SNOWY EGRET LAUGHING GULL DICKCISSEL
White-winged Scoter Horned Grebe Least Bittern Great Egret Merlin Lesser Yellowlegs Upland Sandpiper Bonaparte's Gull Little Gull Veery Northern Waterthrush Nashville Warbler Magnolia Warbler Canada Warbler White-throated Sparrow Bobolink Well, the word is quiet on the home front but birders in the HSA can't complain about quality. The top of the list proves that. The SNOWY EGRET, first discovered two weekends ago, continues to show in the Windermere Basin. Over the past week a number of Great Egrets have joined in the festivities. A great find was a LAUGHING GULL last Wednesday at Jones Road in Stoney Creek/Winona. The observer was looking for the Little Gull which was present earlier in the day and lucked out. A Bonaparte's and Great Black-backed Gull added to the variety here. Unfortunately the LAUGHING GULL was a short wonder but another report from a week and a half ago puts one at Oakville Harbour. There are a number of these birds being reported on the lake, so patience and luck is what it's all about. Well, if you don't have a DICKCISSEL on your year list yet, now is the time. An unprecedented invasion of these birds is occurring all through the province. The one found at 825 Green Mountain Road is still present and 5 more have popped up near the Velodrome on Louis St. Germaine Blvd which runs off Tremaine in Milton. I am sure there are others around as anywhere there seems to be Bobolinks, these birds crop up. In the odds and sods, five White-winged Scoter were seen off Canada Centre for Inland Waters. A Horned Grebe was reported from Bronte Harbour. Least Bitterns can still be heard calling near Bronte Marsh, Grass Lake in Glen Morris and Neibauer's Pond west of Guelph. Nesting Merlins are in the news with a new nest being found in southeast Oakville. At Windermere Basin our first of fall migrant Lesser Yellowlegs were seen early in the week. Hopefully the shorebird habitat gets better here. A family of Upland Sandpipers are present on South Grimsby Road 15 near Mud. Up to 24 Bonaparte's Gull and a Little Gull were at Oakville Harbour with 16 Bonaparte's Gulls counted at Grimsby Harbour last weekend. A neat place to go this time of year is the Lafarge Trail off 10th Concession West in Flamborough. A taste of the north species such as Veery, Northern Waterthrush, Nashville and Canada Warbler and White-throated Sparrow can be found nesting here. Lastly, a Magnolia warbler was a very interesting find the week before last near Garth and Fennell in Hamilton. That's the news for now. Lots of goodies popping up province wide. Wild weather and a tropical storm in the Gulf brought some goodies in south of us. Keep your eyes to the sky anything can happen. Happy Canada Day and Happy Summer Cheryl Edgecombe --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide Visit the OFO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists
