GLOSSY IBIS WILLET SABINE'S GULL PARASITIC JAEGER LONG-TAILED JAEGER SNOWY OWL
Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Green-winged Teal Great Egret Black-crowned Night-Heron Osprey Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-billed DOwitcher Lesser Black-backed Gull Common Tern Common Nighthawk Ruby-throated Hummingbird Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-bellied FLycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Virdo Purple Martin Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Veery Swainson's Thrush Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler White-throated Sparrow It's been another great week here in the HSA with the highlights being again at the west end of the lake. Last Friday was a banner day here with the highlight being an adult LONG-TAILED JAEGER which made its presence known down shore near Green Road. Information was posted and a group of us were able to locate the bird (due to gulls rising out of the water) and follow it as it travelled west and near the viewing platform not far off shore near Lakeland Tower. It was breath taking. The same day a PARASITIC JAEGER was seen at a distance harassing gulls and driving one straight to the water. In addition, birders were treated with mostly distant but a few closer views of at least five SABINE'S GULLS out on the lake. Other highlights were Lesser Black-backed Gull and Common Terns. Later in the week, three SABINE'S GULLS were seen including one adult sitting on the water from the famous balcony at a condo on Green Road. Not to be dismissed an excellent find was an adult GLOSSY IBIS on Wednesday at Windermere Basin. The bird was only seen in the morning but viewing conditions are challenging here with many areas not seen due to high vegetation and distance. A check later in the afternoon yielded a WILLET and probably the same bird was relocated yesterday at Tollgate Pond. A summering SNOWY OWL continues to be seen at Pier 25 South with the bird reported on a small brown building near the RV Centre this morning. Shorebird habitat is still improving in the area with areas of North Island (off Eastport Drive near Burlington), Tollgate Pond (over the lift bridge toward Niagara, just past the stop sign), Windermere Basin and Red Hill Stormwater Pond being the key areas to find shorebirds. In these areas this week, Black-bellied, American Golden and Semipalmated Plover, Spotted Sandpiper, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Ruddy Turnstone (Tollgate), Sanderling (Tollgate), Semipalmated, Least, Baird's(Tollgate) and Stilt Sandpiper (Windermere) and Short-billed Dowitcher were noted. Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Blue-winged and Green-winged Teal, Great Egret, Black-crowned Night-Heron and Osprey were also birds seen here. The 407 Stormwater Pond offered up Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Semipalmated, Least and Baird's Sandpiper and Semipalmated Plover. On the sod farms an American Golden Plover was seen on Greens Road in the field where the Buff-breasted was seen a week and a half ago. At Haldibrook Road west of Hwy 6, a Black-bellied Plover was seen in the field and a Solitary Sandpiper was tucked into a small pond there. The woodlots have been very active this week. At Fifty Point Conservation Area and Forty Mile Creek, Yellow-bellied FLycatcher, Warbling and Red-eyed Vireo, Purple Martin, Bank, Cliff and Barn Swallow, Veery, Swainson's Thrush, Tennessee, Nashville Warbler, Northern Parula, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Black-throated Blue, Blackburnian, Bay-breasted, Blackpoll, Black-and-White Warbler, American Redstart, Northern Waterthrush, Common Yellowthroat, Wilson's and Canada Warbler. An early White-throated Sparrow was an unexpected migrant. At other woodlots, Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Shoreacres), Great Crested Flycatcher (Woodland Cemetery), Ovenbird (Sherwood Forest Park) were highlights in addition to the warbler migrants mentioned above. In the odds and sods, a spectacular sight this week was up to 60 Common Nighthawks migrating over University Plaza in Dundas, nice to see numbers of this species when they are deemed to be in decline. Common Nighthawks were also reported out near Brantford, along the 403 Corridor and in East Burlington. In Dundas an Olive-sided Flycatcher was a yard guest, this species has been seen in several locations on fall migration this year. This cold front moving through tonight will be key to bringing birds in for the weekend. Get out to your local patches and enjoy migration. Report your sightings here! Good Birding Cheryl Edgecombe HNC --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide
