On Thursday, December 2, 2004 I saw 2 Great Grey Owls east of Sault Ste Marie on Highway 17. The first was 500 metres west of Basswood Lake Road in the Village of Sowerby and the second was sitting on top of the "Pedestrian Crossing" sign in the Village of Mississauga on the south side of the street across from the Hydro One office. Meetings I had with municipal employees along the North Shore of Lake Huron on Wednesday & Thursday indicated a high level of interest among locals in these birds - and reports from them of other Great Greys in the area including on St. Joseph Island and in the farm areas south of the villages of Massey and Webbwood.
Another highlight was 3 Sharp-tailed Grouse flushed from a field by a diving juvenile Rough-legged Hawk in pursuit of an unidentified rodent. Lucky for me, not so lucky for the rodent. Todd Pepper Leamington, Ontario [EMAIL PROTECTED] From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Dec 3 18:29:45 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from maildir.nt.net (rad3.nt.net [209.226.51.11]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F032849E87 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 18:29:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from pop4.bellnordiq.ca (pop4 [142.217.217.23]) by maildir.nt.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iB3NSwAG017894 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 18:28:58 -0500 Received: from smtp4.bellnordiq.ca (smtp4 [192.168.150.24]) by pop4.bellnordiq.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iB3NWt5G025126 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 18:32:55 -0500 Received: from oemcomputer (Timmins3-138.nt.net [209.226.225.138]) by smtp4.bellnordiq.ca (8.12.11/8.11.6) with SMTP id iB3NbjUm023651 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 18:37:49 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Paul and Gert Trudel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ontbirds" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 18:33:08 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Subject: [Ontbirds]European Goldfinch.Gowganda On. Temiskaming Dist. X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 23:29:45 -0000 Hi everyone, For those who are interested the EUGO is still here. He spends most of his time on the south side Nyger Feeders. That make 16 days now. Also the Great Gray Owl can still be found at the 121 & 122 marker on HWY 560. Hundreds of Snow Buntings and Pine Grosbeaks are everywhere along HWY 560 and 65 Many are being killed by the cars. Good birding all, Gert Trudel Gowganda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
