Presqu'ile Birding Report for Week Ending March 11, 2004.

2004-03-11 Thread Fred Helleiner
Mild weather has made for pleasant birding at Presqu'ile Provincial Park for the past week, and has resulted in a steady influx of waterfowl and other spring birds. The first migrant flocks of Canada Geese passed over the Park on March 10, and a number of flocks followed on the next morning.

HSR: Beamer Conservation Area (09 Mar 2004) Raptor counts (total=155)

2004-03-11 Thread reports
Beamer Conservation Area, Grimsby, ON Grimsby, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Mar 09, 2004 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Black Vult

HSR: Beamer Conservation Area (08 Mar 2004) Raptor counts (total=45)

2004-03-11 Thread reports
Beamer Conservation Area, Grimsby, ON Grimsby, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Mar 08, 2004 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Black Vult

Hamilton Naturalists Club Birding Report - March 11, 2004

2004-03-11 Thread Cheryl Edgecombe
At 5:00 p.m. on March 11, 2004, this is the Hamilton Naturalists Birding Report. BARROW'S GOLDENEYE EURASIAN WIDGEON * SNOW GOOSE SANDHILL CRANE GOLDEN EAGLE LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE BOHEMIAN WAXWING Tundra Swan Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Hooded Merganser White-winged scoter Turkey Vulture

Pair of Carolina Wrens at Rattray

2004-03-11 Thread Robert Laker
About noon today, two (presumably a pair) of Carolina Wrens popped around in some bushes just inside Old Poplar Rd. entrance to Rattray. Last year, a Carolina Wren was singing in the same area well into the summer. A couple of Redwings also there but not much else. Marsh is still frozen. Direct

WNY Dial-a-Bird 11 Mar 2004

2004-03-11 Thread David F. Suggs
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/11/2004 * NYBU0403.11 - Birds mentioned // Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTEC

Loggerhead shrike

2004-03-11 Thread Don Perks
To-day while birding the Milton area north I came across a loggerhead shrike.This bird was along the 3rd Line 300 yards south of the 15th.Sideroad 1 concession east of Speyside.I watched it for about 15 minutes using the scope from inside the car.It left when a school bus came by and I could not re

Snow Geese in Eastern Ontario - Soon

2004-03-11 Thread Brian . Morin
This would qualify as an alert rather than a sighting. A call today to the Montezuma National Wildlife Area in New York State, just south of Lake Ontario, yielded signs of encouragement for what may be a strong year in Eastern Ontario for Snow Geese. Later this month and in early to mid-April t

No Gr. White-fronted Goose-Peterborough

2004-03-11 Thread Anne Anthony
I checked the area around the cemetry and up and down the river for several kilometer for the Greater White-fronted Goose that was at Little Lake Cemetry yesterday and came up empty. Huge numbers of Red-winged Blackbirds singing. Robins everywhere. A few Bufflehead and Ring-necked Duck with the

Northern Goshawk in Windsor

2004-03-11 Thread Randy Horvath
Greetings everyone. At about 5:15 p.m. yesterday as I was walking home from the bus stop, I heard a crow squawk in a manner that made me think, "Raptor!" I looked up and, sure enough, there was an adult Northern Goshawk circling above one of the residential parking lots where I live, being hara