[Ontbirds] Purple Sandpiper at Oshawa Harbour

Just at dusk today, while searching unsuccessfully (again) for the Pacific Loons, we spied a PURPLE SANDPIPER and a DUNLIN foraging together on the algae-covered rocks directly across the harbour from the Lighthouse. Definitely made up for the missing loons! Ron Reid and Janet Grand __

[Ontbirds] HSR: Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch (31 Oct 2010) 1783 Raptors

Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 31, 2010 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Black Vulture

[Ontbirds] Cave Swallow - close study at Leslie St. Spit today! - Are birders recording their Cave Swallows properly?

Hey Ontbirders. Been out all day and had a friend make two posts for me that I phoned in while in the field. At the Leslie St. Spit today I was able to study a single Cave Swallow at VERY CLOSE range today (10 meters?). The bird was feeding along one of the eastern rubble jetties and flew i

[Ontbirds] Toronto High Park Raptor Watch - Oct. 25 - 31

This is an official posting from the High Park Hawk Watch. Station: High Park, Toronto, Ontario View Period: October 25 - 31, 2010 Station coordinator: Don Barnett Counters: D. Barnett,H. Elliot C. Harte, M. Kelch, A.M. Leger, N. McHugh, N. Murr, D. Peuramaki, H. Shapiro, GTRW Webmasters: D. Wood

[Ontbirds] Apparent Adult Vega Gull -Sault Ste. Marie, Algoma

Birder's I can feel half the readers rolling their eye's and the other half thinking who cares. Yesterday Oct.30th I had an apparent adult Vega Gull at the Sult Ste. Marie landfill. I have documented and studied the bird down to every last feather and have posted a detailed analysis of the bi

[Ontbirds] Moosonee & area birds - Oct 24 to 29th. Sabine's Gull

My lovely girlfriend Jenn and I spent 5 days in the Moosonee area this past week. Bird life generally had a winter/boreal trend, with winter fiches, northern owls, boreal landbirds and gulls making for most of the noteworthy sightings. The most unusual observation came in the form of an adult SABI

[Ontbirds] Tommy Thompson Park - Cave Swallows, Pine Siskins - then a kettle of Golden Eagles

Good Evening. Today I birded the Leslie Street Spit with Peter McParland, Bill Smith and Margaret Liubavicius and like Friday it was a good day to be birding. We started the day with the first 6 of 12 Cave Swallows (Cell 1 and base of Pipit Point) and ended with 3 Golden Eagles (1 juv. and 2 ad

[Ontbirds] Cranberry Marsh Hawk Watch- Oct 31

Cranberry Marsh Hawk Watch Sunday, October 31 A total of 56 species were seen or heard from the hawkwatch platform. Turkey Vulture- 1 Northern Harrier- 10 Sharp-shinned Hawk- 12 Coopers Hawk- 3 Red-shouldered Hawk- 2 Red-tailed Hawk- 335 Rough-legged Hawk- 13 Golden Eagle- 1 Merlin- 1 Total- 385

[Ontbirds] Pine Grosbeaks, Laurier Woods

I found two female Pine Grosbeaks in Laurier Woods, North Bay today. To find Laurier Woods go north on Highway 11, turn left on the first traffic lights in North Bay, turn right on Franklin and turn left onto Brule. Cheers, Brent ___ ONTBIRDS is pre

[Ontbirds] HSR: DRHW- Lake Erie Metropark (30 Oct 2010) 693 Raptors

DRHW- Lake Erie Metropark Brownstown, Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 30, 2010 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Black Vulture

[Ontbirds] Iroquois Shoreline Raptor Watch Oct. 31st./2010

ISRW North Whitby, Ontario, Canada Days totals Turkey Vulture = 7 Bald Eagle = 1 N/Harrier = 4 Sharp-Shinned = 36 Coopers = 2 Red-Shoulder = 7 Red-Tailed = 715 Rough-Legged = 5 Golden Eagle = 3 Merlin = 1 1 Juv Golden Eagle @ 11:47 EST 1 " " " @ 11:50 EST 1 " "

[Ontbirds] 3 golden eagles over leslie street spit

Hey Birders, I just had three golden eagles fly over Leslie street spit, towards high park. If anyone is quick on their toes, they may be able to see them fly over. This was around 4:50 pm. ___ ONTBIRDS is p

[Ontbirds] Strong Raptor Flight this afternoon over Oshawa Airport

There was a steady procession this afternoon of raptors over my home on the se side of Oshawa Airport(Bessborough Park). These birds were flying nw to avoid and rain/snowshowers in Whitby and south Oshawa Final tally hours 12:30-1:39 pm 2:30-4pm Weather: Dark Clouds,patches of sun, snow shower

[Ontbirds] Cave Swallows and Rough-legged Hawk, Leslie Street Spit

Hey Birders, With the winds finally shifting, it was a good day at the Tommy Thompson Park Bird Research Station. There were flocks of Red-winged Blackbirds in the hundreds (with some Common Grackles mixed in) as well as Snow Buntings and American Pipits. A lone Lapland Longspur also flew over. Ou

[Ontbirds] Wilson's Phalarope at Blenheim Lagoons

A WILSON'S PHALAROPE was at Blenheim S. L. this afternoon in Pond 1. It is a record late for the Rondeau birding area. The last late date was 21 Oct 2006 at the same location found by myself. Presumably it is the same bird that has been hanging out there all month. Strangely, we had the recor

[Ontbirds] Caves in Onion fields

birders, At 2pm I observed 4 Cave Swallows flying in circles 300m west of Mersa rd.19 on Concession road C. Point Pelee Birding area. Dean Ware Wheatley ON. peleeisbir...@hotmail.com ___ ONTBIRDS is

[Ontbirds] Cattle Egrets - Kingsville

I was working at Maston Produce today, at the corner of County Road 18 and County Road 31, on the Kingsville side of the dividing line between the Town of Leamington and the Town of Kingsville. Shortly after 10:00 a.m. 2 Cattle Egrets flew into storm water retention pond of this large greenhouse co

[Ontbirds] Strong Raptor Flight over Oshawa Airport

There is a steady procession of raptors over my home on the se side of Oshawa Airport. These birds are flying nw to avoid and rain/snowshowers in whitby and south Oshawa. The line the flight is taking it should put these birds near the Iroquois shoreline hawk watch In 30 mins from my driveway

[Ontbirds] Yellow-throated Warbler - Shell Pier Oakville

Just received a phone call from Mark Jennings that Bill Crins has located a Yellow-throated Warbler in the maples west of Shell Pier in Oakville. Shell Pier is located just east of Burloak Drive and just west of Great Lakes Blvd in Oakville. There is a small parkette located at the lake at th

[Ontbirds] Swallow sp. and Black Scoter at Col. Sam Smith Park, 10 am.

Hey birders. This morning at around 10 am, I had a swallow fly by that was either a cliff or cave swallow. Lighting was poor, and it was 400-500 m out over Lake Ontario, flying West towards Port Credit. I also saw 5 horned larks and 6 snow buntings that flew in off the lake. 1 fe

[Ontbirds] cave swallows at Leslie St. Spit, Toronto

There were 10 cave swallows on the spit this afternoon. They were circling together over the lake on the east side of the spit just past where the road forks as you head out on the spit, approx. 1.5 km from the parking lot. Also about 100 snow buntings and 2 short-eared owls just a bit further sou

[Ontbirds] Snow Buntings - North of Walkerton Conc 14 East

We had a small flock(20+) of Snow Buntings feeding on our driveway this morning. ___ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list ONTBIRDS@hwcn.org For informa