Today, 26 January, there was a flock of at least 500 snow buntings in
the field at Beare Road and Steeles Avenue E. Eleanor Beagan and Jean
Iron first told me about this good spot back in December.
Beare Road is east of Reesor Road, it runs south from Steeles Avenue
E, Scarborough.
Yesterday there were several thousand Crows at Mooney's Bay around
5pm. They were on the snow/ice of the Rideau River as well in many
of the trees across at the Moffat Farms Development. I have seen
gatherings like this but not on the surface here.
A Cooper's Hawk flew by but was ignored b
Hello Ontario Briders
Today, Saturday January 26th, we birded Wolfe Island. Birds of prey were
still plentiful with 46 Rough-legged Hawks, 3 Red-tailed Hawks, 1 Northern
Harrier, 8 American Kestrels, 6 Snowy Owls and 6 Northern Shirke (centrated
between 8th Line and 4th Line Roads). Near the
I spent two hours birding the Lake Ontario shoreline from St. Lawrence
Park to Saddington Park this afternoon. There were at least two, and
possibly three female Barrow's Goldeneye at the mouth of the Credit River
when there is line of shifting loose ice. Also there two Thayer's Gulls and
one
Following up on Ron Fleming's post this am, we trekked up to
Ravenshoe Rd this afternoon. Having seen a dozen or so red-tailed
hawks while driving up 404, we arrived at Ravenshoe and, while
cruising in, met another birding couple who were leaving and who had
seen one of the owls, near the w
I started this afternoon (Sat. Jan. 26) at the parking lots just south of
Fort Erie near the fort and worked my way up along the Niagara Parkway (CA) to
about Miller's Creek. I expected to make it to Niagara Falls, but the shear
magnitude of waterfowl all along that stretch amongst the ice
At 1400 hours today I came across 58-65 Turkey Vultures perched beside
Elcho Road in a small woodlot not far from Wellandport.
Directions. Wellandport lies south of Smithville at the intersection of
Canborough Road and Highway 27 (this road runs south of Bismark) .The
birds were on Elcho Roa
As far as I know, no one has seen the Greater White-fronted Geese in either
Port Hope harbour or Cobourg harbour today, Saturday Janusry 26.
Margaret Bain
Cobourg
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This morning I was joined by 18 birders for a pleasant morning of casual
birding in the Ottawa area. The weather was very pleasant with mostly clear
skies, no wind and temperatures around -8 degrees Celsius
We began west of Ottawa, along Huntmar Rd. where, just north of Highway 417, we
had a
At around 1:30 this afternoon, I spotted a Sharp-Shinned Hawk, perched low in
a tree at the entrance to a parking lot in front of an industrial Plaza on
Saint David St in Lindsay. I drove into the parking lot. turned around to have
a closer look and parked directly in front of the tree to get
This morning, after checking Ozark Pk., I re-located the ten Bohemian
Waxwings in a loose, large flock of Cedar Wawings and American Robins
on the north side of North Lake Rd. opposite #232. This was between
10:00 - 10:45 am.
The flock would periodically swoop down and feed in the junipers in
the
Mike Van den Tillaart and I had good luck with Snowy Owls today in the
Ravenshoe Road area just southwest of Keswick. We found three different
snowies between 8:30 - 9:30. The first of these was perched conspicuously on a
TV antenna on the north side of Ravenshoe Road. It was a fairly heavily
Spotted within the old Stoney Creek downtown core area.In the battlefield Park
area.
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Dave Rodgers
Stoney creek Ontario.
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