I am currently looking at a curlew sandpiper in the shorebird cell at hillman
marsh.
Dean Ware
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Tim McCarthy and I (with the help of Linda Wells and John Stirrat in
the morning) undertook 13 hours on todays watch, starting at 5:30 am
and ending at 6:30 pm.
We had fairly good luck on shorebird today, the best day so far for
Whimbrels with 769 in 18 flocks. They were highly concentrated
Nighthawks are still drifting through Scugog Twp in small numbers as are
Blackpoll Warblers.
Today at Thickson Woods/Meadow I had an adult male Peregrine Falcon and a very
late Hermit Thrush. At Oshawa Second Marsh I had a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
and at Darlington Beach I had 14 Whimbrel and
The most interesting bird sighted during the Huron Fringe Birding Festival's
first day was an American White Pelican making a fly-over of the south-end of
MacGregor Point Provincial Park.
The Huron Fringe Birding Festival is running from May 25 to June 3, 2012.
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Hello Ontbirders -
Continuing the thread on Whimbrels, I observed approx. 150 Whimbrel
and 1 Willet wheeling around Rondeau Bay at 4pm on May 23;
also (attn Chip W.) there are 8 Herring Gull nests and 45+ Double-crested
Cormorant nests on the small crescent islands in Rondeau Bay located approx
Sorry, should be Black-throated Green Warbler.
Kevin Shackleton
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From: kevin.shackle...@rogers.com
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 21:53:10
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About 500 metres from the parking lot in the flooded area with dead-tree spires
2 Olive-side Flycatchers. Canada Warbler, singing Connecticut Warbler in the
poplars on the "bulge" of the "B" on the trail, Black-throated Warbler,
Ovenbirds and Nashville. A soaring Broad-winged Hawk over the for
On Friday, May 25th, 2012, this is the HNC Birding Report:
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
MISSISSIPPI KITE
FISH CROW
ACADIAN FLYCATCHER
Tundra Swan
Northern Shoveler
Canvasback
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
This is a late report that I received last night. On Saturday, May 19 a
mostly white Snowy Owl was observed just south of Hwy 417 at the Hwy 138
exit east of Casselman. The bird was on the ground atop a mound of topsoil
south of the offramp at dusk. There had not been any Snowy reports from
thi
Ontbirders:
This morning from 7:15 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. I watched for Whimbrel from the
edge of the Hamilton Study Area at J.C.Saddington Park in MIssissauga. I
was delighted to have three, similarly sized flocks of Whimbrel, totaling
199 birds. I also had a flock of 16 Red Knots and two flocks of sm
Iain Wilkes, Ric Muise, Ryan LeBlanc and Kevin Shackleton had an adult Golden
Eagle soaring near Mt McKay.
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No rarities to report but a diversity of shorebirds were arriving in
good numbers this past week. Landbird migration has slowed down
considerably but some birds are still moving through. In particular,
late-migrating species such as COMMON NIGHTHAWK, EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE,
ALDER and WILLOW FLYCATCHERS
Stilt Sandpiper, Dunlins, Least Sandpipers, Semi-palmated Sandpipers, 2
Whimbrel, Lesser Yellowlegs, Black-bellied Plovers harassed by a Peregrine
Falcon at 10:30 a. m.
Peter Lyons, Jim Miller, Iain Wilkes, Ric Muise and Kevin Shackleton and Ryan
LeBlanc.
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25.05.12 - as of 6.30 am the Piping Plover was absent from Reesor Pond - 1
White-rumped Sandpiper
remained as a consolation prize - Reesor Pond lies just north of Hwy 407 on
Reesor Road in Markham
- cheers - Stan Long
Between dawn and 6:15am I observed 200+birds in 5 flocks passing westward
along the lakeshore. One flock of 34 birds went inland over carruthers marsh in
southeast Ajax to avoid dark clouds to the west.
Tyler Hoar
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After sunset last night on Torrance Barrens my wife and I had ringside seats
to performances by 5 Common Nighthawk, 20 Whip-poor-will and one American
Woodcock.
Because of the elevation on the barrens we could follow the Nighthawk's
curious flight for some distance and see, and then hear their
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