Showing posts with label Western Kingbird. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Western Kingbird. Show all posts

Thursday, November 14, 2013

The latest Western Kingbird

The intrepid Alan Wormington, who has an uncanny knack for turning up interesting birds during his annual forays across the north shore, found this Western Kingbird, a casual visitor to the district, on October 18, 2013 at the Schreiber-Terrace Bay landfill, a stone's throw from the Trans-Canada Highway. Thanks for sharing your photos Alan.
October 18, 2013. Courtesy of Alan Wormington.
October 18, 2013. Courtesy of Alan Wormington.
Other photo-documented sightings of WEKI along the north shore include:
  • Sept. 10. 2010, at Marathon
  • Aug. 21, 2012, a new addition to the Pukaskwa National Park checklist. James Telford's eBird checklist and photo here.
...and some older autumn records adjudicated by the OBRC, again courtesy of AW.
  • November 2, 1996: Thunder Bay (Nick Escott -- found by?) --- accepted by OBRC.
  • October 12, 1993: Thunder Cape (Nick Escott) --- accepted by OBRC.
  • October 13, 1992: Terrace Bay (Alan Wormington) --- accepted by OBRC. 

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Western Kingbird at Marathon

I swung by the boat launch in Jellicoe cove this afternoon to look for shorebirds. While I panned my binoculars across the open water a songbird flew across my field of view and landed about 50 m. away.

Western Kingbird! My first in Ontario.

It flitted about on the wind-buffeted rocks and shrubs for about ten minutes before it flew northwards along the rocky shoreline.

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