Some 22 species of lovely wood warblers have now graced the North Bay area,
most of them at the Laurier Woods reserve area, within the centre of North
Bay.
But, perhaps most unusually, the Callander lagoon, easterly cell is just
about perfect for migrating shorebirds at the moment. Some 50
Three Snowy Owls have been hanging out recently, about 15 miles east of
North Bay.
One is upon Development Road between Rutherglen Road and Mt. Pleasant
Road. That is just about 4 miles south and east of the little community of
Rutherglen, which is upon highway 17, about 13 miles due east of
The Brambling is present again today, Thursday, its second day at this site.
It feeds on the ground, often with a large group of Evening Grosbeaks -
close under a number of feeders, on the property of Vic Rizzo at 1025
McIntyre St. W. in North Bay.
Vic asks that no one come upon the lawn, but stay
Four Rough-legged Hawks, one a dark phase, were hovering over the farm
fields near the vicinity of the Warren sewage lagoons on Wed. aft. Warren is
about 40 miles due west of North Bay, along Hwy #11. The lagoon area is one
mile due east of the town, and just north of the highway. A road into the
3 1/2 hours north of Toronto, the warblers - 12 species of them, Scarlet
Tanager, Least Fly., Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Solitary Sandpipers, a
veritable feast of spring migrants arrived in North Bay on Friday morning.
Most , including, a close-up tanager, Blackburnian, Nashvilles, Cape May,
BWs,
A fairly co-operative Northern Hawk Owl has been showing itself regularly
for the past week or so, near 688 Ouellette Road, between Quae Quae and
Lavigne Roads. These latter 2 roads are about 5 miles due east of North Bay,
off hwy 17, and cross hwy 94 which goes south from the intersection of
Recent plummeting, colder weather has reduced drastically the
previous several hundreds of gulls (mostly Herring) (now only about 150
gulls present) at the North Bay landfill, but left behind at least a dozen
Glaucous, of all ages, a few juvenile Icelands, and juveniles of both
black-backed gulls,
A Red-throated Loon has appeared along the southerly edge of Trout Lake,
near North Bay this morning - Saturday Nov. 16.
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The North bay landfill site has huge numbers of gulls these days, including
at least 8 Glaucous, including a beautiful adult; fewer Iceland, Great
Black-backed, and of course several hundred of Herring in various plumages.
Thayers have been detected, also though misidentification of this
Josh; Good for you for discovering the sparrow and gull. As far as the
sparrow is concerned it has been noticed at lest two previous years about
this time of year, there. As for Lesser-Black-backed, they have fairly often
been noticed at the North bay landfill dump, usually earlier, as you have
Talking about godwits, a Marbled Godwit was at the Powassan lagoon,
northerly cell, to-day. It, along with a dozen or so Lesser Yellow-legs and
gulls, was temporarily disturbed by a soaring Red-shouldered Hawk from
neighbouring woods.
This lagoon is just north of Powassan, on the westerly side
All;
The White-winged Dove is very much alive and healthy in North Bay. Saw
it very readily yesterday aft. It is more often, it seems at the residence
of 1557 Pinewood Cresc. , than at a neighbours 1532 but could be
located at one or the other. The main respondent is Peter Mladen -
All; Just to correct: - North Bay is 350 kms. north of Toronto NOT 350
MILES!
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ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the
All; Just to correct: - North Bay is 350 kms. north of Toronto NOT 350
MILES!
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ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the
All; Just to correct: - North Bay is 350 kms. north of Toronto NOT 350
MILES!
The White-winged Dove is still around!
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ONTBIRDS
Seeing all the recent comments about Chimney Swifts, - they have arrived
(probably to-day) in good numbers in North Bay! (4 stop-lights due north of
Toronto).
First half dozen were noticed about noon, while to-night at least
one-hundred found their way into a popular chimney which happens to
This is just to let you know that there seem to be a fair number of
Northern Hawk Owls gracing our North Bay, Sturgeon Falls region this winter.
At least 5 are about in different local areas. If any are interested, just
phone me.
Dick Tafel, 705 472-7907
All
A surprise greeted 6 birders from North Bay recently when they heard
the distinctive call of one (or more) Yellow Rails.
They were seeking Sedge Wrens or possible Leconte Sparrows near
Astorville, Ont. when the Rail call was heard. This was between 8:45 and
9:00PM. After 9:15 the
All;
1. - No huge number of warblers at one area up here yet, as seems to
be the case at so many places down south (they are already spreading out?)
but one very interesting, other bird must be mentioned: a beautiful, full
plumaged Hudsonian Godwit at the Powassan lagoon, on Monday
A Peregrine Falcon was seen well on March 14 at the Ontario edge of the
Ottawa River about one mile north of Mattawa. It was perched just off the
shoulder of highway 533, running north of town. Unfortunately I cannot send
a pic of it through this route.
Very early migrant for this area (none
All;
A certainly rare in any season, (Arctic) Three-toed Woodpecker was
located, and watched leisuredly, as it worked hard to find food on the trunk
of one ³ripe² tree by young Chris Suhka, of Field, along with your reporter
and Fred Pinto, on Saturday aft. It will probably be around that
All;
The said goose has been seen at the now vacant (of golfers) Osprey Links
golf course along with two or three hundred Canadas for the past few days.
The course can be accessed via Cranberry road which is just a few miles
south of North Bay off highway 11 B past the Clarion Hotel., (or
all;
At a number of places around North Bay good-sized flocks of early
Bohemian Waxwings have been noted at or near berry bushes during the past
three days; also early Common Redpolls - at evening primrose plants, and
Evening Grosbeaks.
A White-fronted Goose (from Greenland?) was
Under very pleasant winter conditions conditions ( though with periodic
snowsqualls), some 600 people participated in the 27th annual North Bay
Christmas count on Sunday. Most were at their feeders - where also were most
of the birds. This large number should keep North Bay as the most active
Just thought I should mention that the North Bay landfill site, 20 kms due
north of the city off Sand Dam road (off hwy. # 11) is producing a lot of
lovely Arctic gulls at the moment.
At least 10 striking Glaucous of three ages are present, along with of
course hundreds of Herring of all ages.
I would like to invite each and every one of you to Gateway to Nature, the
74th Annual Ontario Nature Conference Nature Canada Annual General
Meeting, hosted by the Nipissing Naturalist Club at Nipissing University,
North Bay, June 3-5.
In addition to the informative sessions featuring
All;
By now you must be very tired waiting to hear about our Christmas count
- which occurred on Dec. 19. It was positively the coldest day in recent
memory; - 45 degrees below zero with wind-chill factor figured in. It was an
unpleasant day for birdwatching, to put it mildly (semi-pun).
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