EARED GREBE WESTERN GREBE FISH CROW ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Great Egret Black-crowned Night Heron Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Pectoral Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Bonaparte's Gull Caspian Tern Common/Forster's Tern Great Horned Owl Snowy Owl Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe Common Raven Tree Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Tufted Titmouse Winter Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Lapland Longspur Rusty Blackbird
What a wild weather week it's been here in the HSA. Now we can see the light as a string of nice days with southwest winds are ahead of us. Still some birds moved in and there were definitely some highlights this week. The new find of the week was an EARED GREBE seen in the Hagersville Quarry Ponds on Thursday. The WESTERN GREBE (probably the most frustrating bird for me this spring) was seen on Tuesday in rough waters off Saddington Park. Attempts to locate the bird last weekend and yesterday came up with Zero. It could still be out there, lots of area to cover. Red-necked and Horned Grebes were out there yesterday but in slightly less numbers than the weekend before. FISH CROW is in the news again. A single bird was seen and heard calling continuously as it flew over Bronte Bluffs from east to west on Wednesday. Interestingly a pair of Common Ravens was seen at the same location five minutes earlier with nesting material. The ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen at Sedgewick Park this week, a successful overwinter for this bird. Maybe next year it will get the message! New arrivals this week include Great Egret over Valley Inn and hiding in the reeds at Windermere Basin, Black-crowned Night Heron at Bronte Harbour, Osprey back on the tower at Hwy 6 and the 403, Caspian Tern seen from Canada Centre for Inland Waters, Bonaparte's Gulls at Saddington Park in Mississauga, Common/Forster's Tern at Bronte Harbour, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker in a few locations, Northern Flicker, Eastern Phoebe in numbers, Tree, Bank and Barn Swallows at Bronte Harbour, Golden-crowned Kinglets in numbers everywhere, Eastern Towhee reported at a couple of feeders in Aldershot and east Hamilton, Chipping Sparrow at a feeder at Brant County Road 22 near Sawmill Road., Field Sparrow at Eramosa Karst, Vesper and Savannah Sparrows up in North Halton at 8th Line and 6th Line near Derry, a large flock of Lapland Longspurs yesterday at the edge of the HSA near Paris on Paris Plains Church Rd in Brant County and lastly a good group of Rusty Blackbirds at Shell Park. The Niagara Peninsula Hawkwatch has had mixed days this week with good days bringing, Turkey Vultures in force, Osprey, Bald Eagle, Northern Harrier, Sharp-shinned, Cooper's, Red-shouldered, Red-tailed, Rough-legged Hawk and American Kestrels. This week should bring in a flood of raptors and next Friday April 14th is the Open House with lots of activities for the whole family. In the odds and sods this week, Common Loons were seen migrating over Beamer and on the lake, Pied-billed Grebe was reported several places this week. Yesterday at LaSalle there were a number of Red-necked Grebes and 28 Horned Grebes seen off the dock here. A pair of Merlins were seen doing the wild thing at the top of a tree in Glenhyrst Park in Brantford. Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs and Pectoral Sandpiper were seen at the flooded field on 5th Road East. Wilson's Snipe was seen on Middletown Road south of 4th Concession West. An unusual sighting this week was of a Great Horned Owl sitting on a rock just on to the grass beside the highway/on ramp where the Linc turns into the 403 east bound. A Snowy Owl was photographed Thursday at Tollgate Pond off Eastport Drive. Tufted Titmouse was seen at Bronte Bluffs. Lastly a Winter Wren made a nice surprise on the deck of a south Burlington home, could be a migrant or moving about now that the weather is nice! That's the news for this week. It should be a good week for migrants. Report your sightings here! Good birding, Cheryl Edgecombe HNC --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - 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 Visit the OFO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists
