ONTBIRDS for Friday, May 2, 2008

Messages are displayed in the order they were received.  Subject  From  Time   [Ontbirds]Mottled Duck - Hillman Marsh   Todd Pepper   7:43am   [Ontbirds]Fw: American Bittern   Hans van der Zweep   10:27am   [Ontbirds]Gray-cheeked Thrush and Hooded Warbler, Ojibway Park   David McNorton    10:48am   [Ontbirds]White-crowned sparrow, warblers in South Mississauga   Giraud, Jacques   12:25pm   [Ontbirds] migrants are gradually arriving in Thickson's Woods, Whitby--May 2; Purple Finches in N.Pickering   Doug Lockrey   1:20pm   [Ontbirds]Mottled Duck. Yes@ Hillman Marsh   tate(AT)rogers.blackber   8:46pm   [Ontbirds]Kingston area birds to May 2, 2008   Peter and Jane Good   5:37pm   [Ontbirds] Hamilton Naturalists Club Birding Report - Friday, May 2nd, 2008   Cheryl Edgecombe   7:39pm   [Ontbirds]Harris' Sparrow/ Prothonatory Warbler at Rondeau PP   Bullock Family    8:13pm   [Ontbirds]TWO RUFF - Minesing Swamp   Doug Sheepway   5:30pm   [Ontbirds]EasternTowhee,Baltimore Oriole/Rattray   Sheila Hurn   5:42pm   [Ontbirds]Mottled Duck, Hillman Marsh at 8:20pm   Mark Cranford [Ontbi   9:58pm   [Ontbirds]May2 - Little Blue Heron,Port Rowan; Worm-eating Warbler Paletta Park; Ruff, Long-billed Dowitcher Minesing.   M. Bain   10:45pm   [Ontbirds]Re: Second Marsh- MAy 1   Siegmar Bodach    11:14pm

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Subject: [Ontbirds]Mottled Duck - Hillman Marsh
From: "Todd Pepper" <tandjpepper(AT)cogeco.ca>
Date: 2 May 2008 7:43am

The Mottled Duck reported by Dean Ware the evening of May 1, 2008 at the Hillman
 Marsh shorebird and waterfowl habitat was still present at 6:40 a.m. this
morning, May 2nd. The Mottled Duck was with two pair of American Black Duck on
the south side of the impoundment near the bench. The Mottled Duck was observed
for approx. 20 minutes. The bright yellow bill and lighter neck and head clearly
 distinguished it from the adjacent Black Ducks. Just as I went to digiscope it
the main flock of Mallards lifted off and headed east towards Hillman Marsh and
then the Black Ducks, Mottled Duck and Shovelers were quick to follow. Again the
 Mottled Duck stood out from the adjacent Black Ducks by its lighter body
colour.

Probably best to try for this bird again in the evening. 

Also present at Hillman this a.m. was a Stilt Sandpiper at the south-west corner
 and both Yellowlegs in the water nearest the pump station.

Todd Pepper
Leamington, Ontario
tandjpepper(AT)cogeco.ca
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Fw: American Bittern
From: "Hans van der Zweep" <hans.vanderzweep(AT)cogeco.ca>
Date: 2 May 2008 10:27am

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Hans van der Zweep
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:30 PM
Subject: American Bittern

 Upper Canada Bird Sanctuary had an American Bittern today .It was heard calling
 near the sewage dumping station and observed in flight going over the old
railway bed heading towards the St. Laurence River.
   Hans van der Zweep
 Upper Canada Bird Scantuary is about 3 miles west of Ingleside  along hiway 2
then south on Aultsville Road.
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Gray-cheeked Thrush and Hooded Warbler, Ojibway
         Park
From: David McNorton <mcnorton(AT)iprimus.ca>
Date: 2 May 2008 10:48am

I birded Ojibway Park in Windsor this morning, May 2, 2008.  On one of 
the wet trails towards the west side of the park, a Hooded Warbler was 
singing repeatedly.  It stopped singing at exactly 8:30, as if its shift 
had ended for the day.  

About half an hour later, on the east side paved trail, I was surprised 
by a Gray-cheeked Thrush.  It was an excellent view - this bird had no 
rufous on its tail at all, and a uniformly gray back and head.   It 
didn't have enough warmth in its colour to suggest a Bicknell's Thrush.  
It's my earliest record ever for a Gray-cheek. 

Other firsts of the spring for me today were Wood Thrush and Magnolia 
Warbler.

Ojibway Park is best accessed from Matchette Road in Windsor. 
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Subject: [Ontbirds]White-crowned sparrow, warblers in South
         Mississauga
From: "Giraud, Jacques" <jacques(AT)giraud.com>
Date: 2 May 2008 12:25pm

Hi Birders

 

A white-crowned sparrow has been at my feeder all day. Warblers include
yellow-rumped, black-and-white, black-throated green in small pockets
moving up the river systems low in the bushes.

 

Good birding

Jacques Giraud

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Subject: [Ontbirds] migrants are gradually arriving in Thickson's
         Woods, Whitby--May 2; Purple Finches in N.Pickering
From: "Doug Lockrey" <lockrey33(AT)rogers.com>
Date: 2 May 2008 1:20pm

There have been few bird reports from Thickson's of late; I am unable to get
there as much as in the past, due to a very bad leg. I shall endeavour to list
some of the highlights over the past few days:
Cooper's Hawk, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Belted Kingfisher, Woodpeckers--Downy, Hairy,
 N.Flicker; E. Wood Pewee, E.Phoebe, Blue-headed Vireo, House Wren, BLUE-GRAY
GNATCATCHER, VEERY, Hermit Thrush, Gray Catbird, Brown Thrasher,
Warblers--Nashville, Black-throated Blue, Yellow-rumped, Black-throated Green,
Blackburnian, Palm, Pine, Black-and-White, Ovenbird, perhaps Wilson's; E.Towhee,
 Sparrows--Chipping Sparrow, Savannah, Song, LINCOLN'S, White-throated;
Dark-eyed Junco, BALTIMORE ORIOLE.

The Daphne shrub is in full bloom. Vegetation is nearly 2 weeks behind last
year.

Over the past 2 weeks Betty Pegg has had regular visits by at least 5 male and 2
 female PURPLE FINCHES to her behind-the-house feeders. She is happy to have
birder visitors--perhaps phone in advance--I can give you her phone no. Her
house is the first house driveway on the south side off Concession 7 to the
immediate west of  Westney Rd.

Thickson's Woods--exit the 401 on Thickson Rd. in Whitby---go south toward the
lake, turning east as you approach the big White Pine woodlot on the east side. 

Doug Lockrey, Whitby, ON
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Mottled Duck. Yes@ Hillman Marsh
From: tate(AT)rogers.blackberry.net
Date: 2 May 2008 8:46pm

Terry Osborne just advised me that the Mottled Duck is back at the shorebird
ponds at Hillman Marsh at 4.30 pm in very bad rain and wind
It is associating with Mallards

Michael Tate

Michael Tate
1-613-863-8455 
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Kingston area birds to May 2, 2008
From: "Peter and Jane Good" <goodcompany(AT)sympatico.ca>
Date: 2 May 2008 5:37pm

There has been a whole slew of new migrants this week, lots of interesting
sightings and at least two that were totally unexpected. There was an Am.
Bittern at the Queen's University Biological Station(QUBS) on the 25th and a
Green Heron at Bedford Mills the next day. Virginia Rails were reported from
Lost Lake on the 26th and Little Cat on the 29th and there were 2 Common
Moorhens near Yarker last Sunday. Thirty Horned and 5 Red-necked Grebes were
off Amherst Island a week ago and what was really unusual were 8 more
Red-necked on Lake Opinicon yesterday. (These are very rarely reported away
from Lake Ontario.)

A trip to Amherst last Friday produced several species of shorebird
including 5 Upland and 2 Spotted Sandpipers, 1 Greater and 9 Lesser
Yellowlegs, a Dunlin and a Wilson's Phalarope. Also on Amherst, a single
Long-eared Owl and 2 Rough-legged Hawks were the raptor highlights.

So far only Blue-headed and Warbling Vireos have been seen; the former on
Amherst on the 25th and at Lemoine Pt. on the 26th, and the latter at the
QUBS on the 25th and on the Opinicon Road on the 27th. Ten species of
warbler were noted this week: 2 Yellow-rumped on Amherst last Friday, 4
Yellow at Lemoine Pt., 1 Pine on the Canoe Lake Road, 3 N. Waterthrush at
Lost Lake and a Palm on the Opinicon Rd. on Saturday, a Louisiana Waterthush
and a Nashville on the Canoe Lake Road and 2 Black-and-white and 2 more N.
Waterthrush on the Opinicon Rd. on Sunday, and a Black-throated Green at
Lansdowne and a Black-throated Blue at Lemoine Pt. on Wednesday.

There were 20+ Bank Swallows at a sand pit near Yarker on Sunday and 4
Purple Martins at Lemoine Pt. on Wednesday. The first Whip-poor-will of the
season was at Bedford Mills and the first Ruby-throated Hummingbird was on
Amherst, both seen on the 27th. Flycatchers arrived this week; 2 E.
Kingbirds on the Opinicon Rd. last Sunday, a Great-crested at Lansdowne on
Wednesday and a Least at Chaffey's Lock yesterday. The trip up the Opinicon
Rd. last Sunday also had 2 Winter Wrens, a House Wren and a Blue-gray
Gnatcatcher.

Five Evening Grosbeaks passed through Lemoine Pt. on Saturday and a
singleton visited a feeder near Glenburnie from Sunday until Wednesday. A
Rose-breasted Grosbeak was at Lansdowne and a White-crowned Sparrow picked
at freshly planted grass seed near Camden East on Wednesday. The last?
Common Redpoll was at Elginburg on Saturday.

The most surprising sighting was another Great Gray Owl, the third locally
since mid March, found on the QUBS property last Saturday.

Cheers,
Peter Good
Kingston Field Naturalists
613 378-6605

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Subject: [Ontbirds] Hamilton Naturalists Club Birding Report -
         Friday, May 2nd, 2008
From: "Cheryl Edgecombe" <cheryle29(AT)cogeco.ca>
Date: 2 May 2008 7:39pm

On Friday, May 2nd, 2008, this is the HNC Birding Report:

WHITE-EYED VIREO
WORM-EATING WARBLER

Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
American Bittern
Green Heron
Virginia Rail
Sora
Sandhill Crane
Greater Yellowlegs
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Chimney Swift
Least Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-wined Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
House Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Veery
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Nashville Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Pine Warbler
Palm Warbler
Black-and-White Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
American Tree Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Rusty Blackbird
Baltimore Oriole

A very busy week here in Hamilton with the arrival of many migrants and some
goodies too.  This weeks rarities include WHITE-EYED VIREO and WORM-EATING
WARBLER both hanging around together at Paletta/Shoreacres Park in
Burlington last seen last evening in the northeast corner of the park.
Patience is necessary as these two birds are skulkers and the Worm-eating
Warbler is especially elusive with its colour.  Other birds seen here in the
week include Brown Thrasher, Hermit Thrush, Warbling Vireo, Yellow,
Yellow-rumped, Black-throated Green, Pine and Palm Warbler and Baltimore
Oriole.  Tree, Barn, Northern Rough-winged Bank and Cliff Swallow along with
Purple Martin were seen over the park and along the lakeshore feasting on
the abundance of gnats down on the water.  Down the road at Shell
Park/Bronte Woods in Oakville, Magnolia, Black-throated Blue, Blackburnian
and Black-throated Green Warbler were seen at various times this week.

Another spot reporting WORM-EATING WARBLER is Rattray Marsh where two were
seen scrounging around in the foliage about 100 yds. east of the
intersection of the main marsh walkway and trail down the hill from the
parking area at the south of Bexhill. Other birds seen here in the week
include Sora, Common Terns, five species of Swallows and Purple Martin,
Least Flycatcher, Nashville, Yellow-rumped, Pine, Palm, Black & White,
Magnolia, Black-throated Green Warbler and Northern Waterthrush.

Another hotspot today was the VanWagners Ponds.  On the rail trail between
the ponds, Brown Thrasher, Hermit Thrush, Veery, Gray Catbird, Warbling
Vireo, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Black-throated Blue, Nashville, Black and
White, Palm, Yellow and Yellow-rumped Warbler, Northern Waterthrush,
Ovenbird, Swamp, White-throated and White-crowned Sparrow and Rose-breasted
Grosbeak. Quite a mix of birds and an indication that things have come in
with this front.

A walk behind Tansley Woods Community Centre located on Upper Middle just
east of Walker's Line yielded a similar mix of birds today with Wood Thrush,
House Wren, Blue-headed Vireo, Magnolia Warbler, Chipping Sparrow and Rusty
Blackbird being added to the list above.

The Northshore Trails of the Royal Botanical Gardens have been busy as well
with  Warbling Vireo, Blue Gray Gnatcatcher and a few Least Flycatchers,
Black-throated Green, Palm, Yellow and Yellow-rumped Warblers and Indigo
Buntings.  Today a Green Heron was flushed from the shore.

Lots to report in the odds and sods.  The Dundas Marsh is a good place to go
for listening to Soras and Virginia Rails. A Sandhill Crane was seen over
Cootes Paradise this week. An American Bittern was heard calling on 8th
Concession West east of Westover Road near the Antrim Glen housing
development.  Rose-breasted Grosbeaks were reported at a feeder in Dundas as
early as last weekend.  Red-necked Grebes are nesting down at Bronte Harbour
once again.  Green Heron and Greater Yellowlegs were seen at the Grimsby
Sewage Lagoons and a Forster's Tern was seen off Fifty Point.  Green Herons
were also reported from the Petro Canada Park in Oakville which borders
Bronte Creek. A Great Crested Flycatcher was seen at Tuck Creek just north
of Spruce yesterday.  Out in the Brantford area, Indigo Bunting (an early
record of April 22nd), Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Chimney Swift and Sandhill
Cranes were among the goodies seen here.

That's the news this week, keep reporting your sightings!  I love MAY!

Cheryl Edgecombe
HNC Hotline
905-381-0329

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Subject: [Ontbirds]Harris' Sparrow/ Prothonatory Warbler at  Rondeau
         PP
From: Bullock Family <bullock(AT)primus.ca>
Date: 2 May 2008 8:13pm

Greetings Birders:

Returning from Point Pelee today, we stopped by Rondeau PP this afternoon
where a  Prothonatory Warbler had been discovered by several birders in 
the pond near the Pony Barn.
There was also a  Harris' Sparrow was at the feeder at the Nature 
Centre, associated with White Throats and White Crowns.
I have digital photos but no personal website to post them.  Anyone 
interested, please contact me privately.

Directions: Rondeau PP is along Lake Erie between Leamington and London.

Wayne & Fran Bullock
Ancaster, Ontario

bullock(AT)primus.ca
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Subject: [Ontbirds]TWO RUFF - Minesing Swamp
From: "Doug Sheepway" <2loons(AT)gmail.com>
Date: 2 May 2008 5:30pm

Greetings all:

There are TWO Ruffs at Minesing Swamp today.

One has an all black head with a lighter ear patch, and the second has a dirty,
rusty brown head with a black nape. Both birds are showing black on the breasts,
 white eye-rings, and buffy at the base of the bill.

The birds were together, on the west side of McKinnon Rd., north of the power
line corridor, about 40m north of house # 9205, and 125m from the road.

Doug Sheepway

Dave Milsom's DIRECTIONS  Take Co. Rd. # 90 from Barrie west to Angus. McKinnon
Road is just east of Angus to the north.
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Subject: [Ontbirds]EasternTowhee,Baltimore Oriole/Rattray
From: "Sheila Hurn" <hurn(AT)sympatico.ca>
Date: 2 May 2008 5:42pm

On May 2nd at 8:00am a male Baltimore Oriole was sighted above the boardwalk
on the west side of the knoll.  Eastern Towhee on the north pathway at the
Petrie Way entrance.

 

Art Hurn

 

Rattray Marsh located at the foot of Bexhill Drive, south of Lakeshore Road
West in Mississauga

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Subject: [Ontbirds]Mottled Duck, Hillman Marsh at 8:20pm
From: "Mark Cranford [Ontbirds]" <ontbirds_coord(AT)rogers.com>
Date: 2 May 2008 9:58pm

Andrew Keaveney reports that the mottled duck was seen at Hillman Marsh 
between 7:45 and 8:20 pm today.

It flew in a southernly direction at 8:20 and landed just behind a 
shorebird cell, probably around the dike area.

I have no other information (Craig). This species is not on the Ontario 
List. Probably has never been seen north of Memphis.  Good photos and 
more will be needed by the OBRC

-- 

Mark Cranford
ONTBIRDS Coordinator
Mississauga, Ont.
mark.cranford(AT)ofo.ca
905 279 9576
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Subject: [Ontbirds]May2 - Little Blue Heron,Port Rowan; Worm-eating
         Warbler Paletta Park; Ruff, Long-billed Dowitcher Minesing.
From: "M. Bain" <mjcbain(AT)sympatico.ca>
Date: 2 May 2008 10:45pm

With the forecast for heavy rain all day east of Toronto, Richard Pope and I
drove west, first to Long Point for excellent looks at the "calico" Little
Blue Heron at the BSC Headquarters in Port Rowan.
Then we visited Old Cut where there had been a major fall-out of migrants
earlier in the morning. The woods around the banding station were still
quite busy, especially with White-throated Sparrows and Ruby-crowned
Kinglets. Species seen included Blue-headed Vireos, Veerys and Hermit
Thrushes, Gray Catbirds, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, and at least 10 species of
common warblers, but not the male Yellow-headed Blackbird, which apparently
is an "afternoon" visitor to the feeders there. A Hooded and a Blue-winged
Warbler and a Wood Thrush had been banded earlier in the day.
Six Sandhill Cranes, one pair displaying, were visible from the lookout at
Big Creek marsh and the cattails were full of singing Common Yellowthroats.

We then drove back to Paletta Park in Burlington and, amazingly, almost
immediately found the Worm-eating Warbler at about 1.30pm, exactly where it
was last reported yesterday evening - in the northeast corner of the park,
in the slough across the bridge east of the parking lot, close to the north
side of the path. It was a very richly coloured individual, giving us
wonderful views for several minutes as it foraged quietly in low vegetation.

Then we went north to McKinnon Road near Angus and found the Ruff in the
flooded field just south of the Hydro right-of way. It's head and neck are
now completely black and there is a suggestion of a ruff forming at the base
of its neck.
In the wet fields along both sides of the road were over 500 Greater and
Lesser yellowlegs constantly flying to and fro, several snipe, Dunlin, and
at least 1 Pectoral. On the west side, opposite #9329, was a
breeding-plumaged Long-billed Dowitcher feeding very close to the road,
showing diagnostic bright white scapular tips, and fine white fringes to the
thin black scallops on its cinnamon underparts. It gave typical "keek"
call-notes as it flew short distances - and had a very long bill, making it
most likely a female bird.

Directions (copied from previous posts)
BSC Headquarters are at the western end of Port Rowan, along Front Street.
The pond is visible from the observation deck on the south-west corner. To
reach Port Rowan, take highway 59 south and turn east on Front Street.
To reach Old Cut, return to Hwy.59 and go south - Old Cut Blvd. runs east,
just befor the entrance to Long Point P.P.

>From QEW take Appleby or Walkers Line south down to the Lakeshore.
Paletta/Shoreacres is east of Walkers Line and west of Appleby Line on the
south side of Lakeshore Road in Burlington.

Take County Rd. 90 from Barrie west to Angus. McKinnon Road is just east of
Angus to the north.

Margaret Bain
Cobourg
mjcbain(AT)sympatico.ca

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Subject: [Ontbirds]Re: Second Marsh- MAy 1
From: Siegmar Bodach <sigipatti(AT)sympatico.ca>
Date: 2 May 2008 11:14pm

While going  about my business I made a stop at the Second Marsh yesterday
between 2:45pm and 4 pm and the following observations:
2 breeding adult Little Gulls and possibly a 3rd(2nd winter) flying 
around the
marsh with  also 4-6 Bonaparte's Gulls.
3 separate male Yellow Warblers singing on territory. 1st for this spring
2 Gray-blue Gnatcatchers (male and female) moving about in the trees with a
group of YRWA(12 to 15) along the east edge of the marsh.
1 male Palm Warbler near GM platform.
5 Hooded Mergansers(2 males,3 females) in marsh with other waterfowl
2 pairs of Blue winged Teal in pond.
1st White-crowned Sparrow for me this spring.

Good Birding,
Siegmar (Sigi) Bodach
Aurora, ON
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