On Friday, September 23, 2011, this is the HNC Birding Report: SABINE'S GULL PARASITIC JAEGER LONG-TAILED JAEGER
American Wigeon Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup White-winged Scoter Red-breasted Merganser Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Lesser Yellowlegs Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Lesser Black-backed Gull Common Nighthawk Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Brown Creeper Winter Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Nashville Warbler Magnolia Warbler Northern Parula Black-throated Blue Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Wilson's Warbler Lincoln's Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Rose-breasted Grosbeak Migration continues here in the area with many things to report this week. VanWagner's Beach although slower this past week still had some good birds. Last weekend SABINE'S GULL, LONG-TAILED and PARASITIC JAEGER were all being reported from here. Today a couple of PARASITIC JAEGERS were seen in the morning with one of them going after a SABINE'S GULL. Other birds reported here include American Wigeon, Northern Pintail, Green-winged Teal, Greater and Lesser Scaup, White-winged Scoter and Red-breasted Merganser, Sanderling and Lesser Black-backed Gull. Shorebirds are still in the news as well. Last night a Long-billed Dowitcher was a good find at the Valley Inn. The bird is still present today. Windermere Basin had Black-bellied and Semipalmated Plover and one Buff-breasted Sandpiper as of yesterday. The Red Hill Stormwater Pond seems to be a good place for Lesser Yellowlegs but short on other birds. Out on the sod farms behind the former school house on Unity Road in Mount Hope, American Golden Plover, Buff-breasted, Bairds and Pectoral Sandpipers were all found last weekend. Out in the Dundas Marsh the mud flat seen from the Marsh Boardwalk trail of the Royal Botanical Gardens produced Black-bellied and Semipalmated Plover, Lesser Yellowlegs, Dunlin, Semipalmated, Least, Stilt, Pectoral and White-rumped Sandpiper. Great Egrets are increasing in number in the marsh with a tagged individual being found yesterday. Lakeshore woodlots have been busy with passerines this week. At Forty Mile Creek in Grimsby Eastern Wood-Pewee, Yellow-throated Vireo, Brown Creeper Winter Wren, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Gray-cheeked and Swainson's Thrush, Gray Catbird, Brown Thrasher, Nashville, Magnolia Warbler, Northern Parula, Black-throated Blue, Black-throated Green, Blackburnian, Bay-breasted, Blackpoll and Black-and-white Warbler, American Redstart, Ovenbird and Wilson's Warbler. Moving west from there, Edgelake Park had a Blue-headed Vireo and Ovenbird to report. Confederation Park last weekend was a stopover for Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Nashville, Magnolia, Black-throated Blue, Black-throated Green Warbler, American Redstart, White-throated and Lincoln's Sparrow and Rose-breasted Grosbeak. At Shoreacres in Burlington, birds seen this week include Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Red-eyed Vireo, Swainson's and Gray-cheeked Thrush, Gray Catbird, Nashville, Magnolia, Black-throated Blue, Black-throated Green, Black-and-white Warbler and White-throated Sparrow. In the odds and sods this week. Common Nighthawks continue to filter through with reports from south Burlington, Dundas and over the Valley Inn. Over the course of the week on clear nights Veery, Swainson's and Gray-cheeked Thrush could be heard flying over. Unfortunately a couple of casualties of Gray-cheeked and Swainson's Thrush were reported as well. Now is the time to clean up those feeders. October is a good month to help birds along. If there are any late hummingbirds into the month of October, please don't hesitate to email me. Hummingbirds into October can be a totally different species than our Ruby-throated. Have a great week. Cheryl Edgecombe Hamilton Naturalists Club. _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
