While weathering bounts of rain, drissle and fog to try and pump out sitings of shorebirds for this year, Jacques Giraud and I happened upon three Upland Sandpipers in fodder field. [Other nice finds today were one female Red-necked Phalarope and 3 White-rumped Sandpipers at Townsend Sewage Lagoon and the two Black-necked Stilts and two pairs of Wilson's Phalaropes at Jarvis Sewage Lagoon rounding out the day with 17 species of shorebirds.] The Upland Sandpipers were seen at the intersection of Kohler Rd and Indian Line. Kohler Rd is 4.9k west of Haldimand on Hwy 3. The birds were seen in the field on the NW side of the road. The GPS location of the birds is N42 53.609 W79 51.649. Wayne Renaud. From "ronaldj..fleming"@sympatico.ca Sun May 23 18:34:55 2004 Return-Path: <"ronaldj..fleming"@sympatico.ca> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts16.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.4]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1087F483DD for <[email protected]>; Sun, 23 May 2004 18:34:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sympatico.ca ([216.209.164.172]) by tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.netESMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 23 May 2004 18:36:03 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 18:32:25 -0400 From: "Ronald J. Fleming" <"ronaldj..fleming"@sympatico.ca> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en]C-SYMPA (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ONTBIRDS <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Ontbirds]York Region Birdathon X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "ronaldj..fleming"@sympatico.ca X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 22:34:55 -0000
I realize there are countless birdathoners out there this month, but thought I'd report my team's efforts within York region as a report for birders who get out birding in this area just north of Toronto from time to time. Despite having to cut the day short due to heavy rains in the late afternoon/early evening, Kevin Shackleton, Keith Dunn, John McLean, John Watson and I still managed to turn up 120 species. (I should add that we were joined for half the day by Dr. Henry Barnett as well.) Capitalization of species below is for quick scanning of notable birds for York region, not for drama. Highlights included 19 warbler species (blue-winged, mourning, Canada and blackpoll among them), RED-HEADED WOODPECKER on Pine Valley Road southeast of Nobleton, UPLAND SANDPIPER, OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER and three MOCKINGBIRDS north of Kleinburg, BLACK TERNS along the canal northeast of Bradford, PIED-BILLED GREBE and COMMON MOORHEN at McKenzie Marsh in Aurora, DUNLIN, REDHEAD and RUDDY DUCK at the Schomberg lagoons, PILEATED WOODPECKER south of Pottageville, OSPREY at Cook's Bay in Keswick, two different groups of WILD TURKEY on the road to Virginia Beach, and both NORTHERN HARRIER and AMERICAN BITTERN in the large marshland at the south end of the Yonge Street extension (off Ravenshoe Road) in southwest Keswick. For more specific directions to any of these birds, please e-mail me. Ron Fleming, Newmarket P.S. For regional compiler Theo Hofmann: this morning in the Hall Tract I once again heard the red-shouldered hawk that his been there since mid-April and observed an osprey flying by going southeast.
