PLEASE SAVE THIS EMAIL FOR FUTURE REFERENCE PLEASE LOOK FOR GREAT EGRETS WITH COLOR-BANDS ON THEIR LEGS This breeding season over 300 Great Egrets were banded at their colonies in western Lake Erie (Middle Sister Island) in Georgian Bay (Nottawasaga Island and Chantry Island) and Motor Island in the Niagara River with spectacular results. As of August 17th there have been a remarkable 25 resightings of these color-banded egrets this year! On May 31st Peter Yeorg found our first spring record of a color-banded Great Egret at the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area in western New York. At Reesor Pond in Markham, which is 14 miles north-northeast of Toronto, Ontario, Winnie Poon and Roy Smith and were able to obtain the band number and a photograph on one egret, observed at noon July 5, 2009, with 6 other non-banded Great Egrets. This egret was banded as a nestling, on Nottawasaga Island (Georgian Bay, near Collingwood) on June 20, 2008. (Jean Iron at Reesor Pond observed this same bird as late as August 3rd.) On July 23rd a banded adult Great Egret was spotted with two other egrets (at least one of which had a metal band on the right leg) at the Sheridan Park Golf Course in Tonawanda, New York. August 2nd Peter Yeorg successfully read the band code of a Great Egret at Batavia Waste Water Treatment Plant in New York. August 7th I read the band code of a second Great Egret at Batavia WWTP, and on August 8th Willie D’Anna was able to find both birds and read their band codes. On August 16th Kim Saucy and Kim Marie photographed two banded birds at Batavia WWTP. On the 17th I found the same bird at Batavia that I identified on the 7th. August 9th at the Hydro Marsh in Durham, Ontario, Winnie Poon found another banded Great Egret and read the code. August 17th Clive Hodder hit the jackpot and read the band codes of nine Great Egrets at Luther Marsh the upper Grand River Valley, 25 miles north of Guelph, Ontario. If you see any color-banded Great Egrets, please record the date, location, number of other egrets with them, and, if possible, the letter(s) and number(s) of the banding code, so we can better document the dispersal pattern of these fledglings. Report all sighting of Great Egret with red color-bands to at least one of the following locations. Note: Some egrets banded this year have multiple colors such as a red band and a yellow band so as to give us additional information on bird were the code was not successfully read. You should be able to read the three digit alphanumeric band code with a spotting scope and patients. D. V. Chip Weseloh Canadian Wildlife Service-Ontario Region 4905 Dufferin St. Downsview, Ontario M3H 5T4 Phone: 416-739-5846 email: _chip.wese...@ec.gc.ca_ (mailto:chip.wese...@ec.gc.ca) . and/or Connie Adams NYSDEC 270 Michigan Ave. Buffalo, NY 14203 Phone (716) 851-7010 email: _cmad...@gw.dec.state.ny.us_ (mailto:cmad...@gw.dec.state.ny.us) William Watson 771 Fletcher Street Tonawanda, NY 14150 Phone (716) 695-2820w_illiamwatso...@aol.com_ (mailto:williamwatso...@aol.com)
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