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Subject: [Ontbirds]Kingston area birds to March 21, 2008
From: "Peter and Jane Good" <goodcompany(AT)sympatico.ca>
Date: 21 Mar 2008 7:30am
It has been a week of spring migration locally despite the wintry appearance
of the landscape. Flocks of Am. Robins and Red-winged Blackbirds are
everywhere and most observers have seen at least a few Common Grackles.
There were singleton Brown-headed Cowbirds at Glenburnie on the 14th and at
Elginburg on the 17th. An Eastern Meadowlark was found near the Sydenham
dump on Wednesday. Several Killdeer arrived; at Elginburg on the 14th, on
Amherst and Wolfe on the 15th and in the city on the 17th. A Great Blue
Heron flew along the 401 at Hwy 38 last Friday and two more were in Elevator
Bay on Saturday. Other harbingers of spring included 2 Turkey Vultures last
Sunday and a Song Sparrow on Wednesday.
Waterfowl numbers continue to build. The south shore of Amherst had an
excellent variety last weekend with 15 species. Included amongst the 100's
of Common Goldeneye and Greater Scaup were 30 Ring-necked Ducks, 12 Hooded
Mergansers, 6 Redheads, 3 Wood Ducks, 2 Lesser Scaup, 2 Green-winged Teal
and a Canvasback. There was also a Pied-billed Grebe at Millhaven. Besides
the ubiquitous Mallards and Canada Geese, Hooded Mergansers have moved
inland finding those few spots of open water; there were 2 at the Cataraqui
Conservation Area on Sunday and another at Elginburg on Wednesday.
There are still lots of Common Redpolls visiting feeders and both islands
reported many Rough-legged Hawks. Other indications that winter is still
with us were 8 Bohemian Waxwings and a dozen Evening Grosbeaks at Bedford
Mills and 4 Snowy Owls on Wolfe last Saturday. Other owl sightings were the
two most unusual for the week. The remains of a N. Saw-whet Owl were found
near Enterprise on Sunday and a Great Grey Owl was just west of Elginburg on
Wednesday.
Cheers,
Peter Good
Kingston Field Naturalists
613 378-6605
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Subject: [Ontbirds] Hamilton Naturalists Club Birding Report -
Friday- March 21st, 2008
From: "Cheryl Edgecombe" <cheryle29(AT)cogeco.ca>
Date: 21 Mar 2008 8:55am
On Friday March 21st, 2009 this is the HNC Birding Report:
CALIFORNIA GULL
THAYER'S GULL
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL
AMERICAN WOODCOCK
BOHEMIAN WAXWING
EVENING GROSBEAK
Tundra Swan
Canvasback
Redhead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-throated Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Coopers Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Golden Eagle
Peregrine Falcon
Killdeer
Glaucous Gull
Great Black Backed Gull
Great Horned Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Northern Shrike
Horned Lark
Eastern Bluebird
Cedar Waxwing
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Pine Grosbeak
Common Redpoll
Pine Siskin
In theory it should be spring here in the HSA but you wouldn't know it by
the temperatures. Despite this, some hardy migrants are showing up anyway
defying frozen grounds and covered food. This week the list of new migrants
included our first AMERICAN WOODCOCK flushed from the side of the road in
North Halton and the first EASTERN PHOEBE was recorded at Beamer
Conservation Area. Other migrants include the traditional first harbingers
of spring Killdeer, Red-winged Blackbirds, Common Grackles and Brown-headed
Cowbirds reported in growing flocks.
The Niagara Peninsula Hawkwatch brought in its own cavalry of migrating
hawks and eagles including a number of Bald Eagles, another adult Golden
Eagle, Red-tailed Hawks in numbers, Red-shouldered, Rough Legged, Coopers
and Sharp-shinned Hawks, Northern Goshawk and a Peregrine Falcon. Today is
the Niagara Peninsula Hawkwatch Open House at Beamer Conservation Area from
10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Its a nice day, come and check out the action!
Interestingly this week we have seen the return of some of the winter birds
to the area. Small flocks of Common Redpolls are still being seen at
feeders. A small group of 4 Pine Grosbeaks were seen with about 40 Cedar
Waxwings across from the Olympic Arena yesterday. BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were
reported in small numbers at two locations in Dundas this past week.
Yesterday, a large flock of Cedar Waxwings with at least 6 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS
was seen up on Cedar Springs Road and Sideroad 2 where a couple days early
two EVENING GROSBEAKS were seen. To round out winter finches, Pine Siskins
seem to be making their return north with reports from feeders in Brantford
and Dundas.
Another good hotspot if you like smelly compost heaps is the large compost
area located along Hwy 5 just east of Waterdown Garden Supplies. Yesterday
about 5000 gulls were present here in the compost facility and the fields
surrounding. If one is patient, an adult CALIFORNIA GULL was refound
yesterday. THAYER'S GULL, LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, Glaucous, Iceland and
Great Black-backed Gull were other species mixed in amongst the Herring and
Ring-billed Gulls. A word of caution, Highway 5 is an extremely busy road
and there is no entry into the compost facility on weekends. Proper safety
gear must be worn from the office which is open on weekdays. Please respect
the owners hospitality of letting birders in with these conditions.
This was also a good place for hawks and vultures as Red-tailed,
Rough-legged Hawk and Turkey Vultures were seen there as well.
At the Desjardins Canal this week Horned Grebe, Pied-billed Grebe,
Canvasback, Redhead, Hooded Merganser, American Coot and a Belted Kingfisher
were seen.
Down at LaSalle Marina, Tundra Swan, American Wigeon, Red-throated Loon,
Horned Grebe, Turkey Vulture, Bald Eagles (still present on disappearing
ice), Iceland Gull and Glaucous Gulls were reported in the week.
At the Burlington Ship Canal three Red-throated Loons, a Horned Grebe on the
water and seven more Bald Eagles were seen from here on the ice on the bay.
A pair of Peregrine Falcons are displaying here again, well worth watching
their aerial acrobatics.
In Brantford, opening waters at the Wilkes Dam produced Common Goldeneye,
Common Mergansers and two uncommon species for this area Horned and
Red-necked Grebes.
In the odds and sods a Pileated Woodpecker was spotted Monday on Victoria
Road and Wellington, Eastern Bluebirds were seen checking out nesting sites
in Brantford, another was seen near the Olympic Arena. A Northern Shrike
was seen in Flamborough.
A Northern Goshawk was seen over Dundas and a pair of Great Horned Owls can
be heard calling in the west side of the arboretum, York Road entrance.
Our Peregrine Falcons are back at the Sheraton and checking out the nest
site. They can be viewed on the net by entering
http://falcons.hamiltonnature.org/. Start now and watch what happens in the
next two weeks!
Thanks to Brandon for awesome coverage of the hotline for two weeks! Its
going to get busy this week as temperatures are supposed to rise through the
week. Please report your sightings and keep me posted of spring migrants, I
need hope.
Have a great week!
Cheryl Edgecombe
HNC Hotline
905-381-0329
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Bohemian Waxwings - Ajax
From: "Geoff - Birds" <avocet(AT)rogers.com>
Date: 21 Mar 2008 11:18am
About 75 Bohemian and 7 Cedar Waxwings are sitting in a maple outside my den
window as we speak. Nice to see against the bright March sun!
Geoff Carpentier
Ajax
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Pine Grosbeaks
From: "David Morin" <foxheadraven(AT)gmail.com>
Date: 21 Mar 2008 9:34am
Just when I thought spring migrants and warm weather were on their way, we
end up with a windchill of -21 degrees celsius. Guess those Turkey Vultures
will take their time getting to Ottawa.
On our trip this morning we saw all of the spring migrants expected for the
area, minus the Great Blue Heron, though we did look. We also saw two Pine
Grosbeaks on Old Carp Road, which we thought was notable for the end of
March.
David Morin
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Turkey Vulture at Arnprior
From: Mike B <goshawktalons(AT)yahoo.ca>
Date: 21 Mar 2008 1:34pm
This morning while driving around looking for spring migrants I saw one TUVU as
I came into Arnprior off the 417 heading west. After going through Arnprior I
headed south to Pakenham observations made included:
Horned lark 25-30
American crow 80+
Snow bunting 15+
Common raven 4
Redwing blackbird 40+
eastern chipmunk 1
Mike Blom
Clayton, Ontario
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Birding Rattray Marsh on the 1st day of spring
From: Wayne Renaud <wayne(AT)renaudwebber.com>
Date: 21 Mar 2008 4:43pm
It was fairly obvious today and that spring migrants continue to trickle
in.
At least a dozen Red-winged Blackbirds were singing on territory. There
were two Killdeers at the north end of a narrow band of mud and weeds in the
middle of the marsh (best seen the 'knoll' boardwalk. There were 4 American
Woodcocks feeding exposed areas of mud and moss in the floodplain of
Sheridan Creek about 100 yds from the second bridge upstream on Sheridan
Creek and the north trail street exit to Silverbirch Trail (the brick pump
house in the corner). Unfortunately the woodcocks were flushed by two big
dogs off their leashes ... and there were lot of people today that clearly
did not read the signs or chose to ignore the rule about dogs on leashed.
The Tufted Titmouse was singing in the spruce trees near where I last saw
it ... it the large house with huge block retaining wall that fronts onto
Nautalix; they have huge bird feeder in the back yard. This informal trail
runs close to north end of 'Knoll' trail and close to the last bridge
downstream over Sheridan Creek.
Good numbers of Dark-eyed Juncos, Song Sparrows and American Tree
Sparrows and one each of Carolina Wren and White-throated Sparrow. A male
Pileated Woodpecker spent close to hour working in Paper Birch about 40 feet
from the boardwalk nearest the newly enlarge marsh tower. About 50 people
had the opportunity to see the bird chipping away the tree and pulling out
grubs from the rotten wood ... and understand why it's important to
preserve native habit like Rattray Marsh.
Directions:
Go south down to the end Bexhill which runs south of Lakeshore about 5 long
blocks east Erin Mills Parkway; park at the metal gate The marsh and knoll
trail start at the bottom of hill from the parking area. This gets you
into, more or less, the middle of main area of the marsh. Find a street map
to orient yourself and/or follow the the trail map inside the park.
Wayne Renaud
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Port Burwell Area Birding
From: Joe Stephenson <joestephenson11(AT)mac.com>
Date: 21 Mar 2008 7:36pm
All,
Today was a good day at Lake Erie in Port Burwell. Special
observations were:
Killdeer
Pileated Woodpecker
Brown Creeper
White Breasted Nuthatches
Downy Woodpeckers
Red Wing Blackbirds
Tundra Swans by the 100's
Carolina Wren
Tufted Titmice
Coopers Hawks (making a nest)
Regards,
Joe Stephenson
Port Burwell
Directions
Port Burwell is at the southern end of Hwy 19, south of Tillsonburg
The Provincial Park is an excellent place to see many of he above, as
is the harbour area and the lakeshore road areas.
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Turkey Vultures
From: bruce <brucep(AT)mnsi.net>
Date: 21 Mar 2008 4:15pm
The Turkey Vultures (28 at present) have returned for the 6th year in a
row to the pine roost behind the B & B
1000+ tundra swans on the Onion fields south of 20
GBH now and in the Harbor all winter
Killdeer all over the county and Snow Bunting numbers are dropping fast.
Jays, Grackles, Male RWBB starting to set up territories
It is spring, the warblers wont be far behind
Good Birding
Bea and Bruce
B & B's Bed and Breakfast
216 Erie St. South
Wheatley (Around the corner from Pt Pelee) Ontario
N0P2P0
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Bohemian Waxwings, Scarborough
From: Mark Smith <scarbropengyou(AT)yahoo.ca>
Date: 21 Mar 2008 4:23pm
At about 4:00 P.M. this afternoon, I was lucky enough to encounter a number of
Bohemian Waxwings near my home in the Brimley and McNicoll area of Scarborough.
About 50 were in a flock that was flying over, while four individuals were
perched in my neighbour's tree, affording me an excellent look at them.
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Amherst Island: Barred & L.E. Owls, waterfowl
From: "Bruce Di Labio" <bruce.dilabio(AT)sympatico.ca>
Date: 21 Mar 2008 4:18pm
Hi Ontbirders
Spent the morning birding Amherst Island with my son Ben. There was lots
of activity along the south shore with impressive numbers of waterfowl
including 4500+ Greater Scaup, 2600 Common Goldeneye and 1400 Long-tailed
Ducks. We also observed small numbers of Ring-necked Duck, Bufflehead,
Redhead, Red-breasted Merganser, and Lesser Scaup. In the "Owls Woods" we
located 2 Barred and 1 Long-eared Owl. The big surprise was an Amercian
Woodcock in a small patch of open grass which Ben almost stepped on! It flew
a few feet and landed on another small patch of grass under a spruce tree.
Hawk sightings included, 12 Rough-legged and 3 Red-tailed Hawk, with most
either at the east end (KFN property) or just south of Stella. On our drive
down yesterday, we had a Northern Saw-whet Owl road kill, along Hwy. 401
near exit 672 and on Tuesday (return from Presqu'ile) I had 2 Barred Owl
road kills, 1 near exit 579 and another near exit 593. The road into the Owl
Woods is still covered with snow and we walked in from the south shore road.
If we have any mild weather I'd recommend water proof foot wear for walking
around the woods.
good birding, Bruce & Ben
Directions: Amherst Island: Located 18 km. west of Kingston. Exit off
Hwy.401 at exit 593 (County Rd. 4, Camden East) and drive south to the very
end
(Millhaven).
Turn right on Hwy. 33 and drive 100 metres until you see the sign for the
Amherst Island ferry. The ferry (20 minute trip) leaves the mainland on the
half hour and leaves the island on the hour. Cost is now $8.00 Canadian
round trip. There are no gas stations on the island. There are restrooms on
the ferry, and at the island ferry dock. The East End K.F.N. property
is at the easternmost part of the island on the east side of the Lower
Forty Foot Road.
Please read below.
Because of liability issues, visitors to the Kingston Field Naturalists'
property at the east end of Amherst Island MUST be accompanied by a KFN
member. For KFN contact information or how to become a member, please visit
http://kingstonfieldnaturalists.org/ ."
Bruce Di Labio
400 Donald B. Munro Drive
P.O.Box 538
Carp,Ontario,K0A 1L0
(613)839-4395 Home (613)715-2571 Cell
Di Labio Birding Website
Courses and Field Trips
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Beamer Point Migrants
From: "Giraud, Jacques" <jacques(AT)giraud.com>
Date: 21 Mar 2008 7:21pm
The raptor migration at Beamer Point outside of Grimsby, Ontario was a
little slow today due to the mostly north wind. Highlights of the day
were golden eagle, bald eagle and red-shouldered hawk. The flight picked
up in the late afternoon as the winds shifted to the south. If the winds
remain constant, March 22 could produce a strong flight and would be a
great day to see red-shouldered hawks.
It was also the Hawkwatch Open House today and I thought it only
appropriate to post a few photos of birds watching humans watching
birds.
http://tinyurl.com/2r9caj
Good Birding
Jacques Giraud
To get to Beamer CA, take the QEW to Exit 72, follow Christie
St./Mountain St. to the top of the escarpment, turn right on Ridge Road
West, and go 1.6km to Quarry Rd. Turn right on Quarry Rd. and drive 100m
to the conservation area. Parking is normally available inside the park.
If parking at the entrance or on the roads, do NOT leave valuables in
your car.
Jacques Giraud
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