AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN SNOWY EGRET
Gadwall American Wigeon Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Redhead Pied-billed Grebe Red-necked Grebe Least Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Black-crowned Night Heron Merlin Lesser Yellowlegs Least Sandpiper Dunlin Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Forster's Tern Yellow-billed Cuckoo Veery Wood Thrush Mourning Warbler Hooded Warbler American Redstart Chestnut-sided Warbler Scarlet Tanager Bobolink Orchard Oriole A few more birds to add to the list this week as family groups are starting to emerge and birds are getting more vocal and more visible. Southbound shorebirds are definitely filtering in this week. The AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN was last reported last weekend, it may still be around, if there are any further reports please let us know. The SNOWY EGRET has returned after a few days absence and was seen this morning sitting on a rock out on one of the mud spits. The Windermere Basin is still the place to be with southbound shorebirds starting to gather. This week a surprise was an extra early adult Long-billed Dowitcher in early moult found in a group of Short-billed Dowitchers today. It disappeared into the weeds and was not refound. Up to 35 Short-billed Dowitchers were seen two days ago, many of these birds are concealed in the weeds here. Other birds besides the resident Killdeer and Spotted Sandpipers include Lesser Yellowlegs, a summering Dunlin and Least Sandpipers. Waterfowl present include Northern Shoveler, American Wigeon, Northern Pintail (with four young), Green-winged Teal, Redhead, Pied-billed Grebe and American Coot. Great Egret, Great Blue Heron and Black-crowned Night Heron were also present. Another couple surprises were a Merlin which shot over the Basin early in the week and a first summer Forster's Tern which was seen mid-week. Out in the Dundas Valley at the Headwaters Trail at the end of Powerline Road, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Veery, Wood Thrush, Mourning, Hooded Warbler and Chestnut sided Warbler were seen and heard. In the odds and sods this week, Red-necked Grebes have had nesting success with one brood down at Bronte Harbour. Other nesting attempts seem to be failing with eggs one day, gone the next. On the Dofasco Trail at 11th Road East, a couple of Orchard Orioles were photographed. This species is doing well in the HSA with reports from here, the Chippewa Trail, west of Westover, McMaster Forest, Princess Point and Paddy Green Road. Scarlet Tanager and Wood Thrush were heard in the Rock Chapel area and Bobolinks are doing well up in Saltfleet with a colony present off the Dofasco Trail at 10th and 11th Road East. That's the news for this week. Please continue to forward your sightings here! Cheers, Cheryl Edgecombe HNC. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. 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
