Greetings ONTBirders: This afternoon I found a single GREAT EGRET at the large quarry pond off of Earl Armstrong Road in Gloucester. The bird was associated with several hundred CANADA GEESE and another single GREAT BLUE HERON.
On Bowesville Road, a RED-TAILED HAWK provided excellent views perching on one of the fence posts along the roadside. Along the airport-side of Leitrim Road there was a dark-morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK being antagonized by a female NORTHERN HARRIER in the large field near the intersection of Leitrim and Limebank Roads. Good birding! Pat Directions: (courtesy NeilyWorld) From Highway 417 (The Queensway) take exit 121A (Bronson Avenue). Go SSE on Bronson for 3.6 km, crossing the Rideau River on the Dunbar Bridge and going over Riverside Drive, before bearing right to take the Brookfield Road exit. In 0.1 km merge right onto Brookfield Road and drive 0.5 km to Riverside Drive. Turn left onto Riverside Drive and go 5.9 km to Limebank Road on the left. Turn left or SSE onto Limebank and drive 5.0 km to Earl Armstrong Road. Turn left or ENE into the Earl Armstrong Road site. _________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list ONTBIRDS@hwcn.org For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdssetup.php ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdsguide.php
