[Ontbirds] Long Point Update - August 30: Prairie Falcon, swallows!!!

Good afternoon, The Long Point Bird Observatory sightings board is updated to August 30. https://www.bsc-eoc.org/longpoint/index.jsp?targetpg=lpbosight Highlights this week include: Long Point’s second Prairie Falcon observed on August 24, and a massive swallow roost exceeding 100,000 individua

[Ontbirds] COMMON NIGHTHAWKS IN GLEN WILLIAMS (GEORGETOWN)

Earlier this evening 4 Common Nighthawks hunting over the ball diamond in Glen Williams. Just by the Credit River. From 7:30 until 8:30 they were still there. Directions: In Georgetown take Mountainview Rd. north which then becomes Confederation St. In Glen Williams. Turn right at Preston’s Stor

[Ontbirds] Kingston Area Birds: 24th - 31st August 2019

Kingston Field Naturalists (KFN) maintains records in a 50km radius of MacDonald Park, Kingston. Birders using eBird are encouraged to share their sightings with 'Kingston FN'. Alternatively, please email or send records directly to me - contact details below. Please note that some sightings may re

Re: [Ontbirds] Western Sandpiper and Hudsonian Godwit - Tommy Thompson Park, Toronto

Godwit got flushed by Peregrine. But returned. Still looking for Western Sandpiper Directions as per Iain's email Sent from my BlackBerry — the most secure mobile device — via the Bell Network   Original Message   From: birdalert@ontbirds.ca Sent: August 30, 2019 1:08 PM To: bi

[Ontbirds] Western Sandpiper and Hudsonian Godwit - Tommy Thompson Park, Toronto

Noam Markus found a Western Sandpiper this morning at Tommy Thompson Park amongst a large group of peeps in cell 2. The Hudsonian Godwit was also still present as of 11:30am. Also present throughout the morning were Stilt and Pectoral Sandpipers, both Yellowlegs and Semipalmated Plovers. The

[Ontbirds] Western Sandpipers at Presqu'ile

I don't know if there has been a sighting today but here is an observation from Wednesday. The bird I reported looked similar to the bird seen the same day in Toronto but a Western was reported at Presqu'ile before we arrived although we did not know it at the time. It was not the same bird, having

[Ontbirds] Long-tailed Jaeger, Port Franks Beach, Aug 30

Hey, I had marvelous views of a light morph juvenile Long-tailed Jaeger this morning at Port Franks Beach. The bird came in off the lake, passed nearly directly overhead at no more than 50 m, then proceeded straight east overland. See linked ebird list for more details. https://ebird.org/canad

[Ontbirds] Golden Plovers near Ottawa

Following up on word that Golden Plovers were recently spotted near Osgoode southeast of Ottawa, last evening I had 108 (photo count) in the expected field. The birds moved about from near the road to the back of the field, being put up first by a large flock of juvenile Starlings that landed right

[Ontbirds] Toronto Islands - Cuckoo and Broad-winged Hawk

Yesterday Bob Tyler and I birded Ward’s Island and small parts of Algonquin and Snake Islands and though migration is very slow starting we did find some new birds but only only 6 warblers, 5 single species and 2 Redstarts and another N. Waterthrush. We also saw 4 Great Egrets, a first fall Bro