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Birding Reports => Eastern Ontario Reports => Topic started by: beresford on July 16, 2010, 05:18:45 PM

Title: Yellow throated warbler and barred owl @Long Sault, July 16
Post by: beresford on July 16, 2010, 05:18:45 PM

Today was once again full of some wonderful surprises at Long Sault. I got there just as the sun was rising and birded for 2.5 hours before I'd had enough of the heat and most especially the bugs.

Highlights include:

-barred owl
-field sparrow
-indigo bunting-5
-f rose breasted grosbeak
-hairy woodpecker
-rusty blackbird-6
-brown thrasher
-eastern towhee
-scarlet tanager-2
-olive sided flycatcher- my first of the year :)
-northern oriole
-northern mockingbird

warblers: tennessee, mourning, chestnut-sided, pine, common yellowthroat, yellow-throated warbler

The yellow-throated warbler was in plain sight for about five seconds at a distance of about five meters. I can dismiss it being a female blackburnian, because only the throat was yellow not the head, which leaves the only other possibility, a northern parula.

I'm pretty certain its not a parula b/c the plummage on the back was a mottled black and white, not the relatively uniform colouration of a parula... which leaves me with the yellow-throat. I also saw a half dozen of them this year in Mexico so I have a decent idea of what they look like.

A great day!

Cheers and happy birding.

-Tim-

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Post by: MEGHAN on July 16, 2010, 07:01:04 PM

Great sightings Tim!!
Is this in the Conservation area?

Meghan

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Post by: Moira on July 17, 2010, 04:09:24 PM

I must admit I'm envious of a number of these sightings.  Congrats :)

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Post by: beresford on July 18, 2010, 04:17:12 PM

Hi Meghan.

Yes all the spots were within the Conservation area. On the eastern bluebird and eastern cottontail trails.

Thanks Moira.

It was a great day to be out. I feel very fortunate.

Happy birding!

-Tim-