Yesterday Owen Moorhouse joined Bob Tyler and myself for a nice day of birding on The Islands and following are some of the birds we found. It was good to see that finally more migrants were on the move.
Canvasback, Cooper’s and Sharp-shinned Hawks, Killdeer, Iceland, Glaucous and Lesser black-backed Gulls, 2 of each, Caspian and Common Terns, Chimney Swifts, Belted Kingfisher, Red=bellied Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, Northern Flickers, Least and Great Crested Flycatchers, Eastern Phoebe, Purple Martin, Cliff Swallows, Common Raven, White-breasted Nuthatches, Brown Creepers, House and Winter Wrens, many Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Veery, Hermit Thrushes, Brown Thrashers, Cedar Waxwings, Blue-headed and Warbling Vireos, Nashville, Yellow, Black-throated Blue, Yellow-rumped, Black-throated Green, Palm, and Black-and-white Warblers, Ovenbird and Northern Waterthrush, (one of the Palm Warblers was a Yellow Palm), Chipping, Savannah, Song, Swamp and many White-throated Sparrows, Dark-eyed Juncos and Purple Finches. Ruby-crowned Kinglets and White-throated Sparrows were the most numerous birds there during this second wave of these two species after 10 days or so of seeing just a few of them and the numbers of Yellow-rumped Warblers has increased. We were not able to check Hanlan’s Point beach for shorebirds that we had heard about due only wearing hiking boots and being blocked by increased flooded areas. The Islands now have a lot of areas with large puddles, flooded areas of brush, lawns and woodlands as the lake level continues to rise and some areas already have started to be protected by sand bags. A walk along the Lighthouse trail is now blocked by water and there are small lake like areas on the airfield. Norm Murr Richmond Hill, ON Sent from Mail for Windows 10 _______________________________________________ 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
