Today Wednesday Sept 1st 04, I spent the better part of the afternoon walking around Cootes in Hamilton. Walking the south shore trail from Cootes road I found two Great Egrets and a Great Blue Heron, these spooked and flew across an expanse of open water on the right of the trail, coming to rest beside the rushes on the far side of the open water they scared up the White Pelican. The Pelican did a once around and then settled back in a little further from me than when it started. I waited 45 minutes but it never came back up for another viewing. Along the same trail there was an abundance of Warblers including a couple of Connecticut Warblers and there was several Vireos around. Off to the north trail for quick look see brought me the fortune of seeing the Pileated Woodpecker right near the backs of the houses near the start of the trails. More Warblers and Vireos here too as well as several Veery.
Good birding to all Ian Stanley From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Sep 1 18:17:16 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from omta08.mta.everyone.net (sitemail3.everyone.net [216.200.145.37]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5127247F9F for <[email protected]>; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 18:17:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sitemail.everyone.net (bigip1-snat [216.200.145.29]) by omta08.mta.everyone.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 812903FFA9 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 15:17:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by sitemail.everyone.net (Postfix, from userid 99) id E6ADE3953; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 15:17:29 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 15:17:29 -0700 (PDT) From: anthony miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] X-Originating-Ip: [24.141.139.233] X-Eon-Sig: AQH9ikhBNkp5AApQbAEAAAAB,c41c3868850fd3c18b5c57de5b4767f8 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Ontbirds] Van Wagner's Beach Parasitic Jaeger ,Black Legged Kittiwake etc X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 22:17:16 -0000 The Winds Began to pick up Today While birding Van Wagners beach with Tom Thomas .We had an Adult Parasitic Jaeger & Juvenile Black Legged Kittiwake offering great views. Other birds that we saw were 5 Sanderling , 1 Merlin and one Egret. Anthony Miller Directions Van Wagner's Beach & Ponds - Eastport Dr. to Beach Blvd. to Van Wagner's Beach Rd. (follow signs for Confederation Park), or QEW Exit 88 to Centennial Parkway (Hwy. 20, Stoney Creek) to Van Wagner's Beach Rd. then west (toward Skyway Bridge). Park near Hutch's Restaurant. _____________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, PRIVATE Surfbirder email account at http://www.surfbirds.com From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Sep 1 19:28:56 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from taiga.com (mugwump.taiga.com [68.165.54.133]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E313E47F0E for <[email protected]>; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 19:28:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 27061 invoked by uid 525); 1 Sep 2004 23:21:16 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 01 Sep 2004 07:09:16 -0400 Subject: [Ontbirds]HSR: SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark (01 Sep 2004) 155 Raptors X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:28:56 -0000 SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Sep 01, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 6 6 6 Osprey 10 10 10 Bald Eagle 4 4 4 Northern Harrier 15 15 15 Sharp-shinned Hawk 12 12 12 Cooper's Hawk 3 3 3 Northern Goshawk 0 0 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 0 0 Broad-winged Hawk 87 87 87 Red-tailed Hawk 8 8 8 Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0 Golden Eagle 0 0 0 American Kestrel 9 9 9 Merlin 1 1 1 Peregrine Falcon 0 0 0 Unknown 0 0 0 Total: 155 155 155 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 15:30:00 Total observation time: 8.5 hours Official Counter: Calvin Brennan Observers: Jim Maki, Paul Cypher, Terry Angevine Visitors: Tim Smart Jim McGrath Erik Enbody Anne Hanft Sol Hanft Weather: Today was a warm and pleasant, if somewhat hazy, day with light variable winds in the morning becoming moderate east-southeast winds in the afternoon. Observations: Overall there was quite a good flight, especially for the first day of the count highlighted by a fairly steady pulse of Broad-wings at the noon hour. In all, 155 birds of 10 species were tallied. =======================================================================Report submitted by Calvin Brennan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark information may be found at: http://www.smrr.net/
