Was surprised to find a female Black-backed Woodpecker at Sauble Beach Friday. Bird was observed quietly flaking bark off a pine in a Red Pine plantation.
The woodpecker was observed on the west side of Sauble Falls Parkway about 2.5 km north of the main intersection in Sauble Beach. It was about 100 m north of the entrance to Ausaubel Falls? school. Note that pine plantations are widespread in the area and the bird probably ranges fairly widely feeding throughout them. Other interesting birds observed in the area were Pine and Magnolia Warbler, Hermit Thrush and Broad-winged Hawk. A pair of Piping Plovers are nesting at the north end of Sauble Beach and have now hatched 4 young. The area where they are has signs announcing their presence. Don Graham Toronto, ON [EMAIL PROTECTED] From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jul 14 19:19:34 2007 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from fep1.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DCC2634B8 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:19:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from CLAUDE (d57-186-185.home.cgocable.net [24.57.186.185]) by fep1.cogeco.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 8DC7913BA for <[email protected]>; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:19:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "Claude Radley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ontbirds" <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:19:21 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 Importance: Normal Subject: [Ontbirds]Peregrine at Tilbury X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:19:34 -0000 Hello all, Hope everyone is enjoying summer. We had a first year (noticeably brown with heavily streaked buffy/brown breast) Peregrine overfly our yard on July 7th. Presumably the same bird was present again late this afternoon. The bird made a nice low and slow pass today and by the apparent size it is probably a male. cheers, Claude Radley, Tilbury, Ontario www.hbmo.org
