Birding, Butterflying and Birthdays . Although I am sheer that I have seed this before on Outbids hear I go agene !!!!! Ontario why wood you want to bird any wear ells !!??. Bev and I tuck off early this morning heading for Carden Plans with Coffee in hand our first stop was Janet and Ron's Cabin on Wiley rd to celebrate Janet's birthday ( I wont say which one ) and help with the fundraiser to by the 1600 acre Hawtin Ranch ( Windmill ranch ) which wood add too the preserving of the Carden Plans area for us all to enjoy in the future !!. For moor info on how you can help with this fundraiser please see the conservancy's webpage at www.couchconservancy.ca <http://www.couchconservancy.ca/> or by email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some of the good birds seen wear Wilson snipe 2 ( one at the side of the car ) Vesper sparrow 1 , blue bird 3 , Cedar waxwing 3 , Black Bill cuckoo 1 , sedge wren 1 , Clay colored sparrow 2 , Osprey 2 , rough grouse 2 . We also found 17 speeches of Butterfly's, a early Monarch being the most interesting one Craig & Bev McLauchlan Directions: From Kirkfield Ont., go north on #6, where the road bend to the west, turn Right on McNamee Rd. then a quick left onto Wylie Road. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun May 30 22:21:21 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: ontbirds@hwcn.org Received: from ccshst09.cs.uoguelph.ca (ccshst09.cs.uoguelph.ca [131.104.96.18]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59CB3484D0 for <ontbirds@hwcn.org>; Sun, 30 May 2004 22:21:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [131.104.101.103] (ppp101-03.net.uoguelph.ca [131.104.101.103]) i4V2Nb5R023910 for <ontbirds@hwcn.org>; Sun, 30 May 2004 22:23:37 -0400 User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 22:22:26 -0400 From: Karl Konze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ONTBIRDS List <ontbirds@hwcn.org> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 Subject: [Ontbirds]Cattle Egret flypast in Hamliton - May 30 2004 X-BeenThere: ontbirds@hwcn.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 02:21:21 -0000
Hi all, This morning (9:00 a.m.) while doing some birding in Hamilton (Mud Street & Mount Albion Road) I had what I am pretty sure were 3 Cattle Egrets flying south past me. By the time I noticed them they had already past me but they were definitely smaller in size than Great Egrets and shorter legged. The wing beats were fast but deep. Also present at the above location was a male Orchard Oriole, Northern Mockingbird, Willow Flycatcher, 2 Eastern Kingbird nests, a pair of Eastern Meadowlarks, and a pair of Black-billed Cuckoos. The cuckoos called noisily and flew around a lot. At one point in time one of the birds actually landed on one of the hydro wires high above and sat there for almost a minute! I also had two Common Nighthawks fly past westward and 5 minutes later discovered one squished on the road :( Good birding, Karl Konze Guelph, Ontario Directions: To get to above location, take the Lincoln Alexander Parkway west to Dartnall Road and proceed south to Stonechurch. Turn left and drive past Mount Albion C.A. (on right) to Pritchard Ave. Turn left and follow it over the parkway to Mud Street. Turn right and park in lot on left.
