Almost 2 weeks ago, Sunday, my Grandma and I decided to take advantage of the extra hour of sunlight to bird the Niagara river for the morning.
Highlights:
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| Evening Grosbeak |
Evening Grosbeak: 1 Bird at the McFarlane house calling constantly. It was pretty far away so I couldn't get a very good picture of it but here is a blurry one.
White-winged Scoter: Many at Lake Ontario view.
So overall nothing too much to report from Niagara area. We also checked out the whirlpool, power generating station and a couple of other lookouts but not much there either other than the usual herring and ring billed mix. We had to go back for church for 9:00.
After church we again went out again but this time in the opposite direction... towards Burlington. Got to Vanwagner's Beach at about 1:00 and things were pretty dead.
Highlights(Lakeland Center):
White Winged Scoter
Surf Scoter
Black Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
I actually spent most of my time there taking pictures of gulls on the beach.
After about an hour of this, hunger started to set in so we headed over to Hutches Resturant for some fish & chips and milk shakes(even though it was Chilly). When we were done eating we decided to do some birding just across from Hutches. That didn't last long. After about 5 minutes I checked my email and sure enough... Cheryl Edgecombe and Rob Dobos had found a Western Tanager at Westdale during the Fall bird Count. With another group of birders we went out to find it. Upon getting there we were walking down the hill to the path when Brett Fried and David Bell saw it just 10 feet in front of us. A group of us hurried down but could not relocate the bird(It was on top of a pretty steep hill in a backyard.) I did see, however, a tanager like bird fly past us but it wasn't IDable due to bad lighting and thick shrubbery.
During our search for this bird I got an Email from the Scholtens asking if I wanted to meet them at the lakeland center and head to 50 point afterwards...so we did.
Highlights for 50 point:
Black Scoter
Red-throated loon
