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Report Bird Sightings—2016

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Peregrine Falcons—Photo by Mark Olivier

 

2016 Bird Sightings

 

November 14 - Gale Koteles reports spotting a Black-backed Woodpecker

 

November 5. Jim Hurvid reports a sighting of a Red-bellied Woodpecker on his backyard apple tree on Carpin Beach Road. He says “The bird book map shows that this is quite far North out of its normal range, and also I rarely recall seeing one before.”

 

April 6. Inge Dearing reports: On April the 6th at approximately 4 pm I discovered a Northern Shrike in my backyard sitting on top of my spruce tree. It was the day of our snow blizzard, therefore the picture is not the best. I have a bird feeders and lots of birds in the Finch family. It may be what attracted him.

 

 

April 11. Sand Point, Batchewana Bay. Glenn Goulay reports: I have a rather interesting story to relate. This morning , April 11, I was driving my wife to work around 8 AM and the following occurred : on Wellington St. between March and Elgin I commented to my wife “ Look at those ducks landing ahead on the street “. To our amazement, they were not ducks but a Peregrine with a pigeon and they both came down in the middle of Wellington. However, when we stopped, we scared the falcon off.  He lost his meal. Falcons must be living in the city  - plenty of ducks  and pigeons.

 

April 24.  Sand Point, Batchewana Bay. Glenn Goulay reports: Today I observed a pair of grebes at my cottage located at the Sand Point Narrows in Batchewana Bay. I believe they were Red-Necked but not quite sure. However, I DID observe reddish brown throats with binoculars. I have seen grebes routinely in the narrows in October & November for about the past 5 years. This is the first time I’ve seen them in the spring. They may have overwintered as the area was largely ice-free with the past mild winter. Not sure how common or rare these birds are here.

 

May 13-14. Sand Point, Batchewana BayGlenn Goulay reports: On Fri & Sat. (13 &14 May ) , my wife and I saw a Scarlet Tanager at our feeders at Sand Point. Quite spectacular – he was bright red with his belly yellowish towards the rump. His  wings and tail were dark brown rather than black. He was likely in mid-molt. Saw him many times over two days and quite clearly – unmistakable ! Additionally, our feeders were overrun by goldfinches, purple finches, siskins, chickadees, blue jays, large flocks of chipping sparrows and a few starlings. Aside from the feeders we observed gulls, terns, loons, cormorants, mergansers, turkey vultures, bald eagles, small hawks ( Coopers or Sharp-shinned ) , a Great Blue Heron, black & mallard ducks and finally, 4 or 5 very small ducks ( maybe wood ducks but not sure ). There are beautiful ponds behind the cottages. All in all, birds were fantastic ! The Tanager was the first I’ve ever seen.

 

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