This afternoon around 5:15 pm I found a male Prothonotory Warbler foraging
along the edge of a flooded area under an open cover of balsam poplars and
red osier dogwoods. At first I thought ... female yellowthroat??? or
female Wilson Warbler??? ... but as it neared I noted the distinct 'golden
glow' the bluish wings and tail, familiar field mark listed in most bird
guides. It was very tame, and at times it was within 25' to 30' feet of the
boardwalk. The major windstorm with winds out the south east last week has
created a high shingle dam at the outflow of the marsh, causing the water to
back up to the bottom of the banks through most the marsh's flood basin ...
creating ideal habitat for nesting Porthonotary Warblers!!!!!! Otherwise the
woods were very quiety (a few thrushes and empidonax flycatchers ... and
only three species of warblers ... including this one!!!!) ... perhaps
because a pair of Cooper's Hawks were seen in the adjacent woods!!!! Anyway
this may be the big high-light of spring migration for me this year.
This part of the marsh is locate about 80 meters nw of the bridge over
Sheridan Creek (and most 'downstream' bridge) and adjacent to a
'clearly-visible' massive pile of wood from a large willow (the Trans Canada
Trail Sign is right across the board walk), popular with Winter Wrens most
the spring. The shortest distance to the site to drive south to end of
Bexhill Drive; then park near the gate, then a short walk down the hill, and
turn right at the concrete cistern and keeping going nw until you arrive
when the woods narrow down along the nw side of the floodplane. Bexhill is
located about 0.5 km east of Clarkson (which at the insection of Southdown
Road and Royal Winsor Drive) or 1.5 km west of Port Credit (insection
Lakeshore/Hurontario Street). Good luck.
Wayne Renaud
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Rondeau Bay Glossy Ibis, Ruddy Turnstones
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Bob Knudsen (Bird Hike Leader at Rondeau this season) called me from
Rondeau Bay to let me know that he found a Glossy Ibis on Erie Shore Drive
at McGeachy's Pond. The bird was located in a dike directly across from
18050 Erie Shore Drive. To get there proceed east just a couple of km from
Blenheim on Hwy 3 (Talbot Trail) and turn left on Erieau Road (south).
Follow Erieau Road south until you reach McGeachy's Pond (several km but
you can't miss it). Erie Shore Drive turns right off of Erieau Road right
before the pond.
Bob also found a number of Ruddy Turnstones along with a mixed flock of
American Golden Plovers and Black-bellied Plovers at the south end of
Lagoon Road just before Rondeau Bay. To get there return back north along
Erieau Road from McGeachy's pond until you reach the Bisnett Line - turn
right (east) and follow the Bisnett to Lagoon Road. Turn south (right) on
Lagoon and follow it a couple of km until you can see the bay. Watch the
fields to your left.
Sandy Dobbyn for
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Yellow-throated Vireo, Etobicoke
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Early this evening I had a singing YELLOW-THROATED VIREO near the footbridge on
the southside of Albion Road where it crosses the Humber River (west of Weston
Road). Also in the same general area, my 4th BLUE-WINGED WARBLER of the season
for this area. Considering that I had only 5 records for this species during
the entire 1980-1992 period, it would seem that either I have been very lucky,
or the status of this species has changed since that period.
Pine Point Park is on the west bank of the Humber River, south of Albion Road,
west of Weston Road.
Mark Kubisz,
Etobicoke
