[Ontbirds] Fw: Pine Warbler at High Park

Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -Original Message- From: robert.cumm...@rogers.com Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:11:42 To: Reply-To: robert.cumm...@rogers.com Subject: Pine Warbler at High Park At 11AM near the ponds in the south-east corner of High Park a sin

[Ontbirds] HSR: Grimsby, ON - Beamer Conservation Area (22 Apr 2011) 2023 Raptors

Grimsby, ON - Beamer Conservation Area Grimsby, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Apr 22, 2011 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Black Vul

[Ontbirds] prairie warbler - Stratford

The bird was seen again and photographed at 10:50 a.m. this morning. Ken from the Stratford Field Naturalists was here and saw it too. Came again around 2:00 p.m. If you come, park on St. Vincent St. S. near #350 . There should be a walkway into thre park. Go intot he park and turn left. Down

[Ontbirds] 32 American Avocets at Presqu'ile

Greetings Ontbirders, As the rain cleared at 1230 I went to the beach at Presqu'ile Provincial Park to see what might be around and was stunned to find an eye-popping 32 Avocets sleeping in a tight flock at water's edge near the roped off area at the south end of the swimming beach (Beach 3

[Ontbirds] Red-necked Grebe Ottawa

There were 10 Red-necked Grebe at the Shirley's Bay boat launch at 2pm. Also present were 1 Horned Grebe and a sub-adult Bald Eagle. Andrew Hayden Park featured 3 Redhead among a mixed flock of Greater and Lesser Scaup. Directions from Neily World >From Highway 417 (The Queensway) take exit 134

[Ontbirds] Col. Sam Smith - Male Harlequin yes, but Western/Eared Grebes none

A cold, wet start towards Toronto in rain that never showed up in my checked radar ( http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html?id=WKR  for King City environs) albeit promised light showers were forecast with increasingly gusty winds. But the downpour stopped just as I arrived at Humber C

[Ontbirds] Point Pelee National Park Migration update - April 23, 2011

Hello Birders! What a beautiful day it has been in the park. We've had lots of visitors and people out looking for birds over the last couple of days. The first Yellow-breasted Chat of the season was reported from the south end of the DeLaurier Trail yesterday, by some very excited, new birder

[Ontbirds] 3 Black Vultures, Woodstock, April 23

Ontbirders, At about 6.45 this evening I had the exceptional luck of having 3 Black Vultures fly over my backyard, at literally tree-top height. They circled leisurely [low enough to see their toes hanging out!] and then drifted off to the west. I called Ross Snider, as he lives west along the

[Ontbirds] Presqu'ile: Avocets -- YES

We watched the sun set on the Avocets. They were still at the south end of beach 3, bathing and preening by the water's edge. Good birding indeed! Cheers, Lynne and Ivor Location ___ ONTBIRDS

[Ontbirds] Ravenscrest/Hampshire Parks, Etobicoke: both species of waterthrushes and Indigo Bunting

I spent 2 hours birding Mimico Creek through Ravencrest and Hampshire Heights Parks this afternoon enjoy some summer-like weather and saw some interesting birds. The Louisiana Waterthrush and two Northern Waterthrushes were south of Rathburn and technically in Hampshire Height Park. The Northe

[Ontbirds] Presqu'ile: Avocets -- no more

The Avocets just flew west and out of sight. Cheers, Lynne and Ivor Location ___ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird repo

[Ontbirds] HSR: Grimsby, ON - Beamer Conservation Area (23 Apr 2011) 121 Raptors

Grimsby, ON - Beamer Conservation Area Grimsby, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Apr 23, 2011 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Black Vul

[Ontbirds] common black-headed gull NOTL

This evening at approx. 7:15pm an adult Common Black-headed Gull flew out of the Niagara River into Lake Ontario at Niagara-on-the-lake in the company of a few 1000 Boneparte's Gulls, 200 Common Terns and 2 adult Little Gulls. These were observed over the course of about half and hour. The bird wa

[Ontbirds] Brighton Constructed Wetland Now Open

Hi from Brighton The wetlands are now open and our Osprey are back, just to let you know that this coming week we will be doing a little work in the wetland, I will be running hydro to just beside the Osprey nest, I was hoping to get done sooner but none the less the MOE requires that we monitor

[Ontbirds] Questionnaire: What is the Detail You Want to See in Park Management Plans?

Dear Ontario Field Ornithologists member, My name is Julia Coburn; I am a graduate student at the University of Waterloo with a focus on park management planning. To assist in our knowledge of park management plans in Ontario Provincial Parks, I am interested in understanding the perspectives of

[Ontbirds] Black back wood peckers

A pair of Black Back Woodpeckers seen on the Lower Red Trail at the Altberg Wildlife Sanctuary Nature Reserve (AWSNR) just south of the big windfall. They appeared to be making a home in a dead tree. The (AWSNR) is at 4164 Monck Road, half way between Norland (Hwy #5) and Kinmount (County