Beamer Conservation Area
Grimsby, Ontario, Canada
Daily Raptor Counts: Apr 12, 2008
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Black Vulture
Between waves of rain showers I barely managed a quick walk out the end
of the peninsula. Highlights included 6 Common Loons, 107 Red-necked Grebes
and 13 Horned Grebes ... also two Bonaparte's Gull flying nne about 100
meters offshore were accompanied by a Little Gull (all in breeding plumage
This afternoon I drove to the "Road Closed" sign on the 10th Line of
Bradford-West Gwillimbury east of Highway 11. In the wet field on the right
just past the last house going east there was a large gathering of waterfowl -
mostly Mallards and Can. Geese with smaller groups of Lesser Scaup, Blue
Oshawa Second Marsh April 12 6:30am-11:30am
Highlights
1 Drake Eurasian Wigeon foraging north of the GM platform near the leaning
Osprey tower 6:30 - 7:20am The marsh is quite high and alot of waterfowl
were foraging in the flooded cattails at the north end of the marsh. The
bird was in the
The weather can't make up its mind but the birds have decided it's spring.
Arrivals in the past 2 weeks include Sandhill Cranes, Great Blue Herons, Great
Egrets, Cormorants, Eastern Phoebe, Yellow-rumped Warblers, Eastern Bluebirds,
Tree and Barn Swallows.
If you feed the birds, it's time to p
Oblivious to the sounds of the construction of the new
Presqu'ile Marsh Boardwalk, just 30 feet away, two
male great egrets put on displays and battled for
territory on the edge of the marsh east of the main
park road on Thursday. Magnificent!
Construction will end shortly as the nesting season in
Hello Ontbirders,
For the past few days there has been a Fox Sparrow at my feeder in Carp.
good birding, Ben
Bruce Di Labio
400 Donald B. Munro Drive
P.O.Box 538
Carp,Ontario,K0A 1L0
(613)839-4395 Home (613)715-2571 Cell
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