----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Williamson To: Mark Cranford Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 4:13 PM Subject: O.F.O member passed away
Hi Mark;I dont know whether this should be posted on Ont.Birds,Iwill leave that upto you.I received an e-mail from Rayfield Pye notifying me of the passing away of an avid birder & member. Susan Morgan wife of Brian Steele passed away after a valiant fight against an invasive form of cancer!! I`m sure many Ont. Birders have met Susan & know of her love for birding!! Thankfully she fought & hung in to see first hand the great invasion of Great Gray Owls this year! Susan passed away Tuesday August 16/2005.Viewing is 6PM-9Pm Thursday & Friday at 79 Baldwin St.Memorial Chapel in Brooklin Ont. Funeral Saturday at 2;PM.! Brooklin United Church I will leave this posting upto your discretion. Sadly; Mike Williamson From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 18 22:12:29 2005 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 338AC642DC for <[email protected]>; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:12:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mainoffice (d141-150-198.home.cgocable.net [24.141.150.198]) by fep2.cogeco.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 72D11153C; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:14:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "Cheryl Edgecombe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:14:17 -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, August 18th, 2005 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:12:29 -0000 At 10:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 18th, 2005, this is the HNC Birding Report: BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE WESTERN SANDPIPER WHITE-EYED VIREO American Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Green-winged Teal White-winged Scoter Hooded Merganser Osprey Broad-winged Hawk Virginia Rail Sora Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Phalarope Bonaparte's Gull Common Tern Ruby-throated Hummingbird Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Gray Catbird Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Nashville Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Black-and-White Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Bobolink Baltimore Oriole What a busy week it has been in the HSA. The birding hotspot of the week was Rattray Marsh located at the end of Bexhill Drive just east of Erin Mills off of Lakeshore Road in Mississauga. This week a WESTERN SANDPIPER was seen up until I arrived on Wednesday morning and on Tuesday a report of a WHITE-EYED VIREO. The mud flat best seen from the lake where the outlet is produced many great finds this week including Great Egret, Great Blue Heron, American Bittern, Green Heron, Virginia Rail, Sora, Hooded Merganser, Semipalmated Plover, Semipalmated, Least, Pectoral, Spotted and Solitary Sandpiper, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Short-billed Dowitcher. To add to this cornucopia of birds many passerines passed through the park including Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird, Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher, Gray Catbird, Warbling Vireo, Nashville Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Black and White Warbler and Canada Warbler. East winds were blowing over the past two days and last weekend. The best find from this venue was a juvenile BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE last Sunday. Other birds seen here this week include Green-winged Teal, White-winged Scoter, Sanderling, and Great Black-backed and Bonaparte's Gulls. Two Common Terns visited the Hamilton Harbour in the week. A good variety of shorebirds have been seen in many spots in the Hamilton Area through the week. At Pier 24 off of Eastport Drive in Hamilton, Wilson's Phalarope, Least Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper and Lesser Yellowlegs. Grimsby Sewage Lagoons have been quiet with Lesser Yellowlegs and Solitary Sandpiper being the highlight. The pond viewed from the North Service Road in Centennial Park has had a good variety of shorebirds including Black-bellied Plover and Stilt Sandpiper among the other mix of peeps and yellowlegs. The Valley Inn has some mud exposed yielding Semipalmated Plover, Lesser Yellowlegs, Greater Yellowlegs, Solitary Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper, and White-rumped Sandpiper. Another hotspot of the week was Woodland Cemetery. Seen here on Monday and Tuesday, Yellow-rumped Warblers in surprising numbers, Cape May Warbler, Nashville Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Bay-breasted Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, Alder Flycatcher, Eastern Wood Pewee, Great Crested Flycatcher, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Red-eyed Vireo, Warbling Vireo, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Bobolink, Baltimore Oriole in numbers, Broad-winged Hawk and Osprey. - Other spots along the lake this week reported a variety of warblers and flycatchers moving through similar to the mix at Woodland Cemetery. Shell Park was great this morning with Pine Warbler being seen here along with the other mix mentioned above and Shoreacres was busy yesterday with Wilson's Warbler being seen with its mix of migrants. Thanks to all who sent reports this week of migrating birds, they are most helpful for this report and for our Noteworthy Bird Records for the Hamilton Study Area, keep them coming. Have a great week, Cheryl Edgecombe HNC Hotline 905-381-0329
