Hello everyone! We have some free time this weekend and are hoping to visit
the Ottawa and Kingston areas for some nice winter birding. I have a few
questions….
• I have seen several locations of Great Grey Owls reported in the Ottawa
area this winter…. Are there sites that are still m
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I saw the pine grosbeaks again this morning, they were munching happily on the
crabapples in the tree in my backyard.
Glenburnie, north of Kingston, near the corner of Unity Rd. and Hwy 10 (Perth
Rd.)
Rose-Marie Burke
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ONTBIRDS is presented by the
WEEKLY BIRD REPORT FROM PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY AND THE QUINTE AREA FOR THE WEEK
ENDING
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Increasing numbers of RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS at feeders this week, and sightings
of EASTERN BLUEBIRDS and the plethora this winter of AMERICAN ROBINS may get us
thinking optimisti
- RBA
* New York
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* 02/19/2009
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Summary of reported sightings this week:
Spruce Grouse: no reports.
Wild Turkey: Two along the highway between
Mew Lake and Centennial Ridges road this week.
Black-backed Woodpecker: female on Opeongo
Road on February 14.
Gray Jay: two on Opeongo Road at locked gate,
and 4 farther up the road.
Not only has the spring waterfowl migration begun in earnest at
Presqu'ile Provincial Park, but various other species of birds have also
been moving into and around the Park to a much greater extent than in
the past few weeks.
On February 13, the first three Trumpeter Swans of the season flew
Not mentioned in my previous report but always of interest at
Presqu'ile, where the species has been rare historically and uncommon in
the past year or two, were two House Sparrows, one at 85 Bayshore Road
on February 15 and the other at 186 Bayshore Road two days later. These
are the first at
From: Luc Fazio
To: ontbirds@hwcn.org
Sent: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 5:16 pm
Subject: Hoary Redpolls YES at Riverwood Park, Mississauga
Dan Salisbury and I birded Riverwood Park Today THURSDAY between 2 & 3 pm.
Amongst some 30 Common Redpolls at CHAPPELL House there were TWO Hoary Redpolls
( an adul
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