[Ontbirds] Hamilton Naturalists Club Birding Report - Friday, August 24th, 2007

2007-08-24 Thread Cheryl Edgecombe
On Friday, August 24th, 2007, this is the HNC Birding Report: Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Long-tailed Duck Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Osprey Cooper's Hawk Virginia Rail Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs

[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 23 Aug 2007

2007-08-24 Thread dfsuggs
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/23/2007 * NYBU0708.23 - Birds mentioned -- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs localnet

[Ontbirds]Marbled Godwit @ Presqu'ile.

2007-08-24 Thread Fred Helleiner
From at least 10:30 to 11:30 this morning, there was a Marbled Godwit on the gravel bar off Owen Point at Presqu'ile, perhaps the same bird that was present for 5-6 days over three weeks ago (or perhaps not!). Although the previous bird appeared on a Sunday, most of its sojourn was on working

[Ontbirds][Fwd: Cranberry Marsh- Aug.23- Great Egrets Willet]

2007-08-24 Thread Siegmar Bodach
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[Ontbirds][Fwd: Re: 2 Great Egrets at Reesor Pond]

2007-08-24 Thread Siegmar Bodach
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[Ontbirds]Holland Landing Aurora Birds

2007-08-24 Thread RON FLEMING
A brief but heavy rain on Wednesday night put lagoon levels up at Holland Landing this week but also knocked a few migrating birds down, so shorebird numbers have increased since Thursday morning. Nothing rare has shown up, but there is still a bright juvenile Short-billed Dowitcher and one

[Ontbirds] [Fwd: [Fwd: Cranberry Marsh- Aug.23- Great Egrets Willet]]

2007-08-24 Thread Siegmar Bodach
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[Ontbirds] Addendum to the HNC Birding Report - Friday, August 24th, 2007

2007-08-24 Thread Cheryl Edgecombe
The perils of typing the report at 5 a.m. is the omission of significant sightings. One of the best things about the fall in Hamilton is the vigil birdwatchers keep at VanWagners Beach for jaegers, kittiwakes, Sabine's Gulls and last year our spectacular Manx Shearwater. This past week on

[Ontbirds]Aug.24 at cranberry-Baird's, Willet; Official start to raptor watch-Aug.25

2007-08-24 Thread Doug Lockrey
I look forward to another good season of migrant raptor counting from the south platform of Cranberry Marsh in southwest Whitby. Indeed, we have snuck in 3 pre-start days! Today the following non-raptors were seen on/over the wetland--1 Baird's sandpiper, 1 Willet, several Lesser Yellowlegs, 1

[Ontbirds]Re Shorebirds at Mitchell

2007-08-24 Thread Ken Clarke
Folks The West Perth Wetlands remain a happening place for migrating shorebirds. Wednesday night the Stratford Field Naturalists saw, amongst the numerous shorebirds, four Red-necked Phalaropes in the centre-east cell at the east end. A return trip today yielded the same four birds as well as

[Ontbirds]Great Egret pair at Bruce Pit, Ottawa

2007-08-24 Thread Michael Broughton
A relative rarity for Ottawa, there were two Great Egrets fishing the Bruce Pit today at 4:30. I observed them for only about ten minutes as I had just paused for a quick check on the way to pick up my son from camp, but they were actively fishing the north and east portions of the quarry pond.