[Ontbirds]Turkey Vulture /Innisfil

This afternoon I observed a Turkey Vulture feeding on a Road Killed Carcass of a Racoon. It was observed on the 5th Line of Innisfil, 1/2 a km East of the 20th Sideroad on the North Side. I was able to get some Pics as it was more intent on the Meal than my Car being stopped about 50 feet away!

[Ontbirds]Gyrfalcon Downtown Peterborough

I saw a massive flock of Rock Pigeons going crazy over downtown Peterborough this evening only to see a gray phase gyr launching itself off a massive maple and straight for them. I lost it in the chaos of wings and bodies so can't say forsure if it did catch a late supper. This is my first Gyr s

[Ontbirds] Hamilton Naturalists Club Birding Report - Friday, December 7th, 2007

On Friday, December 7th, 2007, this is the HNC Birding Report: HOUSE WREN BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER BOHEMIAN WAXWING Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Wild Turkey Pied-billed Grebe Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Red-shouldered Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle Great Hor

[Ontbirds]Ottawa: Barrow's Goldeneye

Hi everyone Spent the afternoon birding with my son Ben along the Ottawa River checking the remaining open water at Deschenes and Remic Rapids and along the Rideau River at the Rideau Tennis Club and Billings Bridge. Overall, it was rather quiet with lower numbers of goldeneyes than a few da

[Ontbirds]Pine Grosbeaks in Richmond Hill - Direction correction

Like a dummy I said that Oxford St. was east Of Yonge Street. It is WEST of Yonge Street. Never know I have been here for 33 years :>)) Thanks to Graham Leonard for drawing my attention to the error. Norm Murr Richmond Hill, ON "Sils mordent, mords les"

[Ontbirds]Summer Jobs for keen naturalists in Algonquin Park

---Posted with permission of Mark Cranford, ONTBIRDS mailing list coordinator--- Are you an enthusiastic naturalist in high school, college or university, and will you be at least 16 years old by next June? If so, you should know that Algonquin Provincial Park's Natural Heritage Education Progr

[Ontbirds]Pine Grosbeaks in Richmond Hill

For you local winter and other birders. Just a block from my home at 1pm I found 12 Pine Grosbeaks feeding in a Crab Apple Tree on Oxford Street in Richmond Hill. The tree is on the front lawn of the first house east of Yonge Street on the north side of Oxford Street. This tree looks like it c

[Ontbirds]2 Long-eared Owls and a short-eared

This morning there has been two Long-eared owls and a Short-eared Owl hunting a field west of Port Hope in the dim lighting. The three owls, there may be more are moving between two or three weedy fields that are sapced apart by corn fields so it does take some looking. As well, they are being

[Ontbirds]Kingston area birds to Dec. 7, 2007

The local winter listers have been out in force so there were a considerable number of sightings reported this week.Waterfowl highlights included 10 Hooded Mergansers, 2 Ruddy Ducks, a N. Shoveler, a Ring-necked Duck, and the Eurasian Wigeon still in Elevator Bay last weekend. There were 50 Tundra

[Ontbirds]Algonquin Park Update: 6 December 2007

Of all the lakes along Highway 60, only Smoke Lake has any open water now. At least one Northern Shrike has appeared almost daily this week at the Visitor Centre feeders. Two sightings of Northern Goshawk suggest that many stayed north, likely feeding on the large Ruffed Grouse population. The fo

[Ontbirds]Correction- Ottawa area raptor Dec 6th not a Goshawk

I wish to retract the Dec 6th report of a Northern Goshawk along Route 148 in the Eardley area of west Quebec. I have had three e-mails from birders who viewed my photos , all of the opinion the bird is a juvenile Bald Eagle. I apologize to anyone who may have been inconvienced due to the mistak