PARASITIC JAEGER
Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night Heron Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Bairds Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Phalarope Great Black-backed Gull Common Tern Forster's Tern Yellow-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk Olive-sided Flycatcher Brown Creeper Winter Wren Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Northern Waterthrush Canada Warbler It's been another semi quiet week here in the Hamilton Study area but this week the trailer was released for the big fall show of the west end of Lake Ontario. Seen at the end of Green Road on Tuesday was an early adult Parasitic Jaeger. It's all we needed to get the party started. East to northeast winds are best. In my opinion the best local forecast to check out is the Environment Canada forecast for Burlington which gives conditions just off the lift bridge. Nothing is ever guaranteed but conditions are favourable over the next two days for some movement. Late day is best for the lighting. If you are in the area, you may want to check out the Windermere Basin located just off Eastport drive just south of the Outdoor travel RV sales centre. Here this week, the Red Knot continues to be the highlight but other shorebirds seen include Black-bellied and Semipalmated Plover, Killdeer, Spotted and Solitary Sandpiper Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Sanderling, Semipalmated, Least, White-rumped, Bairds, Pectoral and Stilt Sandpiper, Short-billed Dowitcher and Wilson's Phalarope. Heron's include Great Blue, Green and Black-crowned Night Heron as well as up to six Great Egrets. Common Terns which have been absent for some time made a brief appearance yesterday and a young Forster's Tern was present on Tuesday. In the odds and sods this week, an adult Great Black-backed Gull was seen cruising the west end of the lake. A Yellow-billed Cuckoo was seen and photographed skulking in the thickets at Rock Chapel in Flamborough, a hard migrant to find in the fall. Common Nighthawks seem to be on the move with birds seen over Hamilton this week last Saturday and again last night. Two Olive-sided Flycatchers were seen from a yard in east Oakville, tonight in the same yard a Winter Wren was an unexpected guest at the house. A Brown Creeper was also reported from Rock Chapel, wandering breeder or migrant???? Yellow-bellied Flycatcher and Northern Waterthrush were migrants at Shell Park in the week and a female type Canada Warbler was the only migrant seen at Shoreacres in Burlington today. Things will pick up significantly in the next week with passerine migration. That's the news for this week. It will be a nice weekend to get out and explore your local patch or perhaps a new one. Report your sightings here! Good birding, 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
