The nicest birding weather this winter made for a very enjoyable stretch
of country driving and birding in York Region today. Along Weston Road
south of the Lloydtown Road (between Kettleby and Pottageville west of
Hwy. 400) I observed a very brawny female NORTHERN GOSHAWK with a full
crop as it c
While out skiing today (conditions were excellent) I encountered a flock of
25 Bohemian Waxwings along the ski trail near Summerstown just east of
Cornwall. With the scattered reports coming in from across the province
this weekend, it looks like a modest late winter movement is in the works.
T
West Humber Naturalists' group enjoyed a great winter's day birding in the Hamilton and Port Credit areas.
Our first stop at McGillvray in Vaughan produced Snow Buntings and Horned Larks.
Both Harlequin Ducks and Red-necked Grebe were seen off the Port Credit harbour. Two to three Ist-year male Ki
WEEKLY BIRD REPORT FROM PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY AND THE QUINTE AREA
for Sunday, February 01, 2004
Temperatures in the Quinte area stabilized somewhat from the frigid
temperatures of one week earlier. However, the only open water in Prince
Edward Bay, where many ducks can normally be seen, is now arou
Hi Everyone
Mary Schuster and I had a great weekend of birding in and around southern
Ontario.
Yesterday, Saturday we found the Harlequin Ducks at Ben Macree Park as
previously reported. We had to spend a couple of hours looking for them,
even though we had it on good authority they were the
Good afternoon Ontbirders.
It's not too often that I get to make a report so early in the day but
thanks to Stan Bajurny's and my successful morning in Minden we came home
early.
The day started out slowly as we checked out the Crabapple tree reported
in an earlier report and all we came up wi
Waterfowl watching was quite productive today on the St. Clair River. Many
birders were out today.
Thousands of ducks of at least 16 species were present from Fawn Island to
Sarnia.
Notables included:
4 Long-tailed (female) at Shell Oil Corunna
1 Am. Wigeon (male) at Lambton Generating Station (al
Too beautiful a day to not go out. A late morning start produced a
Northern Mockinbird and a PILEATED wp at the Bork Educational Centre
off Kirby Road just W of Huntington, along with the usual feeder-birds.
In a field South of Nashville just E of hwy 50 there was an adult
light-phase ROUGH-LE
Birders,
Dave Bracken sighting of a Great Blue Heron on ice locked Pelee Island
prompted me to go in search of this specie. I set out to frozen Hillman
Marsh to see what I could find and within minutes into my search I flushed 4
birds from a mixture of Cattails and Sedge type Grasses. Then ano
Barb Charlton just called to tell me that Rob Dobos had a flock of 120
Bohemian Waxwings eating fruit off of a tree in front of 6840 Gore Road in
Flamborough.
Directions from Hamilton
Take Hwy 6 North to Hwy 97 (RR597). Turn Left (west) on 97 and continue to
Hwy 52 (Cooper Road). Turn right (no
Ontbirders,
We have new information from a reliable source about the identity and
origin of Toronto's mystery falcon, which was seen in January. It is a
hybrid Gyrfalcon x Barbary Falcon. It is a juvenile female that escaped
while being moved to a transport crate for export.
It was first ide
Yesterday afternoon (Jan.31) I observed a mixed flock of Snow Buntings
(approx. 20) and Horned Larks (approx. 40) on the west side of
MacGillvray Road, about 3kms north of Rutherford Road. They were in
the field just north of (and across the road from) the farm that sits on
the east side of the r
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