[Ontbirds]Hamilton Christmas Bird Count Report

These are the preliminary results from the Hamilton Naturalist's Club's annual Christmas Bird Count held on December 26, 2005. Many thanks to the 81 persons who took part either in the field or counted at their feeders. The day started off mild with temperatures hovering around the 0 - 1 de

[Ontbirds]Ottawa: Snowy Owls

Hi Everyone Did a quick late afternoon to dusk check for Snowy Owls along Eagleson Road near the town of Richmond and observed 5 individuals. good birding Bruce From Ottawa t

[Ontbirds]BLACK-HEADED GULL at Point Pelee

Greetings and Happy New Year to all. This morning I and my brother arrived at the tip of Point Pelee at 8:15 a.m. to find hundreds of gulls streaming north up the west beach. We decided to start scoping them right away from the tip parking lot rather than continue on to the extreme tip as we nor

[Ontbirds] Whitby-Jan.5,6--Bald Eagle, Great Blue Herons, trumpeter swans among others

The rains and mild temperature of Jan.4 and 5 brought out FROGS, mice and voles to the wetlands of Cranberry Marsh. An immature Bald Eagle was seen on Jan.5 at the foot of Hall's Rd. and again in the morning of Jan.6 near the wetland of the north pathway. Other raptors of late--Kestrel--Victoria