Eastern Phoebe-Eastern Meadowlark-Point Pelee

Birders Around noon yesterday March 9th at the marsh boardwalk entrance, Jim McCoy and I spotted a Eastern Phoebe. We then walked along the road to De Laurier trail seeing 30+ Robins, Brown Creepers, Red Bellied Woodpeckers and a Cedar Waxwing. In De Laurier trail we saw a Eastern Meadowlark. P

HSR: Beamer Conservation Area (10 Mar 2004) Raptor counts (total=199)

Beamer Conservation Area, Grimsby, ON Grimsby, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Mar 10, 2004 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Black Vult

HSR: Beamer Conservation Area (05 Mar 2004) Raptor counts (total=3)

Beamer Conservation Area, Grimsby, ON Grimsby, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Mar 05, 2004 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Black Vult

Etobicoke Peregrine Mating

The Peregrine pair from the east tower of the Clarica Centre (Bloor and Islington, Etobicoke) have been increasingly active around their nest box for the last two weeks. Today at 5:35PM we witnessed them mating on a ledge of the condominium building immediately to the east. Sandra and Bob Hawk

Eurasian Wigeon - Townsend; Peregrine - Brown's

On a birding foray to Long Point this morning - Dan Salisbury, Ron Scovell and I - saw an adult male Eurasian Wigeon among a group of Mallards, in the first lagoon at the Townsend Sewage Lagoons. Later, we had a Peregrine fly over Brown's Waterfowl Sanctuary near Long Point. Tundra Swans at Long

White-fronted Goose -Peterborough

Today, (found at noon) there has been a White-fronted Goose at the Little Lake Cemetery. I would call it a Greater White-fronted Goose but to quote Don Sutherland " It appeared much smaller in size than the associated CAGOs, a few of which were Giant's (i.e., maxima), had bright orange legs and fe

Arboretum Bird Workshops - ducks, warblers, cottage birds and more

Hi, everyone, This post was approved by Mark. The Arboretum, University of Guelph, has space in the following interactive bird workshops. For more details, please go to our website at www.uoguelph.ca/arboretum or e-mail me privately. Many Ontbirds members have benefitted from these workhops -

nesting season job opportunity

> AVIAN NEST BIOLOGISTS > (4-6 positions, 12 - 16 weeks @ $8.00/$15.00/hr depending on experience; aimed at persons under 30 years old) > > Field Assistants are needed to monitor the effects of forest harvesting > and/or housing on forest vegetation, salamanders, forest birds, and insects. > Prima