PARASITIC JAEGER LONG-TAILED JAEGER
Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Lesser Scaup Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Red-breasted Merganser American Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night Heron Virginia Rail Sora Black-bellied Plover American Golden Plover Semipalmated Plover Spotted Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpaper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Bonaparte's Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern Black-billed Cuckoo Red-headed Woodpecker Blue-headed Vireo Brown Creeper Gray Catbird American Pipit Black-and-White Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Bay-breasted Warbler Pine Warbler It's a hot one in the HSA this week. High temperatures have stifled migration but for those still willing to go out, there are rewards. Last Wednesday a light east wind produced favourable conditions at Van Wagner's Beach. A good number of jaegers appeared late in the day with at least one juvenile LONG-TAILED JAEGER in the mix along with a few adult PARASITIC JAEGERS. At one point a group of 8 jaegers could be seen swirling around at a great distance with some of them eventually coming into good views. Other birds noted at the beach were Surf Scoter, White-winged Scoter, Red-breasted Merganser, Sanderling, Bonaparte's Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, a late Caspian Tern and American Pipits (6 seen yesterday). Windermere Basin and Tollgate Pond are still productive. At Windermere Basin, the long staying Marbled Godwit was seen yesterday. Other shorebirds noted here include Black-bellied and American Golden Plover, Semipalmated, Baird's and Buff-breasted Sandpiper. At Tollgate, American Golden and Semipalmated Plover, Red Knot, Ruddy Turnstone, Sanderling, Semipalmated, Pectoral, and Spotted Sandpiper and Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs. Ducks seen in combined locations Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Green-winged Teal, Canvasback, Redhead and Lesser Scaup. Windermere is a good location for Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Green Heron and Black-crowned Night Heron. An American Bittern made another brief appearance on one of the rock islands at Windermere Basin a week ago Saturday. Passerine migration is at a standstill with birds hard to find in the heat. La Salle Park had Blue-headed Vireo, Brown Creeper, Gray Catbird, Black-and-White, Tennessee, Nashville Warbler, Northern Parula, Bay-breasted and Pine Warbler on September 21st. In the odds and sods this week there are reports of a few Virginia Rail and Sora at Kerncliffe Park in Burlington. A Black-billed Cuckoo has been a week long visitor at the Hamilton Conservation Authority Headquarters this week. A nice sighting of a juvenile Red-headed Woodpecker came from Miles Road just south of English Church Road. This in past has been a nesting site for these birds. The weather is due to turn around Thursday this week, this will provide another flush of migrants and may turn up a rarity that has come up from the south with these conditions. Get out to the local patch and report what you see. Good birding and stay hydrated! Cheryl Edgecombe HNC. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide Visit the OFO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists
