AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN WHITE IBIS
BLACK TERN WHITE-EYED VIREO CERULEAN WARBLER YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER Northern Shoveler Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Bufflehead Ruddy Duck Common Loon Least Bittern Black-crowned Night Heron Semipalmated Plover Spotted Sandpiper Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Dunlin American Woodcock Common Tern Caspian Tern Yellow-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Cuckoo Olive-sided Flycatcher Louisiana Waterthrush Clay-colored Sparrow Bobolink Eastern Meadowlark Orchard Oriole Well, for a week in June, it's been a good one here in the Hamilton Study Area. As you can see by the top of the list, there are some excellent birds around the area and as you can see by this report, they are still coming in. We started off the week on Monday with four AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS which flew over Lakeshore between Walkers and Appleby Line. The quartet then did a 180 flying back over the harbour and then settling in for a couple of days on the islands off Eastport Drive. They would get up and fly around for a while, then come back to preen and fish off the islands. The last report was from Wednesday. There seem to be quite a few throughout the province. The Mega this week occurred just a short time ago when a WHITE IBIS flew over the SWOOP skydiving club just west of Clappison's Corners near Waterdown. Local birders are out now checking spots that look good for an ibis. Maybe the bird will resurface over the weekend. Today a BLACK TERN was seen early morning and was still being seen this afternoon at Windermere Basin. I place this species in capitals as it is a good date and BLACK TERN is almost non-existent in the HSA particularly in spring. In the passerine department, a CERULEAN WARBLER was singing all Tuesday morning in the World of Tree Collection at the Guelph Arboretum. Lastly a YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER was reported from the bridge at Glen Morris on Tuesday. This just in now, a WHITE-EYED VIREO was heard in the thicket on the south side of Concession 8 West about 3.5 km west of Highway 6 where there is a bridge and a parking lot on the north side of the road. Windermere Basin seems to be a bit of a hotspot these days as water levels are coming down here and some shorebird habitat is drawing birds in. This week ducks in the basin included Northern Shoveler, Greater and Lesser Scaup, Bufflehead, and Ruddy Duck. Shorebirds include Semipalmated Plover, Spotted and Semipalmated Sandpiper and Dunlin. Common and Caspian Terns are both nesting on the rock islands here. An interesting sighting between here and Canada Centre for Inland Waters a couple days ago was a huge number of Black-crowned Night Herons flying around, possibly up to 60. In the odds and sods this week, Common Loon was present off Grays Road today. Earlier in the week two were seen off Fruitland Road. Least Bittern could be heard calling on both sides of the road at the Safari Road Wetland on Safari road just east of Kirkwall Road (mosquitoes are fierce at this locale). A Sanderling was present at Confederation Park last Sunday. American Woodcock were out peenting and flying about at Kirkwall Road just south of 6th Concession West, no luck at Whip-poor-will at this site. Yellow-billed Cuckoos were reported at the end of Forest Hill in Grimsby, at the Hardy Road Trail location in Brantford, at Artaban Road in Dundas and along the Sassafras Trail at the RBG this week. Black-billed Cuckoo was heard in Bronte Creek Provincial Park and at the McMaster Forest. Olive-sided Flycatcher was seen at Bronte Creek Provincial Park last weekend and near Durand Park in Hamilton. Louisiana Waterthrush is still present in the Dundas Valley. Clay-colored Sparrows could be heard near Valens and 6th Concession. Bobolinks were seen along the Dofasco Trail between 8th and 10th Road East. Eastern Meadowlarks were seen in the field east of Kelson Road south of Highway 8. Orchard Oriole was seen off York Road at the Royal Botanical Gardens earlier in the week. There are some great birds around. On this beautiful weekend, get out and explore your local patch. Report your sightings and especially that Ibis here!!! Good Birding, Cheryl Edgecombe HNC --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide
