[Ontbirds]HSR: SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark (02 Nov 2007) 1861 Raptors

SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark Brownstown, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 02, 2007 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Black Vulture

[Ontbirds]Heads Up for Tundra Swans with blue neck collars from Alaska breeding sites

Tundra Swans were marked in western and northern Alaska in the summer of 2006 with coded neck bands as part of an effort to learn more about the timing of migration and movements relative to breeding area. Neck bands have a four-digit code that begins with a letter, and are read from bottom to to

[Ontbirds]WNY Dial-a-Bird 01 Nov 2007

- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/01/2007 * NYBU0711.01 - 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 com

[Ontbirds] 11 Common Redpolls, 2 Fox sparrows on a "slow" day at Cranberry Raptor Watch--Nov.2

Cranberry Marsh, southwest Whitby, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 02, 2007--SEE TABLE BELOW (on Nov.1 we had 56 migrating raptors, incl. 2 N.Goshawks, 44 red-taileds, 3 Rough-leggeds and 1 Peregrine falcon). Observation time for Nov.2: 0800 to 1100, 1300 to 1400 Official Counter:

[Ontbirds] Humber Bay East --- Blue Gray Gnatcatcher, Yellow-rumped warbler et al

It being an incredibly beautiful day for 2 November, we braved the 427 traffic down to Humber Bay East, where we were greeted by a NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD near the parking lot, and at last 30 BUFFLEHEAD in the bay just NOrth of the lot. Visible in the distance were a couple of GREBES (apparent

[Ontbirds]HSR: Holiday Beach (01 Nov 2007) 1242 Raptors

Holiday Beach Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 01, 2007 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Turkey Vulture 7497

[Ontbirds]Pacific Loon: L. Ontario off Second Marsh, Oshawa

This morning at 10:30 I found a Pacific Loon amongst the 150+ Common Loons on Lake Ontario off Second Marsh. I was standing on the beach on the eastern side of Second Marsh where it comes out from taking the Cool Hollow Trail. The bird was smaller than the nearby COLO, it had a dark smaller pointed

[Ontbirds]Western Tanager at Long Point

This morning there was a Western Tanager in the woodlot of the LPBO at Old Cut. The bird was seen fleetingly at 9:15 and then refound again around 10:30. It was seen by myself, Fergus Nicoll & 2 banders. Despite repeated searching it could not be found again. It may hang around this area as

[Ontbirds]Correction to HNC Birding Report - Nov 2, 2007

As a result of the early morning coffee not kicking in when I started typing today, I put Woodfield Road instead of Woodhill Road. The Cattle Egrets were last reported Tuesday at the intersection of Woodhill Road and Hwy 5 west of Peters Corners. Sorry for the confusion Cheers, Cheryl _

[Ontbirds]Kingston area birds to Nov. 2, 2007

The Eurasian Wigeon remains at Elevator Bay but the hybrid American/Eurasian has not been seen since first reported last Monday. A single Brant is lingering on the east end of Amherst Island and among the many other waterfowl at that location were 15 Redheads and 10 Black Scoters on Sunday. There w

[Ontbirds] Hamilton Naturalists Club Birding Report - Friday November 2nd, 2007 (see note at bottom of report please!)

On Friday, November 2nd, 2007 this is the HNC Birding Report: CATTLE EGRET Snow Goose Tundra Swan Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Long-tailed Duck Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Common x Barrow's Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ru