A Spotted Towhee has been hanging around our backyard all day. He is in the
company of a Brown Thrasher, lots of WT Sparrows, RC Kinglets, a winter
wren, several warbler species, Swainsons and hermit Thrush, etc.
Too bad I had to work on Income tax all day!
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Today I birded several parks and other natural areas along or near
Lake Ontario starting at Paletta Park, Burlington east to Rattray
Marsh Conservation area: in between I birded Shell Park, sw Oakville;
Gairloch Garden, Oakville, Arkendo Park, se Oakville, and Lakeside
Park sw Mississauga.
We set a new record for the April Toronto Ornithological Club outing with 103
species today. The trees were dripping with birds everywhere.
There were 10 warbler species including 3 female Cape May and enormous numbers
of Yellow-rumps, 12 sparrows and 15 kinds of duck. Other good finds included
Posting for Dave Okines whose reply to his post failed.
Correct the bird seen was a Lark Sparrow not a Lark Bunting. The report
should read.
a Lark Sparrow was seen and photographed near the first cottage on
the far side of the harbour early yesterday afternoon. It was seen for
about two hou
Hi All,
a Lark Bunting was seen and photographed near the first cottage on
the far side of the harbour early yesterday afternoon. It was seen for
about two hours but it then dissappeared and was not seen again, it has been
looked for today several times but it could not be relocated.
A small group of Yellow, Nashville and Yellow-rumped Warblers were seen
early Sunday afternoon at the Cobourg water treatment plant on Lake Ontario.
To reach the plant exit the 401 at interchange 474, go south on Division
Street, at the third traffic light exit left on to Elgin Street, go east on
E
The OFNC hosted an outing focusing on migrants from Britannia Conservation Area
to Constance Bay, led by Jeff Skevington. Britannia was fairly active with
multitudes of YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, vocal RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS, TREE, BARN,
and NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOWS skimming the surface of M
I saw a single Chimney Swift flying over Lake Victoria in central Stratford
this afternoon. It seems a very early arrival. There were several Tree
Swallows as well.
Other species seen in the last few days in the Lake Victoria area include
Hermit Thrush, Barn Swallow, Pine and Yellow-rum
Hi Ontbirds
Today, April 26th, spent the day birding various sites along Hwy. 60 in
Algonquin Park. The weather conditions changed considerably from yesterday with
a cool low of 2c and occasional rain today. We managed to locate a male Spruce
Grouse along Spruce Bog, 1 Boreal Chickadee at Tea La
Hello Birders
We've enjoyed another lovely day here at Point Pelee and there continues to
be good bird activity in the park.
This morning, 4 species of vireo were noted at the Tip (White-eyed,
Blue-headed, Warbling and Red-eyed). A very early male Blackpoll Warbler
was also seen by many observe
At Reesor Pond and typical of this last week, is today's movement of
white-winged gulls with two 1st winter Iceland, one 1st first winter Thayers,
one adult Glaucous and one 1st winter Great-blacked gulls - the Blue-morph Snow
Goose continues to show up daily. Reesor Pond lies just north of Hwy
A snowy owl has been spending at least the weekend along Highway 26 west of
Meaford. The bird can be seen about 200 metres west of the intersection of
Highway 26 and Grey Road 112. It has mostly been sitting on fenceposts
immediately adjacent to the highway. but periodically flies further back t
1 Yellow Warbler, 1 Black-and-white Warbler, 2 Nashville Warbers, 1 Ovenbird, 4
Black-throated Green Warblers. Other species of interest: 1 Common Loon (flying
over), 1 Hooded Merganser, 1 Wilson's Snipe, 1 Winter Wren, 1 Carolina Wren, 1
Northern Mockingbird, 1 Brown Thrasher, 2 Blue-headed Vir
Little Gulls
There were 43 birds present between the marsh and adjacent Lake Ontario.
There is also 1600 Bonaparte's Gulls present this morning.
Almost all Little Gulls and Bonaparte's left for the marsh by 9:30am
Warblers 9 species
In order of abundance Yellow-rumped, Yellow, Black-throated G
The adult male Barrow's Goldeneye found by Bill Crins at the Lakefield
sewage lagoons yesterday was on the nearby Otonabee River this morning,
Sunday April 26. It was with a group of Common Goldeneye close to the west
shore of the river about 2km south of the junction of County Rd. 33 and
Water Str
Migration has started to pick up on The Islands. It was a cold windy start on
Thursday but yesterday made up for the cool weather with a hint of Summer.
Following is a list of some of the birds we ( Ian Cannell, Margaret
Liubavicius, Alfred Adamo and myself ) have been finding down there.
Woo
Greetings!
I was a lovely start at the Spit. For the first time we saw, and
photographed, a Woodcock (usually they just fly away). This was in the area
to the right of the main gate.
Then by the cells we saw two male Canvasback fighting over a female. Nice
views.
Then the storm hit: we saw it co
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