WHIP-POOR-WILL ACADIAN FLYCATCHER FISH CROW YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Northern Pintail Green Heron Osprey American Bittern Virginia Rail Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dunlin White-rumped Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Common Tern Forster's Tern Yellow-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Cuckoo Great Horned Owl Common Nighthawk Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Least FLycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Pipit Bolden-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Lincoln's Sparrow Orchard Oriole Pine Siskin Another week of migrants moving through the area and we see the mix has changed. Very few early spring migrants are around and the presence of Cuckoos and Blackpoll Warblers seems to be a milestone for the end coming. This week we had our FISH CROW sighting from Stoney Creek area, being chased by an American Crow near Millen and Margaret Ave. WHIP-POOR-WILL, not a yearly bird in the area was heard last Tuesday night at a Woodlot near 11th and Green Mountain Road, likely a transient bird as it was not heard subsequently. An ACADIAN FLYCATCHER was photographed and heard at a woodlot in Cityview Park in Burlington on Tuesday. A good net catch for our group in Ruthven was a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, banded yesterday. It's hard to know where to start. New arrivals this week include Green Heron, one at Van Wagner's Ponds, one at Edgelake in Stoney Creek. Two Red Knot were seen with Ruddy Turnstones at the end of the west pier at Bronte. A White-rumped Sandpiper was seen at the stormwater pond at the 407 and Britannia. Yellow-billed and Black-billed Cuckoos are in with the majority of the reports coming from the Dundas Valley Conservation Area with others being seen in the migration woodlots. Common Nighthawks have started to move with one being seen over Stoney Creek and two over Grimsby last Wednesday. Yellow-bellied-, Willow and Alder Flycatchers have moved in. Philadelphia Vireos were reported from Shoreacres/Paletta, Woodland Cemetery and Fifty Point Conservation area. A great place for migrating thrushes is Sherwood Forest where multiple Swainson's and Gray-cheeked Thrushes were seen this week. Bay-breasted, Blackpoll, Wilson's, Mourning and Canada Warblers are moving through being reported at Edgelake, Shoreacres/Paletta and Van Wagner's Pond. A Connecticut warbler was singing away at the RBG at the base of the trail behind the Nature Centre earlier in the week. Woodlots reported from this week include Fifty Point CA, Edgelake, Van Wagner's Ponds, Woodland Cemetery, Shoreacres/Paletta, Sedgewick, Shell Park, Bronte Bluffs and Sherwood Forest Park. Birds seen here in addition to those mentioned above include Least and Great Crested FLycatcher, Yellow-throated Vireo (Woodland Cemetery), Blue-headed Vireo (Sedgewick and Shoreacres), Red-eyed Vireo, Veery (Van Wagners Ponds), Hermit and Wood Thrush (Sherwood Forest), Golden-winged Warbler (Sedgewick), Tennessee, Nashville, Northern Parula, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Cape May, Black-throated Blue, Yellow-rumped, Black-throated Green, Blackburnian, Palm, Black-and-white Warbler, American Redstart, Ovenbird, Common Yellowthroat, Scarlet Tanager and Lincoln's Sparrow. A first year Orchard Oriole was photographed at a feeder in Burlington this week. Shorebirds are in the news. Up in Saltfleet on 5th Road East Solitary Sandpipers (up to four) were seen in the rapidly drying field up there. At 8th Road East between Ridge and Green Mountain, Semipalmated Plover and Dunlin were seen in the field on Wednesday evening. Earlier in the day four Pectoral Sandpipers were seen. The best spot in Saltfleet seems to be Green Mountain Road between 6th and 8th Road East where a small flooded area contained Dunlin, Least, Semipalmated Spotted and Solitary Sandpiper. The flooded field at 8th Line and Britannia in Oakville is always worth a look with a similar mix to above plus Black-bellied Plover. The water is drawn down at the 407 Stormwater Pond just after the Britannia exit with Dunlin, Least, Pectoral and Spotted Sandpiper reported a couple days ago in addition to the White-rumped Sandpiper mentioned above. In the odds and sods, Northern Pintail seem to be setting up nesting at Windermere Basin. Unfortunately, this venue is too high for shorebirds at present. Two Osprey were seen making a nest on the communication tower near the Olympic arena yesterday. American Bittern and Virginia Rail were both noted at the marsh on 11th Road East just south of Green Mountain Road although the Bittern may have moved on. Wilson's Snipe could be heard at 5th Road East on the east side, getting late for them so perhaps its wet enough to nest this year. Yesterday a spectacle at Bronte Harbour was hundreds of Common Terns flying about with 11 Forster's Terns mixed in. Amongst the Bonaparte's Gulls seen there was a first summer Little Gull. A Great Horned Owl was an unexpected surprise at VanWagners Ponds, given away by mobbing blackbirds. Lastly, an odd sighting was of a Pine Siskin at a feeder in Dundas mid-week, a bird that has not been seen in a while here. That's the news this week. Migrations not over yet. Get out and comb the countryside or your local woodlot, those strong south winds have to have brought in something. 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