Good morning again . Yesterday Naish McHugh picked me up in Toronto and we motored on down to the Long Point area and on the way we stopped at Kitchen Road just south of Simcoe where we found Song, Vesper, Field, Chipping, Savannah and Grasshopper Sparrows along with E. Meadowlarks and Bobolinks. We next stopped off to see the LARK SPARROWS . We watched the Lark Sparrows for awhile where we met Bob Noble who birded with us for the morning before he had to leave to attend to business. We headed off and again dipped on the Prairie Warbler but while Bob was with us we did find Both Cuckoos, 2 Blue-winged Warblers as well as Mourning, Pine, Yellow-rumped, and Hooded Warblers. A surprise find was a Clay-colored Sparrow and we also heard singing and calling Towhees, Field Sparrows, Scarlet Tanagers, Indigo Buntings, Great-crested Flycatchers and many Ovenbirds and Chipping Sparrows.
After Bob left us we continued on to the next area in our plan and we added 2 Screech Owls, 3 Pileated Woodpeckers, 3 Red-bellied Woodpeckers, 1 Y-B. Sapsucker and a Hairy Woodpecker, many Great-crested Flycatchers, Red-eyed Vireos, 3 E. Wood Pewees, 3 Yellow-throated Vireos, 9 Wood Thrushes (including an active nest), singing Veerys, 19 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, 7 Scarlet Tanagers, and in the Warbler world we found many Ovenbirds, 9 Hooded, 2 Pine, 3 Black-throated Green, 1 Mourning, and 2 Louisiana Waterthrush. A surprise after Tuesdays 8 Cerulean Warblers is that we never even heard a chip from any of them in the very same area and the Prothonotary Warbler was not co-operative either but I am not complaining. It was another great day to be out and we only had a sprinkling of rain in the afternoon that barely made it through the canopy. We may have only had 78 species but what we lacked in quantity we made up for in quality as far as we were concerned. DIRECTIONS:- LONG POINT AREA - CENTERED ON PORT ROWAN Port Rowan is southwest of Hamilton, to reach it you can drive south on Hwy 6 from Hamilton, passing through Hagersville and turning right, west in Jarvis onto Hwy 3, drive to Simcoe and turn left, south on Hwy 24 and follow this to Hwy 59, ( it curves to the west south of Simcoe). The woodlots,fields, marshes etc. are north, south, east and west of the town. LARK SPARROWS These Sparrows are at Walsingham East Quarter Line Road and Hwy 24, one concession west of Forestry Farm Road or one concession west of Hwy 59. The birds were right at the northwest corner of the intersection and about 500 yards north of Hwy 24. Norm Murr Richmond Hill, ON "Sils mordent, mords les" From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jun 1 10:32:42 2007 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from mh1.kwic.com (mh1.kwic.com [205.150.58.4]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DAE163481 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 10:32:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bscdata.bsc-eoc.org (adsl-216-94-27-81.kwic.com [216.94.27.81]) by mh1.kwic.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l51EWfLL034518 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 10:32:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 10:33:12 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Acadian Flycatcher and Hooded Warbler Breeding Records Wanted Thread-Index: AcekWchCGkG6ou28Truk4pioHSy5lA=From: "Audrey Heagy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds] Acadian Flycatcher and Hooded Warbler Breeding Records Wanted X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:32:42 -0000 Bird Studies Canada, in conjunction with the Hooded Warbler/Acadian Flycatcher Recovery Team, is coordinating a survey of Hooded Warblers and Acadian Flycatchers in Ontario again this year. The last province-wide Hooded Warbler/Acadian Flycatcher blitz took place in 2002, so we are very interested to see what has happened to the populations of these Species at Risk over the last five years. We have lined up several people to cover the traditional sites for these species in southwestern Ontario. However, the recent Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas project turned up many new sites, particularly for Hooded Warblers, including some sites outside of the Carolinian region. We are looking for volunteers to check on additional sites, and would also like to compile incidental reports from birders and biologists doing field work in southern Ontario. We are particularly hoping that ex-Atlassers who reported Hooded Warblers or Acadian Flycatchers during the 2001-05 atlas field work will check to see if birds are present at these sites in 2007. If you encounter either of these species while birding in June or July, please let us know. Reports of these species (with date, location, and breeding evidence information) should be sent to Audrey Heagy, [EMAIL PROTECTED] or by calling 1-888-448-2473 x 243. If you check a former site and don't find a bird this year we are also interested in that information. The results of this survey will be used to update population estimates and status reports for these species, and to promote the conservation and stewardship of Carolinian forest habitat. Thanks in advance for your help. Audrey Heagy Audrey Heagy Bird Conservation Planning Biologist Bird Studies Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-888-4482473 x 243 1-519-586-3531 x 243 Box 160, Port Rowan, ON N0E 1M0 115 Front St, Port Rowan, ON From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jun 1 12:24:31 2007 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp-02.primus.ca (mail5.primus.ca [216.254.141.172]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73BA06349E for <[email protected]>; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 12:24:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ottawa-hs-206-191-56-88.d-ip.magma.ca ([206.191.56.88] helo=pcpringle.magma.ca) by smtp-02.primus.ca with esmtpa (Exim 4.50) id 1Hu9vQ-0003wc-8I; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:24:28 -0400 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:24:31 -0400 To: [email protected] From: Gordon Pringle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Authenticated: parula - ottawa-hs-206-191-56-88.d-ip.magma.ca (pcpringle.magma.ca) [206.191.56.88] Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Ontbirds]Ottawa/Gatineau 31May07... Prothonotary Warbler, Yellow Rail, Arctic Tern Yellow-billed Cuckoo X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:24:32 -0000 - RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 31 May 2007 * ONOT0705.31 - Birds mentioned Snow Goose Wild Turkey Great Egret YELLOW RAIL Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Greater Yellowlegs Willet Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Dunlin Short-billed Dowitcher Red-necked Phalarope Bonaparte's Gull Common Tern ARCTIC TERN YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO Yellow-throated Vireo Cape May Warbler PROTHONOTARY WARBLER Indigo Bunting - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 31 May 2007 number: 613-860-9000 for the status line : press 2 for rare bird alerts: press 1 to report a sighting: press # coverage: Ottawa/Gatineau (Can. Nat. Capital Reg.), E.Ont., W.Que. compiler & transcriber: Chris Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet: Gordon Pringle [EMAIL PROTECTED] THE OFNC BIRD STATUS LINE @ 6:30 pm, THURSDAY MAY 31, 2007 This is Chris Lewis reporting. Most of the reports that came in this week were of rather exceptional birds for our area. A Willet discovered at the Alfred sewage lagoons on the 25th was still present on the 26th. Two ARCTIC TERNS turned up on the Ottawa River and spent the morning of the 27th fishing below the Deschenes rapids, a Great Egret was seen again at the storm water management ponds on the east side of River Rd. south of Leitrim Rd. on the 28th, and the star of the show was a singing male PROTHONOTARY WARBLER 1st reported on the 28th and still present until at least the morning of the 30th. This bird has been very vocal and very active along Patricia Ave., and the small wooded area on the west side of Patricia north of Clearview Ave. east of Island Park Dr. A report from the railroad tracks in the Richmond Fen indicated that YELLOW RAILS are still in this area - one was heard calling several times on the night of May 21st. In other reports, a very late Snow Goose continues to linger at the Alfred sewage lagoons as of the 28th, and shorebirds noted here that day included a late Greater Yellowlegs, Semipalmated Sandpiper, White-rumped Sandpiper, Dunlin, a Short-billed Dowitcher and a female Red-necked Phalarope. At the St-Isidore lagoons on the 28th there was a Black-bellied Plover, both Semipalmated and Least Sandpiper and Dunlin. The Casselman sewage lagoons had a few Semipalmated Sandpipers on the 29th but not much else. A half-dozen Wild Turkeys were seen along Carling Ave. near the Smithfield horse ranch on the 31st. From the 26th to the 27th the number of Bonaparte's Gulls at the Deschenes rapids doubled from 15 to 31, and Common Terns have also arrived back, with 3 seen at Shirley's Bay on the 26th and 2 feeding separately from the ARCTIC TERNS at the Deschenes rapids the following day. Other noteworthy birds were a YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO mentioned again from the Carp Hills along the Thomas Dolan Parkway on the 27th, a Yellow-throated Vireo along Old Carp Rd. west of Huntmar Rd. back on the 21st and another report of this species near the Huntmar railroad tracks on the 27th. Several warbler species are still being reported from a variety of locations including Cape May along 9 Mile Rd. in the Larose Forest, and other expected breeders such as Indigo Bunting are now back on territory in their typical breeding habitats as of last weekend. Thank you - Good Birding…and let's hope the Ottawa Senators do some serious "Duck" hunting this weekend! - End transcript
