I was doing some lakewatching late this afternoon from the new Lakeland Centre Tower at Van Wagner's Beach in east Hamilton along with Barry Cherriere, Brandon Holden and Lauren Rae.
At about 4:40pm Brandon looked to the east and spotted three flapping / soaring jaegers a few hundred feet above the QEW. All noted the slim appearance and tern-like flight as the trio flew about in circular fashion, going south until they were lost over the escarpment. They all appeared to be light-intermediate type (morph) juveniles. It was remiss of me to fail to report another LTJ observation recently. These were two, an apparent juvenile and an adult lacking elongated central rectrices. Both of these were seen from this same location, flying offshore on Saturday afternoon August 26, when I was in the company of Barry and Linda Cherriere. Kevin McLaughlin Hamilton. Directions : To reach Van Wagner's Road, take the Centennial Parkway exit from the QEW and proceed north to Van Wagner's Road. The Lakeland Centre Tower is one to two hundred metres west of Hutch's Restaurant which is west of Centennial. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 29 21:15:02 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from BAYC1-PASMTP04.bayc1.hotmail.com (bayc1-pasmtp04.bayc1.hotmail.com [65.54.191.164]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA2E863E67 for <[email protected]>; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:15:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Originating-IP: [64.230.98.184] X-Originating-Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from sympatico.ca ([64.230.98.184]) by BAYC1-PASMTP04.bayc1.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:15:01 -0700 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:11:50 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: Tony Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Aug 2006 01:15:01.0896 (UTC) FILETIME=[B7CDD080:01C6CBD1] Subject: [Ontbirds]Carolina Wren & migrants - Ottawa X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 01:15:02 -0000 Hello Ontbirders Britannia Conservation area continues to be very productive, especially with songbird migration. This morning, large numbers were moving through, including 17 species of warbler. Magnolia, Nashville and Yellow-rumped dominated the flocks. Other interesting things included 2 Philadelphia Vireos, a male Merlin and a Solitary Sandpiper. Most interesting was a heavily worn Carolina Wren, along the southwest trail near the residential area of Britannia Road. Directions courtesy of Neily World: http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/orwo10.htm Cheerio Tony Beck 158-B Woodridge Cr., Ottawa, Ont. K2B 7S9 (613)-828-5936 website: http://www3.sympatico.ca/beck.tony/
