Well much to everone's surprise smaller number of Whimbrels continue to
move over CSSP this morning.
None was seen by me from 6:00 to 7:00 but I saw a few later in the
morning. Jerry Lewchysknyk recorded the most birds: 'before 10:00am' =
225; Joan Winearls & Barbara Katoff: groups of 18, 30 & 30 around 8:00 am;
Bruce Wilkinson: 2; Imre ? and Wayne Renaud: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:55 e to w;
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w. Preliminary total = 327.
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Another flock of 150 seen by Linda Wells, Bob Cummings & Margaret Bain
flying westward at 7.45am on the 26th was missed in the total I submitted
yesterday ... bringing yesterday's total to 2066.
This brings the total Whimbrels recorded along the Lake Ontario
waterfront from Etobicoke's parks: CSSP (mostly) & Marie Curtis Park and
Mississauga's Saddington [EMAIL PROTECTED] River mouth to 9029.
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Joan Winearls & Barbara Katoff topped off the afternoon with a female
Connecticut Warbler in the overgrown mix of deciduous and evergreen trees
east a cross the sports field from the creek.
Again thanks for all those, starting with Jean Iron, who went the extra
mile in providing Whimbrel records in a much more complete picture of this
spectacular and memorable ending to the southern Ontario spring migration.
My condolances go to the few who missed seeing one!
Directions:
Kipling runs directly into Colonel Sam Smith Park and adjacent Humber
College Lakeshore campus, located west of Islington and east of Brown's Line
south of the Q.E.W.
Wayne Renaud
905.274.7103 or 905.278.5813
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Blue phase Snow Goose in the 3rd cell at Exeter lagoons this evening, very
much in the company of a Canada Goose. These two were swimming together,
flew together and gave every appearance of being paired up. They eventually
flew off to the north in the company of other Canada's. In this 3rd cell
were also, Pintails and quite a few pairs of Wood Ducks. In the 1st cell as
you walk in, the Red Necked Grebe continued to be found this evening.
Directions: Exeter is 30 miles north of London, and the lagoons are a mile
and a quarter to the west off 83 highway. Turn south off 83 onto Airport
Line and continue to the second gate on the left.
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Durham Big Day scores 170
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Hi all,
Yesterday (26 May) Kim Baker, Brian Henshaw, Jay Vandergaast and myself
entertained ourselves with a big day entirely within Durham county. The
weather was remarkably cooperative and we ended up with a very respectable
170 species. The highlight was a Willet at Darlington beach which flew in
high from the south, plummeted down to the marsh, stayed for about five
minutes and then flew off to the west.
We did reasonably well with the regular breeding birds, very poorly with
migrant passerines, but had great success with shorebirds and lingering
ducks. This was our best outing for many years. We all felt that with a
better "wave day" the long-standing Durham record of 182 could have been
ours for the taking. Oh well - there's always next year...
Apologies for this somewhat tardy post.
Dave Beadle
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