The West Humber Naturalists (based in Kleinburg) were led on a pleasant hike up and down the Leslie Street Spit by John Watson today. The most notable bird there - a male Harlequin duck reported by Andrew Keaveny yesterday - WAS observed by Dan Derbyshire and a few other TRCA banders this morning but was not discovered by our hopeful crew when we scoped the huge number of ducks present there. As consolation we had excellent looks at 17 other duck species including GW Teal, Am. Wigeon, Northern Shoveler, Redhead, Canvasback, and the remarkable number of Hooded Mergs reported by Norm Murr yesterday. We also had several American Pipits, a few groups of Snow Buntings (the largest of these numbering 32 birds), three juvenile Black-crowned Night Herons, two Red-necked Grebes, a trio of White-winged Scoters, two Yellow-rumped Warblers, a White-crowned Sparrow, a female Am. Kestrel, and a Northern Shrike. There were numerous Tree Sparrows and, way out at near the tip of Pipit Point, a Downy Woodpecker that was likely the same one encountered by Norm yesterday. Ron Fleming, Newmarket Directions - please refer to Norm Murr's post sent out earlier today. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Nov 5 19:40:41 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from taiga.com (mail.taiga.com [204.11.32.182]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E585D63A79 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 19:40:40 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 14311 invoked by uid 30); 6 Nov 2006 00:35:07 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 05 Nov 2006 19:11:07 -0400 Subject: [Ontbirds]HSR: Holiday Beach (05 Nov 2006) 459 Raptors X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:40:41 -0000
Holiday Beach Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 05, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 266 1979 34611 Osprey 0 0 111 Bald Eagle 0 3 98 Northern Harrier 15 112 891 Sharp-shinned Hawk 16 204 9294 Cooper's Hawk 6 68 645 Northern Goshawk 0 4 18 Red-shouldered Hawk 18 112 188 Broad-winged Hawk 1 1 7729 Red-tailed Hawk 136 796 1918 Rough-legged Hawk 0 8 14 Golden Eagle 0 4 14 American Kestrel 0 1 2103 Merlin 0 5 121 Peregrine Falcon 0 5 106 Unknown 1 1 12 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 3 Total: 459 3303 57876 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 08:00:00 Observation end time: 15:00:00 Total observation time: 7 hours Official Counter: Cindy Isenhoff Observers: Fred Urie Visitors: Today's visitors included Jeff Buecking, Andy Shaw and Tim Gundlach from the Fenton / Holly area of Michigan and Evelyn Fisher of Leamington ON. Thanks for the help in spotting those birds moving through way to the north of the tower. And good luck Andy with the move to NC next week. Weather: The morning began with 100% cloud cover and haze and temps only about 6 degrees C. Light winds from the South prevailed most of the day, with some SW influence. Late morning and early afternoon were sunny and warmer, but by 1:00 pm the clouds were back in full force. Raptor Observations: Today's highlight was a very late Broad Winged Hawk that passed low and close to the tower during noon hour. Flying alone this bird took all on the tower by suprise!! A decent day for Red Shouldered and Red Tailed Hawks, but no falcons of any type seen. A few Turkey Vultures still moving thru, today north of the tower as were most of the hawks. Non-raptor Observations: Tundra Swans were seen during several hours today in groups of about 5 each flight. American Crows continue to move in large flocks....200 plus birds together. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Cindy Isenhoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Holiday Beach Migration Observatory information may be found at: http://hbmo.org/
