May 22 - At Rock Point Provincial Park located on the northeast shore of Lake Erie 25 miles west of Fort Erie, Ontario, or 30 miles west of Buffalo, NY, this morning there was a TRICOLORED HERON, 2 WHIMBREL, ORCHARD ORIOLE, and a likely FORSTER'S TERN. The Tricolored was along the shoreline then in the trees and then along the shoreline again at the eastern edge of the park. It was a first year bird that still retained most of its juvenile plumage. (reddish brown head and neck except for the ventral neck which was a speckled white.
There were 57 more Whimbrel in Fort Erie at the end of Stone Mill Road (Stone Mill Road is in western Fort Erie, go south on Stone Mill off Regional Road 3). Also in Fort Erie at the end of Kraft Road was the breeding Redheaded Woodpecker. In western Port Colburne on Minor Road (turn north off Regional Road 3) there was a singing GRASSHOPPER SPARROW. Bill Watson Tonawanda, NY From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 22 18:39:05 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from maildir.nt.net (rad3.nt.net [209.226.51.11]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75EB147EE0 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 22 May 2004 18:39:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bellnordiq.ca (ntl-217-20.telebecinternet.net [142.217.217.20] (may be forged)) by maildir.nt.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4MMcwan002240 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 22 May 2004 18:38:58 -0400 Received: from smtp4.bellnordiq.ca (smtp4 [192.168.150.24]) by bellnordiq.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i4MMe0o15116 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 22 May 2004 18:40:00 -0400 Received: from yoursz6x6sefxo (Timmins5-76.nt.net [207.35.162.76]) by smtp4.bellnordiq.ca (8.12.11/8.11.6) with SMTP id i4MMdEtL015193 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 22 May 2004 18:39:15 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Marc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 18:39:09 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Subject: [Ontbirds]Plovers in Hearst - May 21st/22nd X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 22:39:05 -0000 Yesterday (May 21st) while viewing 3 adult sandhill cranes in a farmers field just 8 kilometres east of Hearst on the north side of Highway 11, I noticed a few smaller birds probing the short grass nearby. Upon glassing them, and getting a closer look, my daughter and I were surprised to get a look at 3 plovers. One was unmistakeably a male black-bellied plover with strongly contrasting black and white plumage, and the other 2 I thought maybe were females of the same species. Upon closer examination of a couple of my field guides and another look, today at the only one that appears to be left in the same field, I now know these other 2 were American golden plovers. These are firsts for me up here, and I would be interested to know from anyone if this is uncommon to see these 2 species together while on their northern migration. We apparently are on both these species of birds migration route. Hearst is a French Canadian community located along the northern TransCanada Highway (11), and is about a 6 hour drive north of North Bay, or 6 hours east of Thunder Bay. Marc Johnson Hearst ONT.
