AMERICAN BITTERN HUDSONIAN GODWIT SWAINSON'S THRUSH NASHVILLE WARBLER NORTHERN PARULA MAGNOLIA WARBLER AMERICAN REDSTART CAPE MAY WARBLER BLACK-THROATED GRAY PINE WARBLER PALM WARBLER OVENBIRD HOODED WARBLER
Snow Goose Harlequin Duck Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter King Eider Red-throated Loon Common Loon Red-shouldered Hawk Golden Eagle Sandhill Crane Dunlin Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Glaucous Gull Northern Shrike Common Raven Horned Lark Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Hermit Thrush Yellow-rumped Warbler Chipping Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Lapland Longspur White-winged Crossbill Common Redpoll Pine Siskin Evening Grosbeak It's been an interesting week here in the Hamilton Study Area. With the changing weather patterns, birds are moving around and flocking to areas that produce bugs and a bit of warmth. The top of our list now includes late dates for migrants as we move toward winter listing. Of course we hope that these birds find their way to their wintering grounds but it's interesting to see the incredible number of species of warbler we have sticking around. Let's start with the star of the show and the most rare for the week. The BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER located at LaSalle Park was last seen November 13th. This warbler provided a good show for those who were able to get down to see it. It could still be around moving locations to other areas for protection. The stragglers list this week includes a single HUDSONIAN GODWIT remaining at Valley Inn along with two Dunlin. Sedgewick Park in Oakville has become the place to go for late warblers. Over the past week, NASHVILLE, NORTHERN PARULA, CAPE MAY (2), PINE WARBLER, PALM WARBLER (Yellow) and today a HOODED WARBLER have been seen here all this week. Down the road to the west, at Bronte Bluffs a very late MAGNOLIA, NORTHERN PARULA and another or possibly same YELLOW PALM WARBLER were seen today. Last Sunday and Monday an AMERICAN REDSTART was a good one added to the list. A late SWAINSON'S THRUSH is also present at Sedgewick along with a good number of Ruby-crowned Kinglets with up to 20 seen earlier in the week. Other notable late birds are an OVENBIRD coming to a feeder in Port Credit and NASHVILLE and PALM at South Shell Park. Another Palm was seen at Chancery Promenade in Mississauga. All nooks and crannies should be checked a Hermit Warbler in Hunstville is a mind blower but why not here? Lastly in the non-songbird department a late AMERICAN BITTERN was flushed between Bury Court and Abbott Court off Garden Ave in Brantford. A trip around the end of the lake today yielded all three species of Scoter, a King Eider at Shell Park and another at Fifty Point. Fifty Point has been host to a large feeding frenzy of gulls this week with Little, Bonaparte's Iceland, Lesser Black-backed and Glaucous Gull joining the hundreds of Ring-bills and Herring Gulls. Red-throated and Common Loon were also seen from this vantage. Flybys were a Lapland Longspur and White-winged Crossbills. In the odds and sods this week, seven Snow Geese were seen in a flock of Canadas on Bell School line earlier in the week. A female Harlequin Duck remains around Bronte Beach area. Sandhill Cranes are on the move with a large flock being seen Thursday over Dundas. A Golden Eagle was seen over the Dundas Valley Conservation Area on Tuesday. Horned Larks have returned to Fallsview Road, Snow Buntings and Lapland Longspurs are sure to follow. Other birds seen at Sedgewick Park in Oakville include two Common Ravens, Brown Creeper, Winter Wren, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Hermit Thrush, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Chipping and White-throated Sparrow. Northern Shrikes were seen at Ohswekan, on 10th Road East in Saltfleet and in Glen Morris this week. Pine Siskins are still moving through. A good sighting for this time of year was a Red-shouldered Hawk in North Halton and an Evening Grosbeak was also a feeder guest up there. Evening Grosbeaks were also reported at feeders in Bronte Provincial Park, Dundas and in Flamborough this week. Common Redpolls are now on the move so keep your feeders stocked. Report your unusual sightings here and if you still have a hummingbird, let someone know! GO TICATS! Cheryl Edgecombe HNC. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca 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 Visit the OFO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists
