[Ontbirds]Red Crossbill - Amherst Island

Hello Ontbirders. Thanks to some great weather, and cooperative birds, we had a fantastic day birding around Kingston and Amherst Island. In addition to many of the great birds mentioned in various posts from today, we had a female Red Crossbill in the Owl Woods. It was working the tops of t

[Ontbirds]HSR: Holiday Beach (10 Nov 2006) 675 Raptors

Holiday Beach Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 10, 2006 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Turkey Vulture 172 23

[Ontbirds]HSR: Cranberry Marsh (10 Nov 2006) 139 Raptors

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

[Ontbirds]HSR: SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark (10 Nov 2006) 481 Raptors

SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark Brownstown, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 10, 2006 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Black Vulture

[Ontbirds] TUNDRA SWANS, PURPLE FINCH, 2 GOLDEN EAGLES, SOARING PEREGRINE AMONG 139 RAPTORS AT CRANBERRY/Nov.10/06

Northwest winds and rising BP brought up to 15 observers to Cranberry for 4 hours this Nov.10 morning. In the first hour a Peregrine Falcon enthused us with many low-flying soaring "kettles" before perching in a willow tree for an hour. In the second hour Stan Long, from the north platform, no

[Ontbirds]Brant [ iain]

Friday, 3 PM, Nov 10, at Dick Bell Park, Ottawa River Four Brant left side of the breakwater to the lighthouse near the entrance. Still quite a few Red Neck Grebes Hwy 417 take exit Acres Rd north, turn left onto Carling at T junction. Drive along to next lights and turn right into dick bell

[Ontbirds]Amherst Island birding

Hi Everyone Birded Amherst Island this morning and observed 15-20 Long-eared Owls in the "Owl Woods". Didn't see any Northern Saw-whets but they can be hard to find. Other birds of interest included a late Eastern Phoebe, 3 Fox Sparrow and 1 Hermit Thrush. Viewing conditions off the Southsho

[Ontbirds]Presqu'ile Black-backed Woodpecker

Ontbirders While strolling along the Fingers Trail at Presqu'ile this afternoon, I found a female Black-backed Woodpecker. This trail is not signed but starts at a wooden gate approximately .9km along the main road from the park's admission booth. The gate, on the east side, leads to a trail th

[Ontbirds]Blue Goose

A Blue (snow) goose has been seen at the St Christopher's Beach in Goderich for the past few days. It is hanging out with a large flock of Canada Geese on the beach. It can be easily seen. St. Chris. beach is at the south end of the Goderich Beach (go down West St. to the harbour and continu

[Ontbirds]Long Sault - Scoter, Red-necked Grebe

Birded the Long Sault Parkway again this morning. The RED-NECKED GREBE spotted last week was still present and very close, between Hoople and Dickinson Islands on the north side of the parkway. A WHITE-WINGED SCOTER was also visible in the waters east of the bridge after the Long Sault park entr

[Ontbirds]Kingston area birds to Nov. 10, 2006

The KFN did their annual fall roundup within the Kingston 50 km circle last weekend and tallied a respectable 126 species. Since the circle includes some of Prince Edward County I'll try not to repeat those sightings already mentioned in Terry Sprague's report. In total we had 29 species of waterfo

[Ontbirds] Hamilton Naturalists Birding Report - Thursday, November 9th, 2006 (revised)

On Thursday, November 9th, 2006 this is the HNC Birding Report: BRANT LESSER BLACK BACKED GULL BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE EASTERN KINGBIRD LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE WHITE-EYED VIREO VARIED THRUSH YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER BAY-BREASTED WARBLER AMERICAN REDSTART NELSON'S SHARP-TAILED SPARROW Green-winged Teal S