Birding just from Niagara Falls to the control gates (about 1/2 mile upriver from the falls), Betsy and I had 8 species of gulls today - 2 GLAUCOUS, 2 ICELAND, 4 LESSER BLACK-BACKEDS, 1 LITTLE GULL, the four common species. Most of these were seen from the Ontario side except for a Lesser or two from Goat Island, NY. The Little Gull was with a flock of Bonaparte's that numbered about 2500 (most of these were rafting on the upstream side of the control gates). There have been very few Bonies in the falls area for a month or so, so I assume that these are part of the massive group that was much closer to Fort Erie than Niagara Falls last weekend. We also had great looks at the immature female PINE WARBLER that has been at Dufferin Islands Nature Area (roughly half-way between the falls and the control gates) for two weeks now. Park on the north side of the park where people feed the ducks and small birds). Look on the slope across from the small parking area. The warbler feeds on the ground and downed trees where seed has been dropped. Good birding! Willie ---------- Willie D'Anna Betsy Potter Wilson, NY [EMAIL PROTECTED] From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jan 29 12:12:38 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp2.execulink.net (smtp2.execulink.net [199.166.6.52]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8966664479 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:12:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from peat3k7xxjb5or (ppp177.a1-1.56k.execulink.com [209.239.9.179]) by smtp2.execulink.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k0THCOnE029212 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:12:37 -0500 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Pete Read" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:12:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 Thread-Index: AcYk9zC/o6MXSHPURPyfl4/GzYXTaQ== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Pine Grosbeaks - Pinery Park X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 17:12:38 -0000
Hello All, A soggy Pete Read found three Pine Grosbeaks at Pinery Park this morning around 11:00 am. The birds were feeding on high bush cranberry near a boardwalk where Riverside Trail comes to the water. For those of you familiar with Pinery, this is the area where the Red Headed Woodpecker is found. Sue Read
