Hello Ont.Birders: Sorry for the late posting ,but I was out of town do to a death in my family.On Monday July 25/05 at 8:15 EST, 9:15 DST time I observed 2 Juvenal Bald Eagles flying West and quite low over the Bayview & Sheppard area! I assume these were hatch year Florida birds which had flown North & were now returning South. Has the great escape begun??
Good Birding & Keep looking Up!! Cheers: Mike Williamson From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 28 22:55:00 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from fep4.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8116C63CFD for <[email protected]>; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:55:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mainoffice (d141-150-198.home.cgocable.net [24.141.150.198]) by fep4.cogeco.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 1840520FB; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:02:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "Cheryl Edgecombe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:02:45 -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) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 cc: Betty Blashill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Ontbirds] Hamilton Naturalists Club Birding Report - Thursday, July 28th, 2005 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 02:55:01 -0000 At 11:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 28th, 2005 this is the HNC Birding Report: Common Merganser Osprey Semipalmated Plover Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Bonaparte's Gull Yellow-billed Cuckoo Acadian Flycatcher Magnolia Warbler Northern Waterthrush Scarlet Tanager Another quiet week on the homefront. A few migrants are beginning to trickle through the area with many to come in the next few weeks. Not much news to report from the Hamilton Study Area so this week I am borrowing birds for those who want to travel just slightly out of the area to see new lands. The hotspot for shorebirds is Townsend Sewage Lagoons. The cells here are excellent for shorebirds to gather as water levels are low and there is lots of goo to hold the insects to feed on. Reports from this week include Semipalmated Plover, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Baird's Sandpiper, Stilt Sandpiper, Short-billed and Long-billed Dowitcher and Bonaparte's Gull. In all eleven species of shorebirds were seen here in the week. This spot should be checked on a regular basis as this seems to be the best show in town. The lagoons are located just outside the town of Townsend. A trip to Spooky Hollow a tract of land owned by the Hamilton Naturalists Club near the town of Normandale today produced the following species Yellow-billed Cuckoo (2), Acadian Flycatcher viewed for about 20 minutes on the Marion Chivas Trail about 50 metres from where it returns to the main trail, Hooded Warbler, Magnolia Warbler(2), and at least a half dozen Scarlet Tanagers, only one was a male in breeding plumage. Now returning to the Hamilton Area at Shoreacres/Paletta Park on Lakeshore an early Northern Waterthrush visited the area last Friday. Along the lake, a lone Common Merganser was seen on Tuesday. At the high level bridge on York Road, an Osprey was seen carrying a fish. Have a great long weekend, get out there and bird!!! Report your sightings so that my Hamilton Report is a little more beefy next week. Good Birding, Cheryl Edgecombe 905-381-0329 HNC Hotline
