Hi Everyone Today, October 3, 2004 I lead a field trip into Renfrew County. We first birded Westmeath Provincial Park and after some hard searching we were rewarded with excellent views of a Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow. Along the shoreline we encountered a few flocks of American Pipits, Horned Larks and 1 Lapland Longspur. The water level along the Ottawa River was low and there were 5 species of shorebirds, 2 Gr.Yellowlegs, 2 Pectoral Sandpiper, 1 Black-bellied Plover, 1 Sanderling and 9 Dunlin. We had 1 Pine Siskin fly over calling. Later in the day we birded Lake Dore and observed 1 adult winter plumage Little Gull in a flock of Bonaparte's Gulls. The loon numbers were up with 108 Common Loon but few Horned and Red-necked Grebes due to the rough water conditions. Interesting ducks including 9 White-winged Scoter and 8 Red-breasted Merganser. good birding Bruce Di Labio Birding Website Courses and Field Trips http://www3.sympatico.ca/bruce.dilabio/
Bruce Di Labio 400 Donald B. Munro Drive P.O.Box 538 Carp,Ontario,K0A 1L0 (613)839-4395 Home (613)715-2571 Cell Directions: From Ottawa take Hwy. 17 north to the first Pembroke exit and follow to County Road 21. Turn right and travel to County Road 12 and turn left Follow to Sand Point Rd. and turn left and go to end of road for access to the river. You can walk the beach east into Westmeath Provincial Park checking the vegetation for the sparrow. To reach Lake Dore, go north of Eganville on Hwy 41 for 5 km., then left on Point Church Rd. Drive along the road looking for clearing along the lake shore to view the water. If you require any additional information, please email me privately. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Oct 3 20:21:22 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: ontbirds@hwcn.org Received: from simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (simmts8.bellnexxia.net [206.47.199.166]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 783134813D for <ontbirds@hwcn.org>; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 20:21:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost ([67.71.63.197]) by simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <ontbirds@hwcn.org>; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 20:24:42 -0400 Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 20:33:45 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ontbirds@hwcn.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Subject: [Ontbirds]pine siskin, port hope X-BeenThere: ontbirds@hwcn.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 00:21:22 -0000 Since everybody is reporting their pine siskins, I feel emboldened to say that I too saw a pine siskin (I'm never confident of my IDs unless other people are seeing them too), this one at my mother's niger feeder on the west side of Port Hope on Saturday Oct. 2. My sister and my mother saw it also. Take the 401 to the western exit for Port Hope (there are only two) and turn right onto Toronto Road (Highway 2). I'm afraid I can't invite you to my mother's back yard, but Port Hope is pretty nice, and if you turn right at the first traffic light, you can follow Rideout Street/Lakeshore Road all the way to Newcastle, a drive that usually yields good birds and has spectacular scenery. ------------ Kathryn Mills Toronto [EMAIL PROTECTED]