At about 3:15 p.m. today on the way home from Point Pelee and vicinity, I
spotted a very dark buteo perched high in a tree behind a factory ("Lanex")
located at 5000 Walker Road. I figured it was probably a dark morph
Rough-legged, a bird I really like, and suggested to my brother Robert that we
pull into the driveway to have a look at it. After getting it in the scope, I
was surprised to see that it was an adult "Western" Red-tailed Hawk. We could
clearly see the brick red tail with multiple thin dark bands, and the
upperparts and head were uniformly chocolate brown. After repositioning to get
a different angle, we could see that the belly was a creamy white. I guess it
would be an intergrade between a dark phase and light phase. Very beautiful! I
would think it may well hang around this area. It flew off to the north behind
other industrial properties as my brother was getting ready to photograph it.
Randy Horvath, Windsor
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
---------------------------------
Find your next car at Yahoo! Canada Autos
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Nov 26 17:38:20 2005
Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Delivered-To: ontbirds@hwcn.org
Received: from smtp1.golden.net (smtp.golden.net [199.166.210.31])
by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CA1563C1A
for <ontbirds@hwcn.org>; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 17:38:20 -0500 (EST)
Received: from node-520.tor.pppoe.execulink.com ([216.59.242.8]
helo=carol8a19c7f3e) by smtp1.golden.net with esmtp (Exim 4.50)
id 1Eg8qr-0000di-JB
for ontbirds@hwcn.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 17:49:01 -0500
From: "Carol & Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <ontbirds@hwcn.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 17:48:59 -0500
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11
Thread-Index: AcXy25bvHolgJHbnQjKp16YeQxCzcA==
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1
Subject: [Ontbirds]Barrow's Goldeneyes - Stoney Creek
X-BeenThere: ontbirds@hwcn.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 22:38:20 -0000
Hi Birders,
Although several people we ran into today mentioned also seeing these birds
no one has posted, so here it goes.
This morning on the way to the Niagara area our group stopped at Green Rd.
to look for ducks. There was a large raft of diving ducks including many
White-winged Scoters and a few Black and Surf Scoters mixed with Scaup,
Long-tailed Ducks, etc. There was a larger raft about where Grays Rd is, so
we headed there. At that spot the ducks were in fairly close with 50+ of
each Scoter spp, and the highlight being 2 male Barrow's Goldeneyes in nice
and close. We watched them for about 15 minutes and continued on. We had
also stopped at the Canada Centre for Inland Waters where we had 1 American
Pipit flush off of the rocks.
At Niagara our highlights were:
Control Gates:
1 Glaucous Gull (2nd year)
3 Lesser Black-backed Gulls (adults)
1 adult Iceland Gull
Red-necked Grebe
Northern Shrike
Pumphouse:
1 Lesser Black-backed Gull
Adam Beck:
4 Iceland Gulls (1 2nd year, 3 adults)
2 Thayer's-type Gulls
Directions:
Grays and Green Roads are accessed off the North Service Road along the QEW
in Stoney Creek
Good Birding,
Mike Burrell
Heidelberg, Ont.
