[Ontbirds] Common Eiders Bronte Harbour

12:30 p..m. Howard Davidson and I had a 1st year male and a female Common Eider straight out from the pier with a raft of scaup. Kevin Shackleton Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry device on the Bell network. Envoyé sans fil par mon terminal mobile BlackBerry sur le réseau de Bell.

[Ontbirds] Reliable flock of Wild Turkey- Paris

Near Paris there is a large flock of Wild Turkey that are staying in a field that seems to have had feed provided. About 20 birds have been there throughout the day for over a week. White-tailed Deer also show up, as well as various birds such as Snow Buntings. From the main street in Paris,

[Ontbirds] Harlan's hawk - Chatham-Kent

Hello. There has been an extremely dark morph red-tail/Harlan's hawk (I'm not wading into that debate - just noting the bird!) in Chatham-Kent for the past two days. The bird is almost entirely black and does not have streaking on its breast or throat area. The primaries are a striking

[Ontbirds] Pacific and Red-throated Loons - Leslie Street Spit - Toronto

Today I joined Ed O’Conner for a stroll on The Spit and though it was very quiet we did find a few nice birds. It was almost oven like down there :)). The Red-throated Loon along with 6 Horned Grebes were on the lake off Pipit Point and as Ed and I stopped to talk on our way off The Spit (along

[Ontbirds] Three King Eiders and a Snowy Owl at Bronte Harbour

We just came back from a walk to Bronte Harbour. Just offshore amongst bits of ice were three King Eiders. One was a young male. The two were females, one noticeably reddish. The three were often close together. Also present was the regular Snowy Owl, on “F” dock today. There is a nice

[Ontbirds] The Spit - Parking lot hours revision.

Paul Reeves has informed me that The Spit enclosed parking lot closes at 4:30 pm and not 6 pm as I said in my Loon post. This is important as you do not want your vehicle locked in for perhaps more than just a day as tomorrow is Sunday and during the week the Parks employees are not present

[Ontbirds] Common Eiders at Bronte. Examination of photos indicates they are King Eiders.

Mea culpa. The often reported King Eiders were at Bronte Harbour this morning, not the Common Eiders I reported earlier. Yours truly, Kevin Shackleton ___ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization.