[Ontbirds] great egret Hilliardton marsh

2018-06-01 Thread BruceMurphy via ONTBIRDS
Only the second ever great egret was spotted in Timiskaming by Chris Sukha and myself today and a photo was taken by Mohammed Fammy just before a bald eagle flew over and flushed it south of the marsh and it has not been seen since. Directions to the hilliardton marsh can best be found on marsh

[Ontbirds] leconte sparrow bnded at the Hilliardton marsh research and education center

2018-05-14 Thread BruceMurphy via ONTBIRDS
greetings birders banders at the Hilliardton marsh research center were excited to get the stations first ever Leconte sparrow one had been sighted over 25 years ago in a survey done before the marsh was created it came on a day where 10 new species arrived so the migration has just reached us w

[Ontbirds] painted bunting in timmins male ruby throat timiskaming

2018-05-09 Thread BruceMurphy via ONTBIRDS
I would encourage folks to check out ebird to see location if there is interest and saw posting about male ruby throat in carelton place so i thought I would let folks know that today the hummers have arrived up north ___ ONTBIRDS is presented by the On

[Ontbirds] timiskaming winter finch update

2018-01-06 Thread BruceMurphy via ONTBIRDS
Greetings birders I thought I would let birders know about the lack of redpolls visiting feeders in the north east we are seeing lots of small flocks on most of the secondary roads in good boreal habitat but with abundant food they do not seem interested in feeders. One hoary redpoll has been se

[Ontbirds] pine and connecticut warbler hilliardton marsh

2017-05-25 Thread BruceMurphy via ONTBIRDS
Just letting folk interested in our marsh nestled in the boreal forest that we caught our very first connecticut warbler today and recently banded a pine warbler which are very rare for our neck of the woods . We are experiencing our best warbler banding season on record with record numbers of c

[Ontbirds] yellow headed blackbird hilliardton marsh

2017-05-06 Thread BruceMurphy via ONTBIRDS
the hilliardton marsh research and education centre was delighted to have the chance to band a beautiful yellow headed blackbird on may 5th apparently it had been sighted a day earlier but not reported by an inexperienced volunteer then was heard singing by Chris Sukha before it was captured in