| SABINE'S GULL PARASITIC JAEGER LONG-TAILED JAEGER American Wigeon Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal White-winged Scoter Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Great Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Merlin Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Spotted Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Bonaparte's Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Great Black-backed Gull Common Tern Common Nighthawk Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Least FLycatcher Red-eyed Vireo Red-breasted Nuthatch Swainson's Thrush Ovenbird Black-and-white Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Connecticut Warbler Magnolia Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Dark-eyed Junco Scarlet Tanager Rose-breasted Grosbeak Well it's the beginning of high season in the Hamilton Study Area. This week brought in the first big haul of specialties at the west end of Lake Ontario and birders were not disappointed. Earlier in the week a LONG-TAILED JAEGER started the show when an adult w/o streamers flew past Green Road in Stoney Creek, an adult with full streamers and a juvenile were seen last Friday. Today, two adults and one juvenile were seen on strong east winds from the Lakeland Tower. Parasitic Jaegers were also passing through today. At one point today 5 adult Parasitic and one adult Long-tailed Jaeger were kettling together in the same scope view, truly spectacular. For those with the horse shoes, yesterday four adult SABINE'S GULLS made an appearance mid-afternoon and stayed for a couple of hours on the water although at non-photographable distance. Expectations were high today for juvenile SABINE'S GULLS but no dice. Other birds seen at the beach this week include American Wigeon, Northern Pintail, Green-winged Teal, White-winged Scoter, Common Loon, Merlin, Sanderling, Bonaparte's Gull, Lesser Black-backed and Great Backed Gull and a surprising number of Common Terns. Windermere Basin continues to be the hub for shorebirds and other this week. Highlights include, Pied-billed Grebe, Great Egret, Green Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Semipalmated Plover, Spotted Sandpiper, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Red Knot (continuing 2 juveniles), Least and Stilt Sandpiper(up to 6 juv.) along with up to 3 Short-billed Dowitchers. Nearby at Tollgate Pond, up to 5 Baird's Sandpiper and some Sanderling were seen in the week. To round out shorebirds a single Black-bellied Plover was seen on the sod farms out in Haldibrook and a Ruddy Turnstone has been frequenting the end of the Suncor Pier in Bronte. The woodlots and back yards have been active this week. A highlight was a Connecticut Warbler seen at a yard near 5th Concession West and Middletown Road in Flamborough. At Shoreacres this week, Red-eyed Vireo, Black-and-white, Bay-breasted, Blackburnian, Chestnut Sided, Wilson's and Canada Warbler were highlights. For this big yard lister in south Burlington, Common Nighthawk, Yellow-bellied and Least Flycatcher, Red-eyed Vireo, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Nashville, Magnolia, Bay-breasted, Blackpoll and Black-throated Green Warbler were highlights today. Berry Tract and along the escarpment at Rock Chapel, Ovenbird, Swainson's and a very early Hermit Thrush were seen. At Joe Sam's Park, a moulting Scarlet Tanager and Rose-breasted Grosbeak added to the list of migrants. In the odds and sods this week, Horned and Red-necked Grebes were seen from Burloak Park in Oakville. Common Nighthawks were moving through in large numbers this week with two dozen plus being seen over Dundas and Aldershot and over 50 seen near Bronte. Perhaps the biggest surprise was the appearance of two Dark-eyed Junco's just north of Burlington at a feeder. Perhaps we should stock up now for an early winter. That's the news for this week. On this long weekend, get out to the local patch and see what's around. Let me know what you see! Good birding, Cheryl Edgecombe HNC Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network.
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