[Ontbirds]Yellow-billed Cuckoo, and others-Oshawa

2006-10-06 Thread The Birding Burgesses
Birders, Yesterday afternoon, my brothers and I observed a YELLOW BILLED CUCKOO in the woods behind our house. Other species of note(today and yesterday) were: Northern Parula, Swainson's thrush, Hermit thrush, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, White-,& Red-breasted nuthatch, Dark-eyed juncos, Chipping

[Ontbirds]California Gull, Wheatley Harbour

2006-10-06 Thread The Holdens
My husband and son called to ask me to post that they found an ADULT CALIFORNIA GULL at Wheatley Harbour, near Point Pelee. They had the bird on the westerly concrete wall at the mouth of the harbour. They watched and photographed the bird for a while until it flew to the beach on the east s

[Ontbirds]HSR: Cranberry Marsh (06 Oct 2006) 125 Raptors

2006-10-06 Thread reports
Cranberry Marsh Whitby, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 06, 2006 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Black Vulture0

[Ontbirds]Cattle Egret Update - (east of Ottawa)

2006-10-06 Thread Ott User
The weather in Ottawa, Ontario was great again today. I decided to take a quick trip to Casselman to have another look at the Cattle Egret. I arrived there after 12:30pm. The Cattle Egret was once again found feeding near the few horses on the farm at 545 Route 500, North of Casselman. After

[Ontbirds]High Park Hawk Watch - - Oct 5 '06 + Year-to-Date

2006-10-06 Thread Marc Lichtenberg
This is an official posting from the High Park Hawk Watch. Station: High Park, Toronto, Ontario View Period: Oct 5, 2006 Station coordinator: Don Barnett Counters: D. Barnett, B. Carswell, C. Harte, M. Kelch, N. McHugh & H. Shapiro Thanks to the many observers and visitors who have contributed

[Ontbirds]Rough-legged Hawk - Innisfil

2006-10-06 Thread GARTH BAKER
Today at 1200 an adult female Rough-legged Hawk(light Phased) was observed by myself for 10 minutes as it lazily circled Southward.It was observed near the intersection of the 20th Sideroad and the 2nd Line of Innisfil. It was heading Due South , apparenly not wanting to Stop. Hwy 11 to 89,E

[Ontbirds]London SwiftWatch - October 3

2006-10-06 Thread Hugh Casbourn
LONDON SWIFTWATCH 2006 - REPORT NO. 8 - October 3 McIlwraith Field Naturalists of London have been monitoring chimneys in London that are known to be or have been roosting sites for Chimney Swifts, Chaetura pelagica. This project, now in its third year, was organized as a response to the province

[Ontbirds]Kingston area birds to October 6, 2006

2006-10-06 Thread Peter and Jane Good
It has been an excellent week for birds locally. To start, there were two Surf Scoters in the Amherstview sewage lagoons last Friday. Four more were seen off the west end of Amherst Island Oct. 3rd and three White-winged Scoters did a fly-by at the east end the same day. Two Ruddy Ducks showed up i

Addendum Re: [Ontbirds]Cattle Egret - (east of Ottawa)

2006-10-06 Thread Ott User
This is an addendum to my email to Ontbirds on Thursday, Sept. 5th. I'm sure by now some have had a close look at the Cattle Egret and have formed some opinion as to its age. I mention this in regards to a question posed by Jacques Bouvier in his original email to Ontbirds regarding the age of