[Ontbirds] Juvenile Peregrine, Baird's Sandpiper, Plovers at West Perth Wetlands (Mitchell)

Hi All, The shorebird species variety was still quite good at the West Perth Wetlands (Mitchell) today...at least until a juvenile Peregrine made a couple of hunting passes and scared everything up into the air!! Note that there's still good shorebird habitat in all celss...although the lack o

[Ontbirds]Beeton Sod Farms: Buff-breasted Sandpipers

This afternoon at 4:00 pm. there were two Buff-Breasted Sandpipers at the Beeton Sod Farms on the north side of the 10th concession about 1 km west of the 15th sideroad. There was also in excess of 120 American Golden Plovers and Black-Bellied Plovers. I also counted about 10 American Pipit

[Ontbirds]Toronto Islands - Late Indigo Bunting plus other migrants

Good Day. Today I joined Gunner Bessell to bird the Toronto Islands. WE started at the Hanlans Point end and this was where the bulk of the birds were as well as another large group on Gibralter point opposite the Trout Pond. Our best bird of the day in our opinion was way along on Wards Isl

[Ontbirds]HSR: Holiday Beach (07 Oct 2007) 328 Raptors

Holiday Beach Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 07, 2007 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Turkey Vulture 1072

[Ontbirds]HSR: SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark (07 Oct 2007) 2432 Raptors

SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark Brownstown, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 07, 2007 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Black Vulture

[Ontbirds]Rare Bird Alert! Male American Wigeon?

A friend and I were at Deschene Rapids today and noticed what appears to be a male American Wigeon with a female mallard. For those who are familiar with Dechenes Rapids this bird was noticed in the area in front of the far east parking lot and from the dried up area just below where many of

[Ontbirds]Sandhill Cranes - Milton Road east of Ottawa

Hi Ontbirders, This afternoon 7 Oct at 4:15 PM I observed a dozen Sandhill Cranes west of Milton Road from a position about 100 yards south of the driveway at #4000 Milton Road (between Smith and Perrault Roads). The cranes were at some considerable distance west of the road, visible against the e

[Ontbirds]Franklin`s Gulls Dundas Marsh Hamilton

Happy Thanksgiving all, There now appears to be a possible 4 Franklin`s gulls at the end of the Willows in the Dundas marsh. At first light this morning Sunday, I had two fly over my head in the company of Ring-billed gulls. Immediately scoping the other gulls on the mud, I had one more, wh

[Ontbirds]Ottawa: Red-throated Loon, Black Scoter & migrants

Hi Everyone Spent the morning birding along the Ottawa River from Deschenes Rapids to Shirley's Bay. There was an good movement of Canada Geese with over 200+ flocks counted in 2 hour heading south plus 2 adult Peregrines. Off Dick Bell Park I observed 1 Red-throated Loon, 17 male Black Scot

[Ontbirds]Mockingbird High Park (and other migrants)

At noon on Sunday, October 7, I had a Northern Mockingbird at the south end of High Park, Toronto. The bird was about 50 meters west of Colborne Lodge drive, directly across from Grenadier Pond. It was perched on the hydro lines. In addition, it was another excellent day of birding at High Park

[Ontbirds]2007 Hamilton/Burlington field trip report

Hi, Once again this field trip proved very popular, with 48 participants at the start, and despite moments of fierce thunder and close lightening strikes during the morning stretch, we still had 25 semi-wet people for the latter part of the day. We found 73 species, which was pret

[Ontbirds]Brights Grove lagoons, near Sarnia

Looks like the fall migration is picking up at brights grove lagoons, west of sarnia. these waterfowl must have showed up before the current 30c weather rolled in. WOW, i was feeling the heat in the sun at 9:30am with the still air. i was at the north-west lagoon viewing from the south side. nort