Hello,
My wife, Lise and I spent Thursday birding Wolfe Island, the sun was out,
and temperatures were around -18 Celsius all day. We saw over 60 plus
Rough-legged Hawks, three Red-tailed Hawks, four Snowy Owls, one was a large
female, almost fully white with just a hint of a few brown
Until the big freeze yesterday the variety of waterfowl was quite good. A
Canvasback and 2 N. Pintails were on Wolfe Island a week ago as was a Ruddy
Duck in Elevator Bay. There were 2 Ring-necked Ducks at Treasure Island on
New YearÂ’s Day and a good number of Gadwall, Am. Wigeon, Hooded
Hi all,
Just an update on the snow goose. It seems like that it's a barnyard goose
of some type. The bird's a little too large and the beak and legs are too
pink. In addition, there's no evidence of black primary feathers.
Sorry for the ruffled feathers ;-).
Pete Scholtens
As before . . .
Hi Everyone
The Townsend's Solitaire was present today at 11:50 a.m. feeding on
juniper berries at 7 Millbrook Crescent. The tree is located at the north
end of the house and there are still lots of berries.
good birding, Bruce
Today Ray Geras, Terrie Smith and I had a second winter Golden Eagle at Conc.
10 Clarke at the entrance to Mosport Raceway.
We also had 50+ Pine Grosbeaks at Blair Rd and Conc. E where they have been
seen for several days now and a Hoary Redpoll in with about 75 Common Redpoll
at Blair Rd
Today Ken and I did the circuit from Hamilton to Port Burwell to kickstart
our year list (as it seems many people are doing!). Here is what we had:
Vinemount
Northern Hawk-Owl- the bird was in its usual area, we must have been there
too early to see any of the photographers harassing it, but
Hi all, this is more an FYI for other residents of the area of Toronto along
the southern Humber River and vicinity than a twitchable report, but I
thought I would post it anyway in that capacity. This afternoon, Friday
January 4th, I found 2 female (or 1st basic male?) Hoary Redpolls with a
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On Friday January 4th, 2008 this is the HNC birding report:
NORTHERN HAWK OWL
BOHEMIAN WAXWING
HOARY REDPOLL
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
King Eider
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Gray
Good evening all,
The covey of 6 Gray Partridge were still at the back of house #55 on Green
Rd today (Friday pm), just East of the Brantford Airport property.
Directions: Take Hwy 403 to Rest Acres Rd (Hwy 24), proceed South to
Robinson Rd, turn left (East) on Robinson Rd to Green Rd. At
Hi Birders,
The Northern Hawk Owl was present at around 2:00 PM when we got there.
We enjoyed watching and photographing the bird until somebody came with a bagful
of mice, passed us without a word , whom were patiently waiting, and started
luring the bird towards him.
It might not harm the
Hello Ont. Birders
Today just after 12.30pm. one of the local PEREGRINES launched from
the Bluewater Bridge and going into a very fast shallow dive, took a
Rock Dove (Domestic.) from the flock circling the water tower on the
Michigan side. After 'controlling' the pigeon it returned to under
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Dear Fellow Birders,
Birding the lakeshore of the area between Meaford and Collingwood
today turned up some decent birds for the area. Meaford Harbour turned
up the young Pied-billed Grebe that was first found on the CBC.
Bayview Park in Thornbury turned up 8 Greater Scaup, Hooded Merganser,
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