart and Wilson's Warbler were seen yesterday. Down at Shoreacres in Burlington, Red-necked Grebe, Eastern Wood Pewee, Great-crested Flycatcher, Warbling and Red-eyed Vireo, Carolina Wren, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Swainson's Thrush, Cedar Waxwing, Nashville Warbler, Northern Parula, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Ovenbird, American Restart, Canada and Wilson's Warblers and Rose-breasted Grosbeak were the highlights. Continuing around the west end of the Lake, at Edgelake Park in Stoney Creek today, Warbling Vireo, Nashville, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Black-throated Blue Warbler, American Restart, Ovenbird, Northern Waterthrush, a lovely male Hooded, Wilson's and Canada Warbler were highlights after a major rain storm this afternoon. At Fifty Point Conservation Area, White-winged Scoter, American Golden Plover, Common Tern, Great-crested Flycatcher, Purple Martin, Veery, Swainson 's thrush, Yellow, Magnolia, Cape May and Wilson 's warbler, American Redstart, Northern Waterthrush and Lincoln's Sparrow were highlights today. Even though winds were wrong, there were still a few good birds of note at the Lakeland Centre, VanWagner's Beach today. A distant Jaeger of unknown species was seen, Green-winged Teal, Red-breasted Merganser and American Golden Plover were birds of note today. On a zodiac trip out into the lake a record high number of Red-necked Phalaropes (26) were observed on a trip Sunday. Shorebirds are still kicking around with a few good spots to look out for them. The Red Hill Stormwater Pond was fruitful this week with, Semipalmated Plover, Baird's, Pectoral, Stilt, Semipalmated and Least Sandpiper, Short-billed Dowitcher, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs. At the Windermere Basin located off Eastport Drive, Semipalmated Plover, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Semipalmated and Least Sandpipers were present on the floating algae and on the booms. A final plug for shorebirds in the HSA is the presence of a Buff-breasted Sandpiper on Miles Road, just south of Airport Road in Hamilton yesterday. In the odds and sods, over Dundas early in the week Osprey, Bald Eagle, Broad-winged Hawk. Common Nighthawk, Nashville Warbler and Bobolink (40!) were noted. Common Nighthawks continue to migrate through with a dozen being seen in South Burlington yesterday and some today. Broad-winged Hawks were seen migrating over Sherwood Hills Park in Grimsby earlier in the week. Cheryl Edgecombe 905-381-0329 HNC Hotline _______________________________________________ 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/
