28 participants enjoyed unseasonably warm weather yesterday to locate 57
species.
New species for the count were:
Horned Grebe
Great Blue Heron
White-winged Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Northern Harrier
Bonaparte's Gull
Belted Kingfisher
Horned Lark
Brown Creeper
American Robin
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Song Sparrow
Red Crossbill
Obviously the warm temperatures and open water were good for this count circle.
Winter finches and owls were noticably absent.
Good birding,
Cindy Cartwright
Saugeen Shores
www.ontariohummingbirds.ca
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Reesor Pond at 3pm today had a Northern shrike quartering
the ground of the west bank while there was a neat float-past
of 13 Cackling geese, these quite pale and short-necked, not
like the four more common dark Cackling geese that are so
much like miniature Canada's, [one had a distinct white neck-
ring] that I saw earlier in the week.
Cackling geese show up daily among the larger flock of about
2000 Canadas - these Canadas part of a larger mass wintering
in the area that I guess consists of 10/15000 birds - a Bald-
headed eagle had them all in the air a week or so ago - the
air full of them from Hwy 407 in the South to North of Hwy 7.
I suppose there are GTA records of over-wintering Cackling
geese ?
Lesser scaup, Pintail, Common mergansers, Buffleheads and
Black ducks are commonly found in the mix - a juvenile Red-
shouldered hawk hung around the pond for a couple of days
before Christmas - cheers - Stan Long
ps - Reeosr Pond lies just North fo Hwy 407 on Reesor Road
in Markham
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Rough-legged Hawks, near Ottawa
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Saw two Rough-legged Hawks at 1:30pm today on Scheele Road just west of
Arnprior - the birds put on a fantastic aerial display with flyovers and
hovering. Lots of pix taken.
Directions from Ottawa: 417 west to Arnprior, continue west a few km on the
2-lane section (Hwy 17), continue past Campbell Side Road, right at Scheele
Road. Birds were seen over fields on right side of road within a few
hundred metres of the Hwy.
Don Wigle
Ottawa
