A cool north wind and sunny skies welcomed early morning April 30 birders to Thickson Woods in southwest Whitby. Up to 9am the following were seen-- male and female Pileated Woodpeckers, 1 Black-and-White Warbler, 2 Pine Warblers, several Palm Warblers, 1 Nashville Warbler, 1 Black-throated Green Warbler, many Yellow-rumped Warblers, 1 Eastern Phoebe, several hermit Thrushes, several Winter Wrens. A Blue Jay is busily building a nest 1/2 way up a Yellow Birch, to the immediate west of the sightings book.
A Whip-poor-will was seen in the late afternoon of Apr.29. A Green Heron and 2 Virginia Rails were seen at Cranberry Marsh on Apr.29. The Toronto Star of Apr.30 has an article (with photo) on the Bonaparte's Gulls with a few accompanying "little gulls" (presumably Little Gulls!!) seen by a number of people along the Lake Ontario shoreline to the east of Second Marsh. For Thickson Woods--exit 401 at Thickson Rd. in east Whitby--south towards the lakefront, turning east onto the deadend roadway along the north side of the pine woods. For Cranberry Marsh--driving either direction along Victoria St. in southwest Whitby, turning south onto Hall's Rd. (1 block east of Lakeridge Rd.)--south to either the north or south pathway parking areas. Doug Lockrey, Whitby, ON From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Apr 30 18:24:46 2007 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from bay0-omc2-s9.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc2-s9.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.145]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 029B6634A2 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:24:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bayc1-pasmtp06.bayc1.hotmail.com ([65.54.191.166]) by bay0-omc2-s9.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2668); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:24:45 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [67.70.150.145] X-Originating-Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from freedom ([67.70.150.145]) by bayc1-pasmtp06.bayc1.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2668); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:25:00 -0700 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Craig McLauchlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rayfield Pye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:24:56 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Apr 2007 22:25:00.0531 (UTC) FILETIME=[641C0C30:01C78B76] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Whippoorwill Whitby Ont. 04 -28-07 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:24:47 -0000 Excuse my spelling and Grammar, I am Dyslexic thank you. Whippoorwill Whitby Ont. 04 -28-07 Sorry for the lateness of this post but seeing all the other whip-or-will post's this weekend, we just wanted to add one more for the record keepers!! On Saturday April 28 07 while looking for our property line Bev found a whip-or-will hiding in the scrub in Old Whitby Ont . Craig & Bev McLauchlan Whitby -Ont-Canada-world From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Apr 30 18:53:20 2007 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts43.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.110]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42F7663470 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:53:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from home ([70.49.178.44]) by tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with SMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:53:20 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "peter Wukasch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:53:16 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Bradford area birds X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:53:20 -0000 The Bank swallows have returned to their traditional earth embankment nest site on Artesian Industrial Parkway at the Ninth Line to the north of Bradford. Some Rough wings were also present. How long this site will remain intact is anyone's guess, but there's quite a bit of building planned for the area. I also had Pine Warblers at Scanlon Creek Conservation Area on Sun. I was in Orangeville on Sat. and had a Solitary Sandpiper at a rain catchment pond. It was flying at one point with a Common Grackle in hot pursuit. I've also seen grackles chasing Spotted Sandpipers. Is this predatory behaviour or territorial? The Bank Swallow colony is north of Bradford on Hwy. 11. Turn right onto the Ninth Line and then turn right again on Artesian Industrial Parkway. The colony is on your right. Peter Wukasch From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Apr 30 20:02:26 2007 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from to-mmp-02.tel-ott.com (to-mmp-02.tel-ott.com [142.46.202.40]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F436348E for <[email protected]>; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:02:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([72.1.220.99])0.01 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for [email protected]; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:02:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:02:07 -0400 From: Martin Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) Subject: [Ontbirds]Snow Geese - Glengarry County X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 00:02:26 -0000 Hi, At least a thousand Snow Geese this evening in South Glengarry township to the south along Cedar Grove Road (which runs west off 34 5 kms. north of Lancaster . . . Exit 814 of 401) . . . Martin Bowman
