Re: [Ontbirds] Barrow's Goldeneye x Common Goldeneye hybrid

2015-03-02 Thread Chris Law
I received an ebird notification that a Barrows Goldeneye was reported by you along the Thames River on Springbank yesterday. Myself and a couple other birders attempted to twitch it this morning. Sadly the bird was not relocated and when we looked at ebird the report was retracted/removed. Needles

[Ontbirds] Barrow's Goldeneye x Common Goldeneye hybrid

2015-03-02 Thread Michael Vermue
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Good looks yesterday at 1530h and in better light today at 1215h. Displaying prominent rectangular white wing patches, today head iridescently purplish. Irregular face patch not consistent with Common and not the crescen

[Ontbirds] Snowy Owls - Ontario

2015-03-02 Thread Brian Morin
Birders might want to start checking for early signs of the return flight of Snowy Owls from the south, particularly along Lake Ontario and whenever the ice retreats from the north shore of Lake Erie. Inland areas of Southern Ontario where numerous birds were present in December may also do well by

[Ontbirds] white-winged crossbill

2015-03-02 Thread Eric Davis
This afternoon a white-winged crossbill spent some time at my feeder. I live outside of Woodville, in the City of Kawartha Lakes, half-way between Lindsay and Beaverton. Eric Davis ___ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the prov

[Ontbirds] Pair of Brown Creepers

2015-03-02 Thread Judy Kennedy
We live in Cameron, north of Lindsay, in a small, lakeside community on the west side of Sturgeon Lake. Occasionally. over the past couple of winters, we have seen a brown creeper feeding on insects on our maple and blue spruce trees in the front yard. But lately, a pair of these delightful lit