[Ontbirds] Hamilton Naturalists Club Birding Report - Sunday, December 29th, 2013

2013-12-29 Thread Cheryl Edgecombe
COMMON EIDER POMARINE JAEGER MARSH WREN Cackling Goose Tundra Swan Wood Duck Northern Shoveler Green-winged Teal Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup King Eider Black Scoter Common x Barrow's Goldeneye Ruddy Duck Horned Grebe Great Blue Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Bald Eagle Nor

[Ontbirds] Snowy Owl - P.I.A.

2013-12-29 Thread Max Perren
There is a Snowy Owl in the northeast corner of Toronto's Pearson International Airport. It is visible from Airport Road and it is in the field north of the active east-west runway. It was sitting on a cement block which was surrounded by tall grass. Pearson Airport is located at the intersection

[Ontbirds] King Eider Mississauga, Harlequin Etobicoke

2013-12-29 Thread Reuven Martin
A female king eider is present at the mouth of the credit river, feeding on zebra mussels with scaup right at the end of the concrete barrier on the east side of the river. Very close views can be obtained from this side of the river, but the walking is icy and precarious. Also present are a Peregr

[Ontbirds] FW: Brown-headed cowbird Near Kingston

2013-12-29 Thread Roger Lupton
From: roger.lup...@sympatico.ca To: birdalert@ontbirds.ca Subject: Brown-headed cowbird Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 14:27:44 + Hello Birders All; At 9 am today the female/immature brown-headed cowbird was standing atop our window feeder, peering in at me. As I reached for the camera it flew

[Ontbirds] Northern Goshawk, Snowy Owl - Leslie Street Spit

2013-12-29 Thread Mark K
The juvenile Northern Goshawk was perched very inconspicuously in a glade of trees on the south side of the road just past the last road into the nesting colonies, about 3/4 of the way down the spit. I would have walked right past it except another birder pointed it out to me. The Snowy Owl was

[Ontbirds] Northern mockingbird near Port Royal

2013-12-29 Thread Earthquest Canada
A Northern mockingbird was observed today near the corner of Lower Side Road and Norfolk County Road #23 at 3:51 pm. It was feeding on Multiflora rose hips along the side of the road. This seems to be a different bird than the one observed during the Otter Valley Naturalists CBC. Directions:

[Ontbirds] Alfred-Montebello CBC Results (10 Snowy Owls)

2013-12-29 Thread Christinetb5
The 8th Alfred-Montebello CBC was held December 26th. A light snow fell all day, at times limiting long distance visibility. Few open areas were found on the Ottawa and Nation Rivers. The 13 field observers and 3 feeder watchers counted 34 species and 2821 individual birds. This i