Gillian M's Year/Photo List (1 Viewer)

[Gillian_M]

Seen May 17, 2007:

110. Eastern Kingbird
111. Pied-billed Grebe
112. Palm Warbler
113. Black-throated Blue Warbler

 

[Gillian_M]

Seen May 18, 2007:

114. Solitary Sandpiper

 

[Gillian_M]

Seen May 18, 2007:

115. Common Yellowthroat
116. Winter Wren
117. Virginia Rail

The Yellowthroat (male) popped out of the cattails for the briefest instant - just long enough for me to identify, not long enough to raise the camera.

I'm surprised I managed to get more than one photo of the Rail and yet none of the Common Yellowthroat!

 

[Gillian_M]

Seen May 20, 2007:

118. Northern Shoveler
119. Blue-winged Teal
120. Least Flycatcher

Two lifers at one sewage lagoon....not bad!!!

Edited June 9, 2007: As long as I'm posting video of flycatchers today, I might as well post this video I took of the Least Flycatcher late last month. I had already posted this link in the Q&A Forum in order to confirm its identity, but here it is again (Note to self: I think next year I'll have to do a "Photo/Video Year list"! :scribe.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v430/neverwords/Movies/?action=view&current=Flycatcher.flv

 

[Gillian_M]

Seen May 26, 2007

A trip to the Giroux Road Quarry ponds produced several new shorebirds:

121. Spotted Sandpiper
122. Red-necked Phalarope
123. Semipalmated Sandpiper
124. Black-bellied Plover

 

[Gillian_M]

Also seen May 26, 2007

Wall Road and Earl Armstrong Road were good for swallows, sparrows and bobolinks but, sadly, no Eastern Bluebirds:

125. Bobolink
126. Savannah Sparrow

(You know it's a good day when you see so many new birds to add to your year AND your life list! )

 

[Gillian_M]

Seen May 27, 2007:

127. Ovenbird

(No photo of this one, unfortunately....got a quick glimpse of him through the binoculars and then he was gone. No wonder this is one of the birds on my wish list for birds I need better photos of!)

 

[Gillian_M]

Seen June 2, 2007:

128. House Wren
129. Red-eyed Vireo

(both at the Upper Canada Bird Sanctuary)

130. Wilson's Snipe
131. Marsh Wren

(both seen at Cooper Marsh)

132. Brant

(seen along the shore of the St. Lawrence River)

 

[Gillian_M]

Seen June 3, 2007:

133. Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Right in my own backyard - the first one I've seen at my feeder!

 

[Gillian_M]

Seen June 9, 2007:

134. Alder Flycatcher
135. Eastern Wood-Pewee
136. Eastern Bluebird
137. Cliff Swallow

Two lifers today, not bad. Could have had a third, if I had seen the Grasshopper Sparrow instead of only hearing it.

And since those flycatchers can be difficult to identify from photos, I'm going to try something a little different today: Video! I took footage of both the Eastern Wood-Pewee (because I love its song on a summer day in the woods) and the Alder Flycatcher (since I wasn't entirely sure what it was). I also got a relatively nice photo of the Alder Flycatcher so I may as well post that, too. Unfortunately it was still dark this morning when I saw the Wood-Pewee so my photos didn't turn out that well and the video is rather dark. Oh, and every time the camera jostles it was because I was trying to swat a mosquito away from my face!


http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v430/neverwords/Movies/?action=view&current=June9003.flv

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v430/neverwords/Movies/?action=view&current=June9004.flv

 

[Gillian_M]

Seen June 16, 2007:

138. Indigo Bunting

(Another lifer I can take off my wish list - now I just need a better photo!)

 

[Gillian_M]

Seen June 23, 2007:

139. Grasshopper Sparrow

Seen June 25, 2007:

140. Black-crowned Night-heron

I actually saw at least three different night-herons, in five locations along Mud Lake Monday evening. If anyone is interested in seeing more photos and reading the details about my visit, my blog has been updated (link below).

 

[Gillian_M]

Seen June 30, 2007:

141. Common Tern
142. Red-headed Woodpecker

I can't believe that the year is now half over!

 

[Gillian_M]

Seen July 1, 2007:

143. Greater Yellowlegs

 

[Gillian_M]

Seen July 14, 2007:

144. Bank Swallow
145. American Bittern

 

[Gillian_M]

Seen Sunday, July 22, 2007:

146. Vesper Sparrow
147. Wilson's Phalarope
148. Lesser Yellowlegs
149. Eastern Meadowlark
150. Upland Sandpiper

I went birding with a local expert last Sunday. When I told him I hadn't seen a meadowlark yet, he said he'd find me one - and he did! Of course, it was too far away to see except through his spotting scope so I didn't get any photos of it or the Upland Sandpiper which he also found in the same field!

 

[Gillian_M]

Seen July 28, 2007:

151. Northern Waterthrush

 

[Gillian_M]

Seen July 31, 2007:

152. Chimney Swift

I wish I had gotten a better look at the bird itself, rather than its silhouette in flight, but unless I see one roosting in a chimney I don't think that's going to happen.

 

[Gillian_M]

Seen August 4, 2007:

153. Black-throated Green Warbler
154. Broad-winged Hawk
155. Bonaparte's Gull

Unfortunately the gull was too far out in the rapids to be seen except through a scope, and my first attempt at digiscoping was not very successful!

 

[Gillian_M]

This one's a little out of order...

Seen July 29, 2007:

156. Common Loon

Somehow I managed to forget this bird (and it was a lifer)! :eek!: