Found my second Snowy Owl of the season around noon today. It was an adult
male, sitting on the ground about 400m north of Woodchopper's Lane and the same
distance west of Jane Street in the Holland Marsh vegetable fields. This open
area of flat farm fields is on the east side of Hwy. 400, less than two kms
north of Hwy.9 (which is Davis Drive in Newmarket). Also present in the same
vicinity was a first-year Northern Harrier hunting on the west side of Keele
Street, just south of Strawberry Lane and an American Kestrel sitting on the
roadside wires along Wist Road, which parallels Hwy. 400 on the east side of
the highway.
Newmarket is directly north of Toronto, about halfway to Barrie.
Ron Fleming
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