Submitted with permission from Ontbirds coordinator.
Just returned from a 2 week trip to southern James Bay. Eight days were spent on the northeast point of Charlton Island, Nunavut, about 25 km west of the Ontario border and about 75 km northeast of Moosonee. Following is a list of birds seen on Charlton Island from September 10-18 including the highest daily total recorded. Email me privately if you’d like an Excel spreadsheet of daily totals. Best bird was an adult Thayer’s Gull, believed to be a first record for the James Bay islands. Rob Tymstra and Paul Carter Sarnia, ON [email protected] Common Loon 2 American White Pelican (skull found on beach) Double-crested Cormorant 9 Great Blue Heron 2 Snow Goose (blue) 1 Canada Goose 150 Brant 600 Tundra Swan 1 American Black Duck 30 Mallard 12 Green-winged Teal 9 Greater Scaup 40 Common Eider 3 White-winged Scoter 1 Black Scoter 100 Common Goldeneye 10 Common Merganser 5 Red-breasted Merganser 150 Bald Eagle 1 Northern Harrier 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk 4 Northern Goshawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Rough-legged Hawk 2 Osprey 1 Merlin 2 Gyrfalcon 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 Spruce Grouse 1 Sandhill Crane 2 Black-bellied Plover 60 American Golden Plover 4 Semipalmated Plover 30 Greater Yellowlegs 20 Lesser Yellowlegs 2 Ruddy Turnstone 45 Sanderling 200 Semipalmated Sandpiper 200 White-rumped Sandpiper 4 Pectoral Sandpiper 1 Dunlin 400 Common Snipe 2 Bonaparte's Gull 5 Ring-billed Gull 1 Herring Gull 50 Thayer's Gull 1 Great Black-backed Gull 3 Arctic Tern 20 Black Guillemot 2 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Gray Jay 10 Common Raven 2 Horned Lark 220 Boreal Chickadee 6 Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 Brown Creeper 1 Winter Wren 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 American Robin 5 American Pipit 100 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Yellow Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 6 Palm Warbler 4 Savannah Sparrow 10 Song Sparrow 4 Swamp Sparrow 3 White-throated Sparrow 5 Dark-eyed Junco 12 Lapland Longspur 20 Rusty Blackbird 9 _______________________________________________ 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/
