[Ontbirds] Hamilton Naturalists Club Birding Report - Friday, April 22, 2011

2011-04-22 Thread Cheryl Edgecombe
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN BLACK VULTURE Cackling Goose Wood Duck Blue-winged Teal Green-winged Teal Wild Turkey Red-throated Loon Common Loon American Bittern Great Egret Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Golden

[Ontbirds] Common Loon - Windsor

2011-04-22 Thread kelly . morrissey
Hello, I sat in my car for protection from the rain this evening at Lakeview Park Marina in Windsor from about 6:00 p.m. until 7:30 watching the RB Gulls, Bonaparte's Gulls, Forster's Terns and occasional DC Cormorant fishing in the protected waters inside the docks. At one point a male RB Merga

[Ontbirds] Toronto Islands Today - Red-throated Loon, Sandhill Cranes, Winter Gulls, etc., etc.

2011-04-22 Thread Norm Murr
Good evening. Just got back from visiting to the Toronto Islands with Margaret Liubavicius and Ian Cannell and a very productive but windy visit it was and following are some of the birds we found on and over The Islands. Red-throated Loon overhead, Pied-billed Grebes and Canvasbacks (Trout pon

[Ontbirds] prairie warbler - Stratford

2011-04-22 Thread Jeannie Kelly
Shock of the day to look out my window about 5 p.m. and see a lone Prairie Warbler rummaging around the bottom of my feeders and going at the suet cakes. But I guess they will do just that when desperate. Very nice coloured bird with all the diagnostics showing. No time for photos as it was kee

[Ontbirds] Le Contes's

2011-04-22 Thread Gerald Guenther
At around 4:00 myself and two others from Guelph had the Le Conte's in the same area Sorry I didn't get your names The last time we saw the sparrow it went into the cedar and spruce row (Directions by James Holdsworth) - From Vansittart, go north to 59 Hwy. Travel 1 km. Take Pittock Pa

[Ontbirds] Greater White-fronted Goose at Townsend Sewage Lagoons

2011-04-22 Thread Rob Dobos
At around 1:30 pm today (April 22), Cheryl Edgecombe, Barb Charlton and I had one Greater White-fronted Goose at the Townsend Sewage Lagoons. It was amongst about a thousand Canada Geese and was originally picked out in flight when the birds flushed from the central berms. When we left the site,

[Ontbirds] Snipes and Saprrows carleton place[]

2011-04-22 Thread Iain Wilkes
Five Snipes doing their aerial displays just after dawn today maybe 1 KM south of Mclachlin road and Hwy 15, on Hwy 15 close to the marsh on the east side. Field, Song, White-throated and Savannah Sparrows in the area as well. Iain CO DSBC (NC) ___

[Ontbirds] 250+ Bohemian Waxwings still in Brighton

2011-04-22 Thread Ian Shanahan
Hello birders, 250+ Bohemian Waxwings and about 30 Cedar Waxwings continue to occupy the Kingsley Ave./Dorman St./Cheer Dr. neighbourhood of Brighton. Brighton is well signed south of Highway 401 exit 509. Dorman Street is a right-hand turn shortly after one enter Brighton from the 401. Best,

[Ontbirds] Le Conte's Sparrow in Woodstock

2011-04-22 Thread fried_632
At around 2:05pm Erika, Georg, Ingrid Hentsch, as well as three other birders and myself saw the Le Conte's Sparrow in the same weedy field described by James Holdsworth. Just a tip if your planning on "twitching" this bird, it spends a lot of time running and hopping along the ground so its a

[Ontbirds] Ottawa Area: Black Scoter, Red-bellied Woodpecker & migrants

2011-04-22 Thread Bruce Di Labio
Hello Ontbirders Great weather for birding along the Ottawa River this morning between Deschenes Rapids and Constance Bay. Off Dick Bell Park at 7:00 a.m. I observed a pair of Black Scoters. This species is a very rare spring migrant and one of the few I've observed in the past 40 years. Good n

[Ontbirds] Eared Grebe Col. Sam Smith Park - Toronto

2011-04-22 Thread Garth Riley
Eared Grebe is west of the point with the telephone pole (whimbrel watch spot) south of the parking lot. Western Grebe is also south of this point as well. ___ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organizat

[Ontbirds] Greater White-fronted Goose mistaken id

2011-04-22 Thread charlie hastings
Previously I reported 2 White-fronted Geese in the Newcastle area. I am not an expert and misidentified these birds. I don't know what they are, but I wonder if they are a cross with a Canada Goose. Here is a link to the pictures I took. I would appreciate any feedback regarding the identity of the

[Ontbirds] Western Grebe - Col. Sam Smith Park - Toronto

2011-04-22 Thread Garth Riley
Western Grebe present now.Off first bay south-west of parking lot.Scope helpful but can be seen with binoculars.Park is at foot of Kipling Ave. South of Lakeshore Blvd. ___ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial bir

[Ontbirds] Kingston area birds to April 22, 2011

2011-04-22 Thread goodcompany
There was not much chance of being overwhelmed by migrants this week. Those that did arrive trickled in to give us a decent variety but the dam will surely break with the first warm day. There were 2 Great Egrets in the marsh east of Westbrook last Friday and a Sandhill Crane was at Elginburg y