Re: [Ontbirds] Gyrfalcon South Lake Simcoe - update - possibility of a leucistic Red-tailed hawk

2014-04-03 Thread Paul Harpley
Update on Mount Albert area Raptor. I am advised there had been a past report of a leucistic Red-tailed hawk previously in the area. Dave Szmyr contacted me today and advised he had seen a similar large white raptor in the similar area back on January 15. He also saw it from a distance, but saw

[Ontbirds] Gyrfalcon South Lake Simcoe

2014-04-02 Thread Paul Harpley
Yesterday, (April 1) late afternoon I saw a Gyrfalcon (white phase bird) perched on the branch of a large maple tree overlooking the Vivian creek valley and surrounding farmfields and woodlots south of the hamlet of Mount Albert, in the Town of East Gwillimbury. Myself, and fellow birder Ian Hilto