On Friday, September 5th, 2008 this is the HNC Birding Report: PARASITIC JAEGER LONG-TAILED JAEGER WESTERN KINGBIRD
Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Red-necked Grebe Least Bittern Great Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night Heron Bald Eagle Virginia Rail Sora Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Lesser Yellowlegs Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Wilsons Snipe Red-necked Phalarope Great Horned Owl Common Nighthawk Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Traills Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Gray Catbird Cedar Waxwing Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Common Yellowthroat Wilsons Warbler Canada Warbler Baltimore Oriole The west end of Lake Ontario was fruitful for some birding in Hamilton this week. Winds yesterday were right to bring in both PARASITIC and LONG-TAILED JAEGERS along with a smattering of Sanderling along the beach. At the back of VanWagners Ponds earlier in the week and today, Green Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Tennessee, Wilsons, Magnolia Warbler and American Redstart were seen. Further east between Green Road and Millen Road in an open area south of the QEW, a WESTERN KINGBIRD was reported last Monday morning but a further search in the afternoon did not turn it up. Further east still at Fifty Point Conservation Area last weekend a number of passerine migrants were about including Least Flycatcher, Warbling and Red-eyed Vireo, Nashville, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Black-throated Blue and Black-and-white Warbler, American Redstart, Common Yellowthroat, Wilsons and Canada Warbler and a number of Baltimore Orioles. For shorebirds a single Red-necked Phalarope was seen dabbling in Windermere Basin on Tuesday and traveling up from here to Saltfleet a flooded field on 5th Road East between Powerline and Green Mountain Road, this field is still good for shorebirds with Lesser Yellowlegs, Pectoral and Least Sandpiper and 19 Wilsons Snipe. These birds pose some challenge as they are wandering about in the soybean crop. Another good area to watch is the storm water pond on Upper Middle between Burloak and Appleby Line in Burlington where Lesser Yellowlegs, Solitary, Least and Semipalmated Sandpiper were seen in the week. Olive-sided Flycatchers have moved through this week in more numbers than previously seen here in Hamilton. Two birds were seen on Twiss Road just above Derry Road last Saturday. A single bird was seen at Shoreacres on Tuesday and on Wednesday, four Olive-sided Flycatchers were seen and photographed at the Valley Inn. Other birds seen here include Wood Duck, Black-crowned Night Heron, Warbling and Red-eyed Vireo, Trail's and Least Flycatcher, Eastern Wood Pewee, American Redstart, Black and White, Canada, Blackpoll, Magnolia, Chestnut-sided and Wilson's Warbler, Ovenbird, Red-eyed Vireo, Trail's and Least Flycatcher and Eastern Wood Pewee. The lakeshore properties of Shoreacres and Shell Park have been very quiet otherwise this week with Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and a smattering of the above mentioned Warblers including a Louisiana Waterthrush. At Shoreacres a number of Red-necked Grebes are gathering on the lake, a dozen Green-winged Teal were flying around today and a couple of Spotted Sandpipers have taken a break from migration here. At Bronte Marsh the Least Bitterns were seen last weekend. Sora and Virginia Rail were also heard here too. In the odds and sods, Common Nighthawks continue to make their way through the area with one flying over Ivor Wynne during the Labour Day Classic last weekend. A Great Horned Owl was heard at Deer Run Court near Brantford. A Great Egret was seen at Wilkes Dam near Brantford and more Common Nighthawks passed over the city last Saturday. A Bald Eagle was seen flying over the fields near Alberton. Another Great Egret was reported at the Great Lakes Pond on Wednesday. Thats the news for this week. Things are bound to get busy again with another cold front and who knows what the remnants of Gustav may have for us. Please report your sightings! Good birding, Cheryl Edgecombe HNC Hotline 905-381-0329 _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdssetup.php ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdsguide.php
