[Ontbirds] Fwd: Hamilton Naturalists Club Birding Report - Friday, March 20, 2009

On Friday, March 20th, 2009, this is the HNC Birding Report: Snow Goose Cackling Goose Canada Goose Tundra Swan Wood Duck American Wigeon Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal King Eider Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Sharp-shinned Hawk Northern Goshawk

[Ontbirds] Algonquin Park Birding Update: 19 March 2009

Here are some sightings from the past week: Merlin: One at Mew Lake on March 15. Wild Turkey: still two birds in Two Rivers area this week. This is the first known case of this species spending the winter in Algonquin. Spruce Grouse: Spruce Bog Boardwalk near register box, and Opeongo Road near

[Ontbirds] Eurasion Wigeon at Prequile P.P.

For those wanting to know, the Eurasion Wigeon discovered earlier this week by Clive Goodwin has reappeared (as of 10:00 am) just west of the Calf pasture where Lilac Lane and Bayshore Drive meet in Presquile Bay. Reporting for Bill Gilmour Mark Ansell Directions as per Fred Helleiner

[Ontbirds] Holland Landing - Waterfowl update

Heedless of the vernal equinox, Old Man Winter has reasserted himself in this area, refreezing the flooded fields that held such a bonanza of waterfowl earlier in the week.  The good news is that Hochreiter Road is now totally driveable; the bad news is that over two-thirds of the birds present

[Ontbirds] Kingston area birds to March 20, 2009

It has been the kind of week that brings in a few of the early migrants but there is enough of a nip in the air that some of the winter birds are hanging on. There are still a few Common Redpolls and several Pine Siskins visiting local feeders. The last Hoary Redpoll was in the city a week ago and

[Ontbirds] Ottawa - Eastern Bluebird

There was a male Eastern Bluebird on the eastern end of Earl Armstrong Road at 1:04 pm this afternoon (Friday), along the stretch of the road above the large pond. Earl Armstrong Road is south of the Ottawa International Airport. If you travel south on Riverside until it becomes Limebank (new

[Ontbirds] Brighton Wetland

Hi from the Brighton Wetlands I will be open on Sunday morning from 8 am to 10 am on Sunday March 22,2009 There will be a slight restriction to where you can go, the birds are flighty Cell 613-391-9142 Home 613-475-0881 keith.lee(at)sympatico.ca Directions: The Constructed Wetland is

[Ontbirds] Eastern Bluebirds. Ottawa

Further to the Ontbirds post of earlier today there are a pair of Bluebirds at the eastern end of Armstrong Rd in Ottawa as at 4.45 pm today. They are in the field east of the derelict farm on the north side. Good birding Michael Michael Tate 1-613-863-8455

[Ontbirds] Snow and Ross's Geese - Grand Bend

Hi all, There has been a significant build-up of this mixed flock over the past week. Today I estimated it at well over 200 birds with a third being blue morph birds. I saw at least 2 blue Ross's and 10+ white Ross's. To-day the flock took to the air from corn fields to the south,

[Ontbirds] York Region - Great Blue Heron - Barred Owl

My wife called me at work to say the Great Blue Herons are flying over the house again (Richmond Hill Leslie and Major Mac). We drove up to the York Center, Leslie North of Elgin Mills after dinner, the low sun provided fantastic lighting on the nesting Herons high in the leaf-less trees.