AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN SNOWY EGRET
American Wigeon Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Redhead White-winged Scoter American Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Black-crowned Night Heron Green Heron American Coot Semipalmated Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Upland Sandpiper Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Bonaparte’s Gull Forster’s Tern Red-headed Woodpecker Yellow Warbler There has been some moving around of birds in the HSA this week. Yesterdat, a surprise was a pair of juvenile AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS at the Windermere Basin. The birds were present for a good portion of the day yesterday but took off and headed towards the bay about 2 p.m.. Perhaps they will join the other long staying AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN in Cootes Paradise. The SNOWY EGRET, present since June 10th, was present again yesterday, no reports from today but we will see on the weekend. Windermere Basin is definitely the hotspot again this week with the action changing every day. Here this week are continuing ducks including American Wigeon, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Green-winged Teal and Redhead. An American Bittern was seen flying around the basin last Saturday after a bout of severe thunderstorms hit the area. The basin is also a great place for herons and of course shorebirds. Birds seen here this week include one untagged Great Egret, Great Blue Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Green Heron, American Coot, Semipalmated Plover, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Sanderling, quite a few Semipalmated and Least Sandpipers, up to three Stilt Sandpipers and a few Short-billed Dowitchers. An adult Bonaparte’s Gull was present yesterday and Sunday a good find was of three first summer Forster’s Terns in with the Common Terns. Young Caspian and Common Terns can now be seen accompanying their parents out on the mud flat. Some fields up in Saltfleet are holding water but need rain to replenish them. Up on 5th Road East, some Least Sandpipers were seen in a field on the west side of 5th between Powerline and Green Mountain. In the odds and sods this week, two White-winged Scoters were seen on the bay Tuesday with three being seen at the end of Guelph Line on Wednesday. Six adult Bonaparte’s Gulls flew past Canada Centre for Inland Waters on Tuesday. A Red-Headed Woodpecker was seen north of St. George on July 21st. Yellow Warblers are first to migrate and a migrant was reported from a back yard in Brantford this week. It’s almost August and things will be starting to shift again. Let me know what you see on the front lines. Good Birding, Cheryl Edgecombe _______________________________________________ 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
