Major Birding Trip

Adult Male Breeding Greater Scaup Swimming

Trumpeter Swans

Ring-billed Gulls

Red-breasted Mergansers

Adult Male Downy Woodpecker Drumming

Eastern Adult Male White-breasted Nuthatch Storing Seeds

Adult Male Breeding American Wigeon Courting

Adult Male Breeding Ring-necked Duck Swimming

Adult Male Winter Long-tailed Duck Diving

Canada Geese

Yesterday Ruth called me because her leg had an infection and couldn't go to work today, so she asked if she could go birding with me today, I said yes at 11:00am. Today I got ready and Ruth picked me up at 10:49am, we left to Hamilton to go birding by Lake Ontario. We arrived there at 11:47am and many waterfowl were begging for food. We walked to the trail and Trumpeter Swans were begging us for food and if I raised my hand it would lift its bill and if I lowered my hand it lowered its bill. We saw many rare waterfowl there but whenever I told anyone , they didn't seem to care so they must not be rare. Anyway next we went to the forest trail beside the lake and saw woodpeckers and nuthatches, also some chickadees feed out of our hands. Most of them picked peanuts kearnels over black sunflower seeds, interesting. Next we went to a lift bridge that had a recent sighting of a Peregrine Falcon nest, but we didn't see itself or it's nest unfortunately. Then we went to Grindstone Creek, we got out and grackles, blackbirds, sparrows, robins and dove were chearfuly singing. It actually sounded silly with a mixture of chack, put and oooahhh all at the same time. We walked down farther and we saw many birds feathers laying on the ground and a Red-tailed Hawk soaring above. It had obviously captured this unfortunate pigeon. Oh well, hawks have to eat too y'know. It was soon reaching 3 o'clock and Ruth had to put her daughter Rebecca from work so we left.

Total Names of Birds Seem:

Red-winged Blackbird

Canvasback (Check for 2009)

Northern Cardinal

Black-capped chickadee

American Coot (Check for 2009)

Brown-headed Cowbird

American Crow

Mourning Dove

American Black Duck (Check for 2009)

Long-tailed Duck (Check for Life List)

Ring-necked Duck (Check for 2009)

Tufted Duck (Check for 2009)

House Finch

Common Goldeneye (Check for 2009)

American Goldfinch

Canada Goose

Common Grackle

Pied-billed Grebe (Check for 2009)

Western Grebe (Check for Life List)

Great Black-backed Gull (Check for 2009)

Herring Gull (Check for 2009)

Ring-billed Gull

Red-tailed Hawk

Dark-eyed Junco

American Kestrel (Check for 2009)

Killdeer

Mallard

Common Merganser

Red-breasted Merganser

Total Number of Birds Seen:31 species