[Ontbirds] Hamilton Naturalists Club Birding Report - Friday, October 7th, 2011

2011-10-07 Thread Cheryl Edgecombe
On Friday, October 7th, 2011, this is the HNC Birding Report: PARASITIC JAEGER Green-Winged Teal Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Red-breasted Merganser Common Loon Red-necked Grebe Great Blue Heron Great Egret Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Sharp-shinned Hawk Merlin Peregrine Falcon

[Ontbirds] HSR: Holiday Beach Conservation Area (07 Oct 2011) 567 Raptors

2011-10-07 Thread reports
Holiday Beach Conservation Area Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 07, 2011 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Turkey

[Ontbirds] Prince Edwrd Point Bird Report for week ending October 06, 2011

2011-10-07 Thread tsprague
REPORT FROM PRINCE EDWARD POINT, courtesy of bander in charge David Okines TURKEY VULTURES started moving in earnest this week with 500 counted on the 3rd and 600 on the 6th. A GREEN-WINGED TEAL was seen in the harbour on the 4th and a REDHEAD was seen among the MALLARDS there on that same

[Ontbirds] Shorebirds

2011-10-07 Thread Ellen Smout
Hi all Large number and variety of shorebirds late this afternoon 1 km north of County Rd 42 on the east side of Comber side road. The birds were between Agris and the canning place in the only wet field. The list is as follow Bb plover 300 Golden plover 600 Semi palmated plover 1 Killdeer

[Ontbirds] Common Loons

2011-10-07 Thread David T Chapman
Good Evening! Highway #60 was great for Common Loon's today by Barry's Bay, Ontario. I was out doing photography of the fall colours when I noticed my first loon. That was on Highway #62 just south of Barry's Bay on Kamaniskeg Lake. The other 2 loons were spotted on Highway 60 on Carson Lake

[Ontbirds] Kingston area birds to Oct. 7, 2011

2011-10-07 Thread Peter and Jane Good
Local waterfowl populations are starting to change. Numbers in Elevator Bay have increased; besides the widely reported Greater and Lesser Scaup and Ring-necked Ducks there were 3 Ruddy Ducks and 2 Am. Coots there on Wednesday. There were 5 Snow Geese on Wolfe Island on Saturday, then two more

[Ontbirds] Great Horned Owl - Richmond Hill

2011-10-07 Thread Glenn Steplock
Just had a very large Great Horned Owl perched on my neighbors roof, silent flight right over head to the top of a 50 foot Pine in the Rouge green way. Watched her for 15 minutes before a sudden dive, presume it found a meal. Richmond Hill, Major Mackenzie north up Leslie street to Princeton;