Manitobabirds · birds and birding in Manitoba Canada

[Manitobabirds] Lark Bunting & Northern Parula in SW

Fri, 25 May 2012 10:38:21 -0500

Before anyone gets too excited, both of these were no doubt migrants but thought I`d mention them anyway. On Tuesday I had a Northern Parula (singing no less) on migration near the Souris River west of Souris River Bend.

Yesterday, I had a female Lark Bunting in the extreme SW

[Manitobabirds] chimney swifts

Fri, 25 May 2012 06:19:48 -0500

One wednesday evening in Neepawa I saw a pair of chimney swifts flying with purple martins and common nighthawks. Yesterday while at work by Eden I was pleasantly surprised to see a prairie falcon fly right by me and stayed for good looks for about 5 minutes hunting.

[Manitobabirds] Common Nighthawk,s

Thu, 24 May 2012 19:40:00 -0500

Hi, Last Night just after 9-00 pm 2 Common Nighthawks Hawking insects over this area of NW Winnipeg ,Bob Robinson.

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[Manitobabirds] Least Sandpiper picture (I think)

Thu, 24 May 2012 19:14:40 -0500

I have posted what I believe to be a Least Sandpiper that I captured at Fort Whyte in Winnipeg on May 20, 2012.
If anyone can confirm identification please do so...
Thank you
Guy Lichter
Winnipeg.

[Manitobabirds] Interaction between a Monarch butterfly and a male American redstart

Thu, 24 May 2012 18:08:05 -0500

We have prolific growth of Red-osier dogwoods beside our house which must harbor many insects because it has attracted a pair of Magnolia warblers and two female and a male American redstart for about 7 days now, as well as other species which pass through more quickly.

Yesterday afternoon, 23rd May,

[Manitobabirds] Golden Winged Warbler

Thu, 24 May 2012 11:35:20 -0500

Hi All

Emmy and I were out visiting my atlas squares in the Pembina Valley on
Monday and observed a Golden Winged Warbler. We were watching some
birds bathing in a small stream when in jumped this bird. We watched it
for perhaps 30 seconds before it flew away

[Manitobabirds] Whitewater Lake Bird Festival

Thu, 24 May 2012 10:02:00 -0500

Thanks to the coordinating efforts of Dale Banman a highly successful Whitewater Lake Bird Festival tour - or rather series of tours - took place from the evening of May 21 to afternoon of May 23. For those not familiar with Whitewater Lake it is a large shallow lake with

[Manitobabirds] Connecticut Warbler

Thu, 24 May 2012 07:48:58 -0500

Just had a singing Connecticut Warbler and first of year Alder Flycatcher + another Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

Bob Shettler
Headingley

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[Manitobabirds] Common Nighthawks

Wed, 23 May 2012 22:22:02 -0500

Hello all,

Two common nighthawks were heard and seen flying over Kingsway Ave. in the River Heights area of Winnipeg tonight around dusk, 9:45 p.m.

A.J. Levin
Winnipeg

[Manitobabirds] Green Heron

Wed, 23 May 2012 09:17:50 -0500

When I pulled into the parking lot this morning for Birds and Breakfast at Fort Whyte Alive a Green Heron flew low over the car and east over the small marsh into the trees. It was being chased by a half-dozen Red-winged Blackbirds. I saw it for 5 or 10

[Manitobabirds] Further to............. ID Requests

Tue, 22 May 2012 23:20:32 -0500

Hi All: Thanks also to Carrie for her input and help with my ID's. I just read her post after sending mine just now. I had received an email from Christian Artuso and she is correct with all her ID's of my photos. The Accipter is

[Manitobabirds] 'Confirmed' ID Requests

Tue, 22 May 2012 22:54:17 -0500

Hi All: Regarding my earlier request for help with the bird identifications in our yard (4 photos), I would like to thank Christian Artuso. I can now file those photos in their proper folders: Sharp-shinned Hawk, Chipping Sparrow (Juvenile), House Finch (female) and Song Sparrow. I

[Manitobabirds] ID requests

Tue, 22 May 2012 22:37:32 -0500

My turn to try and ID the latest birds!
For those wanting larger pictures, if you click on the link above the picture that says original you'll often get a much larger picture.

Wendy - I think the eagle is probably a 3rd year Bald Eagle. You can see a pale

[Manitobabirds] Eurasian Collared Dove

Tue, 22 May 2012 20:01:03 -0500

Hi, The mystery of this bird keeps me on my toes I took pictures on Wednesday the 16th on Thursday the 17th the 2 birds flew past our front garden heading South down our street ,

[Manitobabirds] I Need Help with a few ID's

Tue, 22 May 2012 15:16:52 -0500

Hi All:

I am going thru some of my photos and realized I had a few (4) unidentified bird photos (3 were taken in 2010; 1 this month). I need the help of someone with more experience/knowledge in the identification process. I hope the photos are clear

[Manitobabirds] Lake Wanipigow

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:04:31 -0500

Hello all,
This long weekend on the 20th and 21st my husband(Brian) and I opened the cottage and in between getting the place ready for summer I was able to identify 14 species. We're on a small island in the eastern portion of L. Wanipigow with mature conifer,broad leaf forest and

[Manitobabirds] Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

Tue, 22 May 2012 09:18:31 -0500

Had a good view of a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher this morning in the yard along with a smattering of migrating warblers (interestingly, almost all were singing).

Bob Shettler
Headingley

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RE: [Manitobabirds] Netley Marsh Questions

Mon, 21 May 2012 20:51:46 -0500

Wendy, your description suggests a Western Grebe--have a look in your field guide, or look online and see what you think.
Cheers, Rob Parsonstemporarily in North Platte, Nebraska

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[Manitobabirds] Netley Marsh

Mon, 21 May 2012 20:44:55 -0500

I had a marvellous bird outing at the marsh yesterday - over 30 species while sitting or walking just a quarter mile; that many and more in the next quater mile. I believe most all of the birds at the marsh are here to stay now. Last week's motherload

[Manitobabirds] Netley Marsh Questions

Mon, 21 May 2012 16:50:45 -0500

Hi Everyone,

Frank and I drove out to Netley Marsh today. After reading Charlie
McPherson's post about his Mother's Day Motherlode we figured we would see something interesting. And we did!

First we drove down a rutted road that led to the lake just south of
Matlock. We spotted an American

[Manitobabirds] SE MB

Mon, 21 May 2012 16:34:42 -0500

[Manitobabirds] Trumpeter Swans near Birch River (ne of Hadashville)

Mon, 21 May 2012 13:30:23 -0500

Hi all

While trundling around some back roads northeast of Hadashville
yesterday (May 20), I saw 4 Trumpeter Swans fly up from a bare
cultivated field and disappear flying low, eastward into the
hinterland. I didn't get good head-profile views, but am basing my
identification on size, extremely long necks

[Manitobabirds] Sunday birding

Mon, 21 May 2012 08:21:12 -0500

I walked around La Broquerie for an hour yesterday afternoon to see if I could find the Eurasian Collared-Dove reported several weeks ago by Garry Budyk. I was rewarded with a brief look and a quick coo before the lawn mowers took over again. I saw the dove east of

[Manitobabirds] Red-headed Woodpecker

Sun, 20 May 2012 22:17:26 -0500

Hi All
I was doing my evening walk in Assiniboin Park and when I got to the buffalo compound and a Red-headed Woodpecker popped up. It was a beautiful male. Hopefully he will find a a nesting spot nearby.
Enjoy
Neil Butchard
Winnipeg

[Manitobabirds] W. Shoal Lake - St. Ambroise Nature Manitoba birding outing

Sun, 20 May 2012 18:48:55 -0500

Hello all,
Ten of us enjoyed a fine day of birding during the Nature Manitoba outing to the West Shoal Lake-St. Ambroise area (with the Portage Dump as a great final stop). Although W. Shoal Lake had relatively few ducks, we did get some other good birds: 14 Great Egrets,

[Manitobabirds] Update on Chimney Swift project

Sun, 20 May 2012 15:48:51 -0500

There's a Victoria Day update on the Manitoba Chimney Swift Initiative at
http://swift-notes.blogspot.ca/2012/05/victoria-day-update.html

Frank Machovec
project coordinator
Winnipeg

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[Manitobabirds] Birding and Breakfast at FortWhyte Week 5

Sun, 20 May 2012 11:00:00 -0500

Another amazing week at FortWhyte Alive's birding and breakfast. This year we have already added several species to our check list that have never been seen at FortWhyte before including: Townsend's Solitaire, Spotted Towhee, Turkey Vulture, Golden-Winged Warbler and the Northern Parula.

Here is our list from Wednesday, May 16th:

[Manitobabirds] Veery

Sun, 20 May 2012 06:12:30 -0500

hi

A Veery's song dominated the dawn chorus at 5:00 am on Glenwood Crescent, Elmwood this morning. In 30 yr that we have lived in this house we have never heard one in the yard here and only seen them once or twice.

Richard Staniforth

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[Manitobabirds] yellow-bellied flycatcher

Sat, 19 May 2012 16:42:43 -0500

Yellow-bellied flycatcher sitting in my tree along with a yellow warbler. Earlier today a beautiful male Canada warbler singing from the lilac bush during a lull in the rain.
Dominique
Winnipeg

[Manitobabirds] King's Park- Green Heron, Warblers, Vireos etc.

Sat, 19 May 2012 14:48:51 -0500

Hello Birders,

This morning in King's Park at 10:30 I saw a Green Heron at the pond in King's Park in Winnipeg. It was flying around the pond area for 15 minututes, at one point being chased by a merlin, then flew east and out of sight behind the trees on

[Manitobabirds] orchard oriole

Fri, 18 May 2012 20:06:10 -0500

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but yesterday morning we had an orchard oriole in our yard for a short while. This is the first time we've seen one in our yard, in MacGregor. It wasn't here for long, but I did see it about 3 times over

[Manitobabirds] Canada Warbler

Fri, 18 May 2012 15:02:25 -0500

Had a Canada Warbler two days ago near Ste. Rita. New for the year list?
Cheers,
Rudolf Koes,
Winnipeg.

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[Manitobabirds] House Finch fledglings

Fri, 18 May 2012 12:07:03 -0500

Two recently fledged House finches showed up in the garden today, sporting feathery spikes on the top of their heads and begging for food. It was our first look at this years crop.

Cheers,
Deanna Dodgson
Winnipeg

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[Manitobabirds] GCFL, BBWA etc

Fri, 18 May 2012 11:22:57 -0500

Good morning,

I don't remember seeing Great Crested Flycatcher reported so I should probably mention that I had one on the 16th at the Windsor Park Golf Course.

This morning in King's Park there were 3 more. Best find of the day for me was a Bay-breasted Warbler male. The

[Manitobabirds] Fort Whyte

Fri, 18 May 2012 10:08:53 -0500

Some pretty good warblers at Fort Whyte Alive this morning (Friday, 18 May) -- on McCreary Rd west of Kenaston. The best: a Golden-winged Warbler by the pond near the conifer mound on the east side of the sanctuary. Others: Parula (Ryan), Blackburnian, Redstart, Wilson's, Tennessee, Yellow, Yellowthroat, Northern Waterthrush.

[Manitobabirds] Red-headed Woodpecker!

Fri, 18 May 2012 09:23:36 -0500

I was thrilled this morning when a RH Woodpecker swooped in from a grove of
birches 100 yards from the house, landed atop a hydro pole, surveyed the
yard for about ten minutes and then flew back into the same trees. Any new
yard bird is nice, but especially so when it

[Manitobabirds] House Wren(s)

Fri, 18 May 2012 09:06:04 -0500

Hi all: We noticed our first House Wren back to our yard on May 10, 2012. We have a birdhouse on our shed, and last year a family of 4 were raised and left the nest on July 9, 2011. A second nesting shortly thereafter was not

[Manitobabirds] Olive-sided Flycatcher

Thu, 17 May 2012 22:36:33 -0500

I forgot to mention that Deanna and I also saw an Olive-sided Flycatcher today . It was at Rd 54N at Jim Hill Track ( Rd 30W , I think ) .

Cheers ,
Garry Budyk
Winipeg MB

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[Manitobabirds] Common Nighthawk

Thu, 17 May 2012 22:06:51 -0500

I saw my first Common Nighthawk of the year this evening flying over the house - a very welcome sight. The hordes of Tennessee Warblers that have been inhabiting my neighbourhood (River Heights in Winnipeg) all seem to have moved on overnight.

Regards,
Carolyn Curtis Hernandez
Winnipeg, MB

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[Manitobabirds] Spotted Towhee

Thu, 17 May 2012 21:27:13 -0500

I saw a singing Spotted Towhee in the Portage Sandhills ( south of Portage La Prairie ) today . Deanna missed it as she was further along the trail we were walking . It was one of at least 3 singing towhees in the immediate area and I saw one

[Manitobabirds] yard birds

Thu, 17 May 2012 21:22:35 -0500

*Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and Baltimore Orioles arrived in numbers
literally overnight yesterday. Our one hummingbird feeder is the focus of
dogfights between at least three individual males...no females seen yet.
Similarly, the hummer feeder and a few orange halves are being visited by
at least four male Orioles, with no females observed so far.

[Manitobabirds] Harris's Sparrow

Thu, 17 May 2012 18:56:47 -0500

As I said earlier, I can't mention all the species identified in the South-west last week (116 total) but I did want to point out a Harris's Sparrow that looked out of place on a fence post off a scruffy ditch south of Pierson. Definitely a first for the area

[Manitobabirds] Whitewater

Thu, 17 May 2012 17:58:10 -0500

Frieda & I spent a week in the Boissevain, Whitewater Lake, Lyleton area recently ( May 7-14) photographing birds. Without internet access at Walkinshaw B&B, I made only one short trip to an internet cafe in Boissevain to write a brief report. Unfortunately, when I got home a few days

[Manitobabirds] I.D. Request.

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:31:04 -0500

I would like some expert opinion on a hawk that I stopped and photographed yesterday morning along Chalet Beach Road, just south of Gimli Road. The hawk was sitting in an Oak tree, facing into the early morning sun. I figured that I would pull over and attempt to photograph

[Manitobabirds] Choir of Bobolinks/Hudsonian Godwit/ Black-bellied Plover

Thu, 17 May 2012 08:36:29 -0500

Yesterday Wed, May 16th, at the north mound of Oak Hammock Marsh, I saw at least 25 male Bobolinks singing - just like a choir - in a large willow tree. What a sight and sound!!

In the cell close to the interpretative centre, I had excellent looks at many

[Manitobabirds] Blue Jay Babies

Thu, 17 May 2012 08:23:01 -0500

Morning All

For the past week I've been observing the Blue Jays around here. Seems like a pair have fledged 3 young already. I've not kept records of this type, but mid-May to have young already out of the nest? Is it just me, or does this seem earlier than the

[Manitobabirds] Whitewater Lake

Wed, 16 May 2012 22:56:44 -0500

John Weier and I headed west to Whitewater Lake today . The wind howled non-stop all day . We stopped at Pelican Lake and found still small numbers of Western Grebes but no Clarkes among them .

We saw 5 Black-crowned Night Herons at Whitewater Lake ( west side )

[Manitobabirds] Kestrels

Wed, 16 May 2012 09:10:15 -0500

Hi all.Yesterday i was heading down Loudoun Rd.[In Winnipeg] to check out a bird house for Martins.The bird house is on the east side of the road just before the S curve.Instead of Martins there was two Kestrels sitting on the bird house. Ray Iverson

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[Manitobabirds] Swifts back in Brandon

Tue, 15 May 2012 21:53:40 -0500

With all the reports of Chimney Swifts returning to Manitoba I thought it high time to check out one of Brandon's known downtown sites this evening (May 15). This has actually been one of the few relatively calm evenings we've had out here in a while. Two birds were seen

[Manitobabirds] Indigo Bunting

Tue, 15 May 2012 12:17:41 -0500

Hi all,

I met up with Lars Jansson and Nella Schmidt this morning at the entrance to the English Garden and we all agreed the birding was very quiet. Having just arrived as they were leaving I spent a few minutes walking the paths and then heard what I thought was