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