I have been here at Old Cut since I got back from Breakwater on the 5th. Since then, I have been doing much birding around the area, and a fair amount of banding in the mornings. I have banded a few new birds including, Gray-cheeked Thrush, and Connecticut Warbler. Also, a few days ago myself and a guy named Hugh, extracted a nice young female Cooper's Hawk together. A very cool bird, and I was very excited to have done this. I know I will have many other chances to deal with banding and extracting hawks from nets when I am at the Tip later in the season, but it was my first so I was excited. The current plan for tomorrow is to leave for the Tip first thing in the morning, then I will be stays there for awhile. I'm very excited because I haven't been to the Tip since YOW (Young Ornithologist Workshop) last year, and I remember it was a blast! I'm sure it will be great this time too!
I have been doing a fair amount of birding around the area lately, Big Creek looking for Least Bittern (would have been Lifer), BSC HQ looking for King Rail that was supposedly there all summer, and just various places near Old Cut. A few days ago I went to the Provincial Park beach looking for the Frigatebird seen a few days before. I did not get the Frigatebird, but As I was looking I did get 2 Little Gulls fly-by, and my first Parasitic Jaeger of the year in the distance harassing some Bonaparte's Gulls for food.Yesterday afternoon, myself and three British guys staying here went to Port Rowan Sewage Lagoons to do some birding. We managed to find many of both Yellowlegs species, a few Least Sandpipers, a lot of Pectoral Sandpipers, 2 Stilt Sandpipers, and my LIFER Red-Necked Phalarope! This is a long over-do for bird for me, and also gives my Life List the full trio of Phalaropes. Now all I need is a Long-tailed Jaeger to have the full trio of Jaegers as well!
Tuesday 11 September 2012
Wednesday 5 September 2012
Back from Breakwater....For Now.
So I'm back from my time at Breakwater Banding station on Long Point, and I had an exquisite time! Managed to find my nemesis lifer Whimbrel and got pictures as well!
I also got 3other year birds while I was there, Black Tern, Olive-sided Flycatcher, and American Golden-Plover. These four birds bring my ON year list up to 249species.
I also managed to band, and extract, a lot of birds while I was there, my total species banded list is now currently at 50, and my total individuals banded at 175. My best bird banded probably being Northern Parula as of right now, which is also one of my favourite Warblers.
Lots of migrants coming through everywhere, Broad-winged Hawks, Sharp-shinned Hawks, and Cooper's Hawks have all start to migrate. Some of the late migrating passerines have started to show up on Long Point as well, yesterday at Breakwater a Blue-headed Vireo was banded. Also a Yellow-throated Vireo was seen that day. A few days earlier there were 3 Northern Parula's seen, as well as a Golden-winged Warbler. This was the second Golden-winged for the season there, the first was the day it opened and the day I got there. The last few days have been great for Blackpoll Warblers, they are starting to come in in very large numbers. There were 14 on ET's yesterday and 23 on the 1st. There are also lots of Red-breasted Nuthatches coming through with a good number of Purple Finches along with them.
That's all for today though,
Good Birding!
Not a great photo but easily ID'able.
I also got 3other year birds while I was there, Black Tern, Olive-sided Flycatcher, and American Golden-Plover. These four birds bring my ON year list up to 249species.
I also managed to band, and extract, a lot of birds while I was there, my total species banded list is now currently at 50, and my total individuals banded at 175. My best bird banded probably being Northern Parula as of right now, which is also one of my favourite Warblers.
Lots of migrants coming through everywhere, Broad-winged Hawks, Sharp-shinned Hawks, and Cooper's Hawks have all start to migrate. Some of the late migrating passerines have started to show up on Long Point as well, yesterday at Breakwater a Blue-headed Vireo was banded. Also a Yellow-throated Vireo was seen that day. A few days earlier there were 3 Northern Parula's seen, as well as a Golden-winged Warbler. This was the second Golden-winged for the season there, the first was the day it opened and the day I got there. The last few days have been great for Blackpoll Warblers, they are starting to come in in very large numbers. There were 14 on ET's yesterday and 23 on the 1st. There are also lots of Red-breasted Nuthatches coming through with a good number of Purple Finches along with them.
That's all for today though,
Good Birding!
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