Hi Everyone Today, February 6,2005 birded along the St.Lawrence River from Cornwall to Prescott. Overall, only a few open areas of water with Common Goldeneye being the commonest duck with approximately 750 and one male Barrow's Goldeneye at Cornwall. Other uncommon waterfowl included 1 Bufflehead, 1 Hooded Mreganser and 5 Red-brested Merganser. A Northern Shrike was observed hunting near the Saunders Generating Station in Cornwall. Very few gulls were observed along the river, the most interesting being a !st winter Iceland Gull at Prescott. Earlier today, near Ste.Rose just east of Casselman/Hwy.417, 3 Snowy Owls were observed along Con.20 & 19. Two different Song Sparrows were in drainage ditches in the area. In the Eagleson Road/Fallowfield Road area 4 Snowy Owls were observed late afternoon. Both the March Valley Road and Kilmaurs Side Road/Dunrobin Road had good numbers of Great Gray Owls late today. good birding Bruce
Bruce Di Labio 400 Donald B. Munro Drive P.O.Box 538 Carp,Ontario,K0A 1L0 (613)839-4395 Home (613)715-2571 Cell Di Labio Birding Website Courses and Field Trips http://www3.sympatico.ca/bruce.dilabio/ Directions: GGO/ From Ottawa travel west bound on Hwy. 417 to the March Rd./Eagleson Road and exit right onto March Rd. Follow to Klondike Road and turn right. Go east to March Valley Road and turn left. Follow along making numerous stops scanning the fields. Late afternoon to dusk maybe the better time to look. GGO/From Ottawa travel west bound on Hwy. 417 to the March Rd./Eagleson Road and exit right onto March Rd. Follow to Dunrobin Road and turn right continuing northwest through Woodlawn. At the hill continue straight and follow to next intersection which has a yellow flashing light. Snowy Owl/From Ottawa take Hwy. 417 west to Eagleson/March Road exit. Turn left on Eagleson and follow south to Fallowfield Road. Continue south along Eagleson Road checking the open fields, fence posts and telephone poles. Once you reach Richmond Road turn around and check again. There are a few roads that intersect Eagleson that you can cover, Brownlee,Akins and Rushmore roads.