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Birding Reports => Southern Ontario Reports => Topic started by: Andreas Jonsson on September 27, 2010, 10:56:05 PM

Title: Jaegers and Ducks in Hamilton
Post by: Andreas Jonsson on September 27, 2010, 10:56:05 PM

I just posted this on ONTBIRDS:

Hi all,

At Van Wagners Beach between noon and 2 pm today I saw one Parasitic
Jaeger and four unidentified Jeagers (probably all Parasitic). Despite
30 km/h winds from the E-NE sector all Jaegers passed at long
distance. There were also White-winged Scooters, Long-tailed Ducks, a
Bonaparte's Gull, and Sanderlings and a Ruddy Turnstone on the beach.
Others reported a Lesser Black-backed Gull.

In Windermere Basin there was a Pied-billed Grebe and a good variety
of ducks (ten species) including

10      Gadwall
X       Mallard
4       Blue-winged Teal
18      Northern Shoveler
6       Northern Pintail
X       Green-winged Teal
1       Ring-necked Duck
4       Greater Scaup
40      Lesser Scaup
50      Ruddy Duck

Not many shorebirds however, only a few Least, Semipalmated, and
Pectoral Sandpipers, a Semipalmated Plover, five Lesser Yellowlegs,
and ten Killdeer.

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Post by: Cody on September 28, 2010, 08:30:06 PM

Sounds like a pretty good day.   I hate to tell you this, but you missed a Laughing Gull by about half an hour :(

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Post by: Andreas Jonsson on September 29, 2010, 02:44:33 AM

The Laughing gull was found today, wasn't it. But it makes me wonder whether it was really a Bonaparte's Gull that I saw fly by...