AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN ANHINGA CATTLE EGRET Brant American Wigeon Northern Pintail Redhead Lesser Scaup Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Semipalmated Plover Black-bellied Plover Spotted Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Semipalmated Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Forster's Tern Yellow-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk Olive-sided Flycatcher Wood Thrush Blue-winged Warbler Blue-winged x Golden-winged Warbler Palm Warbler Louisiana Waterthrush Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Orchard Oriole
This week's list looks like it should be from Florida. It's been an interesting week for sure with a few surprises. Bird of the week hands down was a flyover of an ANHINGA at a yard west of Campbellville last Sunday. The bird was high and moving in a southwest direction. It has to be somewhere so check your local ponds! Another lucky observer of the week had an AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN and a CATTLE EGRET do a flyby past the office window at Canada Centre for Inland Waters. The CATTLE EGRET did not resurface but to add to this Pelican (which may be the one seen a week ago), six AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS were seen soaring over Cootes Paradise last night and lo and behold were there again this morning before they moved out. They could return to this location. Shorebirds are not out of the picture yet. A Greater Yellowlegs is almost record late as this first summer bird appears to have settled in a 5th Road East. Other birds here this week include Semipalmated Plover, Semipalmated and White-rumped Sandpiper. At Windermere Basin, a Dunlin and Ruddy Turnstone found some space to move in the high waters there this morning. Two stunning Black-bellied Plover were seen on Michigan Ave which is just off of Great Lakes Blvd in Oakville earlier in the week. At 8th Line and Britannia today, four Black-bellied Plover, a few Semipalmated Sandpipers and a White-rumped Sandpiper were present. The Upland Sandpiper can still be found on South Grimsby 15. It was on the east side in the shorter grass south of Mud Street. Most of the birds have settled into breeding territories. Migrants recorded this week were a Brant seen flying west from Saddington Park in Mississauga, Common Nighthawks over Grimsby, an Olive-sided Flycatcher heard at the Headwaters trail in the Dundas Valley today and a female Connecticut Warbler which gave birders a run for their money last Tuesday at Shoreacres/Paletta in Burlington. In the odds and sods, lingering waterfowl reported from Windermere Basin include Northern Pintail, Redhead, Bufflehead, Lesser Scaup and Ruddy Duck. An American Wigeon was seen at Tollgate Pond. An adult and first summer Forster's Tern continued at Bronte Harbour along with some Bonaparte's Gulls and a second hand report of 5 Little Gulls. Yellow-billed and Black-billed Cuckoos are in good supply. The caterpillars in the Dundas Valley are providing a great deal of food for these beasts and you should come out of there with one or both cuckoos under your belt, along with a few ticks. Yellow-billed Cuckoos were also reported at Rock Chapel. A Wood Thrush was singing heartily after the rain at Tuck Creek, this could be a migrant as it would be an unusual breeding place for this species to breed. Blue-winged and Blue-wingedxGolden-winged Warblers are setting up shop at the Cartwright Property owned by the HNC and at McMaster Forest. A Palm Warbler made a good late record acting territorially at a residence in Stoney Creek up until May 30th. Louisiana Waterthrush was heard singing in the traditional area of the Dundas Valley Conservation Area today. Lastly a few Orchard Orioles have been reported, one reliable individual up on 5th Road east and another found at Cityview Park in Burlington. That's the news for this week. Keep getting out to the local patches and try somewhere new, there are still birds to be found and refound here in the Hamilton Study Area. 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
