Rondeau Daily Report May16/04 A beautiful sunny day but quiet for birds. Most of the warblers seem to have left last night. Migrant warblers still present included Magnolia, Bay- breasted, Black-throated Green, Blackburnian, Cape May and Canada. Singles each of Blackpoll and Hooded reported. Conspicuous today were the thrushes, unlike the warblers they seem to be here in the same numbers as yesterday. Veery, Grey-cheeked, Wood and SwainsonÂ’s are all present.
An intrepid soul walked the south beach bar today and got WilsonÂ’s Phalarope, Black-bellied Plover, Short-billed Dowitcher, Ruddy Turnstone, Northern Shoveler, Black Tern, a Goshawk and our first Willow Flycatcher of the year. The Acadian Flycatcher was heard this AM in the same place it has been for the past two days - north of the Visitor Centre on the Harrison Trail. PS - 2 Palms were reported late yesterday for a 30 Warbler day at Rondeau yesterday. The Friends of Rondeau are sponsoring two guided hikes daily until May 23rd. For more information check out their website www.rondeauprovincialpark.ca David Bree Friends of Rondeau Birder in Residence ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun May 16 17:26:46 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from web41504.mail.yahoo.com (web41504.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.87]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D0DB0489A8 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 16 May 2004 17:26:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from [209.29.81.45] by web41504.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 16 May 2004 14:26:49 PDT Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 14:26:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Anthony Zammit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [Ontbirds] Ruthven Park & Taquanyah CA X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 21:26:46 -0000 Saturday, May 15....... Ruthven Park: Brewster's Warbler, singing male, observed in the slough forest to the east of the banding station. Taquanyah CA: Prothonotary Warbler, Sedge Wren, Virginia Rail, Clay-colored Sparrow. Both SEWR and CCSP could be heard in the cattail marsh east of Decewsville Road. PRWA and VIRA were both heard in swamp and marsh areas further east. Directions: Ruthven Park is located about 10 minutes north of Cayuga on Regional Road 54 in the Regional Municipality of Haldimand-Norfolk. Taquanyah CA is located minutes from Ruthven, and can be reached by taking Hwy 3 west from Cayuga. Turn right (north) onto Decewsville Road, which runs up the middle of the Conservation Area. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun May 16 18:02:05 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from fep2.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE9AC47FC3 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 16 May 2004 18:02:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mainoffice (d141-159-105.home.cgocable.net [24.141.159.105]) by fep2.cogeco.net (Postfix) with SMTP id A08522D41 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 16 May 2004 18:02:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "Cheryl Edgecombe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 18:02:11 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Importance: Normal Subject: [Ontbirds] Wilson's Plover - Tollgate Ponds, Hamilton Harbour, Update 5:00 p.m. X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 22:02:06 -0000 The Wilson's Plover was still present about 4:45 p.m.. It was present at 4:00 p.m. and then disappeared for a while. It takes patience as there is alot of garbage around in the cell. Trucks may be moving about in there tomorrow so if you are still looking to see the bird it may be wise to arrive tonight or early tomorrow. Of course, as usual no guarantees. Directions from Toronto: Take QEW to QEW Niagara. At the exit to QEW Niagara you will see a sign for Eastport Drive. Get onto Eastport Drive and it will wind its way around and over the Burlington Lift Bridge. Continue to follow Eastport Drive past the first Tollgate Pond (large square pond on right) and just east of this there will be a muddy area where they are filling in the pond that was there. The bird is running around on the mud in this area. Good views with a scope but can be seen with binoculars. Directions from Niagara: Take QEW Niagara to Centennial Drive. Get off at Centennial and go north to lake. Turn left at the lights and follow Van Wagners Beach Road past Hutch's Restaurant to a set of lights. At the lights, turn left (Beach Blvd) and follow to Eastport Drive . You will see signs for Eastport Drive, it is a right turn not too long after you get on Beach. Continue along Eastport Drive. The muddy area which it is located on the left just before the large square pond. Cheers, Cheryl
