[Ontbirds] Kingston Area Birds: 23-30 May 2014

2014-05-30 Thread Mark D. Read via ONTBIRDS
Kingston Field Naturalists (KFN) maintains records in a 50km radius of MacDonald Park, Kingston. Birders already using eBird are encouraged to share their sightings with 'Kingston FN'. Alternatively, please email, phone or post records directly to me - contact details below. Note: some sightings ma

[Ontbirds] Hamilton Naturalists Club Birding Report - Friday, May 30th, 2014

2014-05-30 Thread Cheryl Edgecombe via ONTBIRDS
LAUGHING GULL WORM-EATING WARBLER Blue-winged Teal Wild Turkey Red-throated Loon Common Loon Red-necked Grebe Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Whimbrel Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Dunlin Short-billed Dowitcher Bonaparte's Gull Little Gull Common Tern Yellow-billed Cuckoo Co

[Ontbirds] Whimbrel watch May 30

2014-05-30 Thread Tim McCarthy via ONTBIRDS
Time to get back to our gardening for us Whimbrel watchers as it looks like the big flocks are all through. Thanks to Marc Miron for yesterday's addition of 80 birds (which was substantiated by added details and a photograph) and to Vivek Kumar for 3 more and to George Parker for just being ther

[Ontbirds] Shorebirds@Presqu'ile

2014-05-30 Thread William Gilmour via ONTBIRDS
Greetings Ontbirders Good numbers of shorebirds are moving through Presqu'ile today. 450+ Dunlin, 55 Ruddy Turnstones, 60 Black-bellied Plovers, 3 Golden Plovers, 1 Red Knot, 2 Sanderling, 1 White-rumped Sandpiper,125 Semi-palmated Sandpipers, plus the breeding Spotted Sandpipers and Killdeer.

[Ontbirds] Long Point update - Painted Bunting, Western Kingbird, Summer Tanager

2014-05-30 Thread Stu Mackenzie via ONTBIRDS
Ontario Birders, The Long Point Bird Observatory sightings board is updated to May 30. http://www.bsc-eoc.org/longpoint/index.jsp?targetpg=lpbosight Highlights from this past week include: Painted Bunting, Western Kingbird, Summer Tanager, and Laughing Gull. Explore the Long Point Birding Trai

[Ontbirds] Shorebirds-Presqu'ile P. Pk., Cobourg

2014-05-30 Thread dave milsom via ONTBIRDS
This morning, May 30th, between 8 and 8.45 am, I found the following at the water's edge near Beach #1 at Presqu'ile Provincial Park : 1 Whimbrel, 1 Red Knot, 1 Short-billed Dowitcher, 1 Willet, 20 Ruddy Turnstones, 16 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 1 Least Sandpiper, 14 Sanderling, 3 Semipalmated Plo

Re: [Ontbirds] Whimbrels arrive in Elgin County in numbers

2014-05-30 Thread Wayne Renaud via ONTBIRDS
HI Dave: my name Wayne Renaud and collecting high counts of Whimbrel in the Great Lakes Basin and I have regarding an e.mail on E.birds for 22 May 2013: "This morning between 0945 and 1015 at Port Bruce, we observed 3 flocks of Whimbrel [8, 14 and 16 birds] totaling 38 individuals moving west