[Ontbirds] Holland Marsh Area- Jan.30- Snowy Owls, Snow Buntings, Lapland Longspur, Horned Larks

2009-01-30 Thread Siegmar Bodach
Late this afternoon I had the opportunity to take some time and check out the Holland Marsh area for Snowy Owls and other winter birds. At the horse ranch at the corner of Hwy.9 and Jane St. there were several hundred Snow Buntings feeding on the snowy fields amongst the horses. They were spread

[Ontbirds] Green Morph Pine Siskin - Richmond Hill - Fri Jan 30

2009-01-30 Thread Frank Pinilla
On the heels of Ron's note from yesterday, today (Fri Jan 30) I had a green morph Pine Siskin at my feeders. It seems to have arrived along with a massive increase in the number of Common Redpolls (high of 40 yesterday after the first ones arrived just 2 weeks ago), up to 100+ today! I've only ha

[Ontbirds] Ottawa Area: Great Gray Owls

2009-01-30 Thread Bruce Di Labio
Hi Everyone Late yesterday and this afternoon I had a total of 6 Great Gray Owls east of Dunrobin. There was a concentration of 3 owls along Greenland Road NW of Thomas Dolan Parkway, 2 along Vances Side road and one along March Valley Road. On a sad note, this afternoon I discovered the Boreal

[Ontbirds] Interesting birds at Burlington Ships Canal

2009-01-30 Thread Harold Stiver
Depending on wind, wave and ice conditions, the Burlington Ships Canal, often allows killer close up views of interesting winter species. When conditions are right, the canal can be filled with waterfowl. Some of interest are: Large numbers of LONG-TAILED DUCK in a wide variety of plumages.This s

[Ontbirds] Hamilton Naturalists Club Birding Report - Friday, January 30th, 2009

2009-01-30 Thread Cheryl Edgecombe
On Friday, January 30th, 2009 this is the HNC Birding Report: American Wigeon Ring-necked Duck Pied-billed Grebe Wild Turkey Red-throated Loon Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Merlin Peregrine Falcon Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Eastern Screech Owl Short-eared Owl Horne

[Ontbirds] Kingston area birds to Jan. 30, 2009

2009-01-30 Thread Peter & Jane Good
The good birds at Chaffey's Lock (Trumpeter Swan, Wood Duck and Green-winged Teal) prompted a group to check out the other lock stations between there and Kingston. They found a Hooded Merganser at Kingston Mills and a Belted Kingfisher at Upper Brewer's. Almost all the locks had Canada Geese, Am.