Hello Birders, On my way home from a meeting in Orillia this past Monday, I checked out Wylie Road and was pleasantly surprised to find a Yellow Rail on the new Bluebird Ranch, in the sedges, just south of the Windmill Ranch sign. I clocked the distance of the location and it is just 4/10ths of a km north of the corner of McNamee Rd and Wylie Road, on the west side. There is a little wet area on either side of the road here, where the sedge is growing. At the fence, on the west side, there are two gnarly, bare black shrubby trees growing up next to the fence and the bird was in behind the more northerly one.
While it remained unseen in the sedges, it kept up a lively chat with my two clicking stones for several minutes. Hope someone can determine that this is, in fact, a second bird, and that it hadn't simply relocated to the Wren March for Ron Pittaway to find. I always stop here, because I always hear Soras here. I also heard a Virginia Rail on the East side, in reply to my clicking stones. Directions: Go north of Kirkfield on Kirkfield Road 6 past the liftlock to McNamee. Turn right then immediately left onto Wylie Road and go north, 4/10ths of a km of the west side. Cheers, Judy Kennedy _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
