[Ontbirds]Harris's Sparrow--Erie Beach, Chatham-Kent

2008-01-14 Thread Irene Woods
Birders: The Harris's Sparrow was quite active today again in the vicinity of the compost pile on Gore Rd.--directions below. It is less likely to be found actually eating from the grain piles, rather it prefers to forage either along the shrubby fenceline, going East, OR, I have always found it

[Ontbirds]Ottawa/Gatineau 14Jan08... Harlequin Duck, American Three-toedPartridge

2008-01-14 Thread Gordon Pringle
- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 14 January 2008 * ONOT0801.14 - Birds mentioned HARLEQUIN DUCK Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Common Merganser GRAY PARTRIDGE Ruffed Grouse Wild Turkey Bald Eagle Northern Goshawk Golden Eagle Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull AMERICAN THREE-TOE

[Ontbirds]Pine and Evening Grosbeaks - Peterborough area

2008-01-14 Thread Norman Murr
Good day all. This is a very late posting but I thought that some of you Grosbeak challenged birders may want to try for these birds. On Saturday ( Jan. 12th ) Ian Cannell and I among other places drove along County Road 6 northeast of Peterborough and Lakefield and between 4th Line Road N.

[Ontbirds]Presqu'ile Barrow's Goldeneye and Harlequin, St Weasel

2008-01-14 Thread Doug McRae
Greetings all, I went out to Gull Island today over lunchtime with Sarah Petrasek and we found the female Harlequin with a small party of Long-tailed Ducks swimming close to shore on the south side of the spit joining Owen Pt. to Gull Is., closest to Gull Island. We searched the south si

[Ontbirds] Pine and Evening Grosbeaks - Peterborough area - SECOND TRY

2008-01-14 Thread Norman Murr
Good day all. This is a very late posting but I thought that some of you Grosbeak challenged birders may want to try for these birds. On Saturday ( Jan. 12th ) Ian Cannell and I among other places drove along County Road 6 northeast of Peterborough and Lakefield and between 4th Line Road N.

[Ontbirds]Northern Mockingbird (Ottawa)

2008-01-14 Thread Brian Young
Hello, Lise and I visited the Northern Mockingbird, located behind Parkside Street, next to the railway track. The bird was right where it was described to be. It was over-seeing bird feeders in one of the back yards and would present itself every time a group of Northern Cardinals made an atte