On Friday, September 26th, 2008, this is the HNC Birding Report: SABINE'S GULL BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE PARASITIC JAEGER
Wood Duck Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Loon Great Blue Heron Great Egret Bald Eagle Broad-winged Hawk Sandhill Crane American Golden-Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Sanderling Bonaparte's Gull Great Horned Owl Ruby-throated Hummingbird Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Eastern Wood-Pewee Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Brown Creeper House Wren Winter Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Swainson's Thrush Gray Catbird Nashville Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Palm Warbler American Redstart Common Yellowthroat Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Indigo Bunting The highlights this week are again from VanWagners Beach where east winds have blessed us for a few days this week. During the week a BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE made a close flyby on Monday giving nice views. PARASITIC JAEGERS were seen mostly at a distance but some came in for some good views. On Tuesday and again today a SABINE'S GULL was seen off the beach giving somewhat close views today. Other birds reported this week include Northern Pintail, Green-winged Teal, White-winged Scoter, our first Surf Scoters, Common Loon, Bonaparte's Gull and Sanderling. Passerine migration has been subdued this week with very few of the local hotspots reporting migrants this week. Birds have changed over to later migrants. At Confederation Park last Friday, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, House Wren, Swainson's Thrush, Red-eyed Vireo, Magnolia Warbler, American Redstart and White-throated Sparrow were migrants seen. At Sheldon Creek Trail just north of Lakeshore Road on Burloak in Oakville, Eastern Wood Pewee, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Nashville, Magnolia and Black-throated Blue Warbler were present on Wednesday. At Waterdown Wetlands in Waterdown this week, Bald Eagle, House Wren, Palm Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Field, Song, White-throated, White-crowned, Chipping, Lincolns,Savannah,and Swamp Sparrows and first year female Indigo Bunting were reported. At another hotspot that hasn't been reported from in quite some time, Kerncliffe Park on Kerns Road in Burlington, Ruby and Golden-crowned Kinglets, Winter Wren, Philadelphia Vireo, and Magnolia Warbler were seen this week. Behind the Olympic Arena, at the Dundas Hydro Ponds, Wood Duck, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Gray Catbird, Common Yellowthroat and Swamp Sparrow were seen yesterday. Shorebirds have been scarce in the Hamilton Study Area but 8 Lesser and a Greater Yellowlegs were seen at Confederation Park. A Greater Yellowlegs was seen at the North Service Road Ponds on Wednesday. At the sod farms east of Hwy 6 on Airport Road American Golden Plover in varying numbers have been seen during the week with 30 being seen today. In the odds and sods department Sandhill Cranes were seen and heard on Saturday morning along with a Broad-winged Hawk flyover at a residence at Deer Run Crescent in Brantford. A Great Horned Owl and Eastern Bluebirds were seen and heard in the same location on Friday. That's the news this week. Fall is prime time migration here in Hamilton and the OFO Conference is next weekend. Please report your sightings and let us know what's in the area. Good Birding, Cheryl Edgecombe HNC Hotline 905-381-0329 _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdssetup.php ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdsguide.php
