Hi All
After receiving numerous e-mails questioning my sighting & only having an old
copy of Petersons Guide to go by I decided to research the Shrike. With the
help of an article sent to me by Mike Cranford & other articles & pictures I
must revise my post & sat that it was a Northern Shrike & not a Loggerhead that
I saw.
Bill Morden
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Possible Gyrfalcon at Hamilton
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At 10:20 this morning with overcast skies, while watching ducks at Gray Road in
Stoney Creek, I suddenly noticed a large creamy grey falcon flying low and fast
over the water going west toward Van Wagner's Beach and probably the Burlington
Lift Bridge area. This bird was intermediary in size between a Ring-billed and
Herring Gull, and the gulls were getting out of the way! It was definitely
lighter (and larger) than the two Peregrine Falcons that are hanging out at the
Burlington Lift Bridge.
When I first spotted it, it was only 35 feet from me and flying away so I never
got a look at its facial features. I've never seen a falcon this colour, nor
have I seen one flying so low over the water. It had obvious falcon shape, wing
shape, and flight characteristics, meaning that it was nothing but a falcon.
If it's what I think it may be, it could be spotted anywhere along the GTA
lakeshore. Hope it decides to rest somewhere.
Directions for a moving target? Maybe try the Burlington area. Exit the QEW at
North Shore BLVD and drive the Lakeshore Rd., or take beach Rd. toward the Lift
Bridge. Perhaps watch at Bronte Harbour, where Bronte Rd. meets Lake Ontario.
There might be a possible resting place for it on the new lighthouse restaraunt.
Good Birding,
Ken Williams
83 Edinburgh Ave.
Hamilton, Ontario, L8H 2C6
905 547 8580
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Northern Pintail & Bald Eagles, Collingwood
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While visiting Collingwood I went to Birch Street (Beaver&Bulldog) boat
ramp. Many mallards, several Mute Swans, one immaculate male Northern
Pintail and at 11:20 am a mature and first year Bald Eagle flew over.
Eleanor Kee Wellman
Bala, ON
eleanorkeewellman.com
