At 1:15pm, Thursday, September 4th, 2003, this is the Hamilton Naturalists' Club Birding Hotline Report. The Hotline is normally revised on Thursday, unless an unusual bird turns up in the Hamilton area.
Easterly winds produced some excellent sightings at Van Wagner's Beach this past week. LONG-TAILED JAEGER and PARASITIC JAEGER were seen yesterday, while four LONG-TAILED and 22 PARASITIC JAEGERS were reported on Tuesday. Also at Van Wagner's this week were 11 SABINE'S GULLS, a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, BONAPARTE'S GULL, LONG-TAILED DUCK, COMMON LOON, SANDERLING, and PEREGRINE FALCON (at the Lift Bridge). Shorebirds seen locally this past week include 15 species at the Grimsby Sewage Lagoons. Highlights were RED KNOT, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, and BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. Out of town, 11 species of shorebirds were reported from the Townsend Sewage Lagoons, including WILSON'S PHALAROPE, and STILT SANDPIPER. A WESTERN TANAGER was seen briefly at the Townsend Sewage Lagoons on Saturday, but additional attempts to locate this bird proved unsuccessful. A trip to Rock Point Provincial Park produced 12 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, a WESTERN SANDPIPER (on Saturday), RUDDY TURNSTONE, SANDERLING and PEREGRINE FALCON. Elsewhere, an AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN turned up at Cootes Paradise. Birders who went to view the Pelican also reported GREAT EGRET, CASPIAN TERN, BALD EAGLE, OSPREY, HUDSONIAN GODWIT, and EASTERN BLUEBIRD. On other RBG properties, BALD EAGLE, COOPER'S HAWK, SHARP-SHINNED HAWK, AMERICAN KESTREL, TURKEY VULTURE, VEERY, and PHILADEPHIA VIREO were spotted at Rock Chapel, and a COMMON MOORHEN turned up at the Hendrie Valley. Other local reports include ORCHARD ORIOLE and TURKEY VULTURE near the Kenilworth Access, NORTHERN HARRIER, AMERICAN KESTREL, SHARP-SHINNED HAWK, OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, and COMMON NIGHTHAWK at Courtcliff Park, plus PINE WARBLER, OVENBIRD, and BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO at the Waterdown North Wetland Trails. Be sure to let us know about your sightings. Leave your name, telephone number, as well as the time and date of your call. Sightings can also be reported by e-mail. GOOD BIRDING! Keith Dieroff C/O Hamilton Naturalists' Club Birding Hotline Report Hamilton, Ontario [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hamilton Naturalists' Club Tel: (905) 381-0329 www.hamiltonnature.org ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Keith Dieroff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm for information on leaving and joining the list. As well as general information and content guidelines.
