On Friday August 27, 2010, this is the HNC Birding Report: PARASITIC JAEGER LONG-TAILED JAEGER
Green Winged Teal White-winged Scoter Red-throated Loon Common Loon Osprey Peregrine Falcon Semipalmated Plover Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Lesser Yellowlegs Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Red-necked Phalarope Bonaparte's Gull Black Tern Common Tern Common Nighthawk Red-headed Woodpecker Eastern Wood Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Baltimore Oriole It's been a very active week here in the Hamilton Study Area with the start of VanWagner's Beach season in earnest last weekend. Yearly the west end of Lake Ontario is key for birders to chalk up their lists with birds seen here. Both LONG-TAILED and PARASITIC JAEGERS made their appearance on east winds last weekend and early in the week. Other birds seen here were Green-winged Teal, White-winged Scoter, Red-throated and Common Loon, Osprey, Peregrine Falcon, Semipalmated Plover, Sanderling , quite a few Red-necked Phalaropes (difficult to see in choppy waters!), Black and Common Terns. This is just the beginning of a couple of months of excellent birding here in the right conditions. Another good place just around the corner was Red Hill Stormwater Pond where last Friday, Baird's, Semipalmated and Least Sandpiper, Short-billed Dowitcher, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs were seen. At the Windermere Basin located off Eastport Drive, Lesser Yellowlegs, Spotted, Semipalmated and Least Sandpipers were present on the floating algae near the booms. A partially leucistic Semipalmated Sandpiper gave some shorebird enthusiasts a good study last weekend. On North Island located off Eastport Drive on the bay, Semipalmated Plover, Ruddy Turnstone, Lesser Yellowlegs, Least and Semipalmated Sandpiper were birds seen crawling among the Caspian Terns sitting here. It is always best to view this location with a scope as the shorebirds seem to do an excellent job of hiding in and amongst the Terns. The mushroom farm up on Guelph Line north of Derry Road was a good spot for Solitary, Least and Semipalmated Sandpiper and Lesser Yellowlegs. Finally to wrap up shorebirds in a nice way, our annual visit of Buff-breasted Sandpipers started at Highway 6 and Unity Road last Saturday where three individuals were seen. Earlier in the week Baird's Sandpipers were present on a sod farm in this area. Passerines were active this week with the northwest winds giving them incentive to move south. Woodland Cemetery seemed to be a good place to view migrants with Eastern Wood Pewee, Yellow-bellied, Least, Great Crested Flycatcher, Warbling, Philadelphia, Red-eyed Vireo, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Tennessee, Nashville, Northern Parula, Yellow, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Black-throated Green, Blackburnian, Palm (second earliest fall record), Bay-breasted, Blackpoll, Black-and-white Warbler, American Redstart, Wilson's Warbler and Baltimore Oriole. At Waterdown Wetlands, also known as Joe Sam's Park in Waterdown, Red-eyed and Philadelphia Vireo, Tennessee, Chestnut-sided, Black-throated Green, Magnolia, Bay-breasted, Black-and-white and Canada Warbler were all spotted in the week. Common Nighthawks continue to be reported on migration through the Oakville, Burlington and Hamilton Area. From last week, a Red-headed Woodpecker was spotted on Millborough Town Line up in the Flamborough/Halton area. This coming few weeks will be key for warbler and flycatcher migration. Be sure to get out there and scour, you never know what will turn up at this time of the year. Please report your sightings! Good Birding, Cheryl Edgecombe 905-381-0329 HNC Hotline _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
