Couldn't resist this one : I'd been watching 5 Orioles and maybe 8 Hummingbirds this evening on the sugared water feeders when I glanced beneath the sunflower feeder and there was a male Dark-eyed Junco ! Directions: Feeders can be viewed on Glenwood Ave. one house east of Belair Drive, Bolton (off Ellwood east off #50), from the entrance to the ravine here. Dave Milsom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
References 1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 25 07:34:13 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from fep6.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CD5063480 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:34:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mainoffice (d141-150-198.home.cgocable.net [24.141.150.198]) by fep6.cogeco.net (Postfix) with SMTP id EEAA488E; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:36:56 -0400 (EDT) From: "Cheryl Edgecombe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:36:58 -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 25th, 2005 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:34:14 -0000 At 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, August 25th, 2005, this is the HNC Birding Report: RED KNOT BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Northern Shoveler Osprey Virginia Rail Black-bellied Plover American Golden Plover Semipalmated Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Great Crested Flycatcher Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Traill's Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Carolina Wren Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher Gray Catbird Yellow Warbler Chestnut sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Black and White Warbler American Redstart Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Clay-colored Sparrow Virtually everywhere you go now, migrants are about. Cool, clear nights have sped up migration this week and shorebirds and warblers continue to move in numbers. Passerines are first this week just for kicks. Many places in the Hamilton Study area have seen a diversity of warblers, vireos, flycatchers this week. Yesterday at Shoreacres on Lakeshore Road between Walker's & Appleby Line, Chimney Swift, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Warbling Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo, Carolina Wren, Gray Catbird, Yellow, Chestnut sided, Magnolia, Cape May, Black and White Warbler, Northern Waterthrush, Common Yellowthroat, Wilsons and Canada Warbler along with Yellow-bellied, Traill's and Great Crested Flycatcher, all seen within an hour and a half early in the morning. Rattray Marsh in Mississauga also busy yesterday with Bay breasted, Magnolia, American Redstart, Chestnut sided, Black and White, lots of Canada's and Wilson's, Black throated Blue and Black throated Green, Common Yellowthroat, Great crested Flycatcher, Willow and Least Flycatcher and Eastern Wood Pewee. Reports from Woodland Cemetery this week include Osprey (a few), American Redstart, Blackburnian and Black-throated Green and Clay-colored Sparrow to add to its mix. At Valley Inn .Northern Waterthrush, Wilson's Warbler, and Green Heron. At LaSalle Park Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Blue Gray Gnatcatcher, and a couple of Juv. Chestnut-sided Warblers. A Flycatcher fest this week at Courtcliff Park in Carlisle with six species being seen including three Olive-sided Flycatchers. Shorebirds continue to be good in the Hamilton Area this week. The first BUFF BREASTED SANDPIPER showed up on Airport Road in Mount Hope. From Hwy 6 turn east on Airport Road, there is a sod farm on the right about .5 km down. The bird was seen here in the company of American Golden Plover and a Black-bellied Plover. The end of the Willows has been good for shorebirds although difficult to manoeuvre the trail out to the end, perhaps the best route would be to look out from the Northshore Trails near the Marsh at the RBG. A RED KNOT first discovered Monday was seen out there yesterday along with Solitary, Spotted, Pectoral, Least, Semipalmated, White-rumped and possible Bairds Sandpiper, Semipalmated Plover, Wilson's Snipe, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs. Great Blue Heron, Great Egret and Green Heron were also seen here. Grimsby Sewage Lagoons last Friday was moderate with Semipalmated Plover, Short-billed Dowitcher, Stilt Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper and Lesser Yellowlegs among birds seen here in the north cell. In the odds and sod department this week, at Pier 25, four Northern Shovelers were seen along with Least and Semipalmated Sandpiper and Lesser Yellowlegs, Van Wagners Beach produced some Sanderlings, a Virginia Rail was seen at Kerncliffe Park in Burlington, and a yard report of Black-throated Green Warbler, Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher and fledgling Carolina Wrens all in the same week wraps up the list. That's the scoop for this week, another busy week ahead, keep up the great finds. Good birding, Cheryl Edgecombe HNC Hotline 905-381-0329
