[Ontbirds]Eastern Ontario Birding

Hi everyone Just back from a quick visit to Amherst Island and Presqu'ile. Yesterday, I birded Amherst Island late in the afternoon and observed 15+ Long-eared and 1 Northern Saw-whet Owl in the "Owl Woods". I decided to stay until dark and it paid off! I observed 21 Short-eared Owls at

[Ontbirds] Eastern Ontario birding

Hi Everyone Spent the day birding various location in eastern Ontario. At Presqu'ile Provincial Park Doug McRae and I birded from Beach #1 to Owen Point and had very few shorebirds. The total was 13 Sanderling, 1 Least Sandpiper, 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper and 2 Spotted Sandpiper. The water lev

[Ontbirds] Eastern Ontario Birding today

The Greater Snow Geese have arrived at the Cobb's Lake flood plain just east of Bourget in Eastern Ontario. Today there were tens of thousands present, our count was a very conservative 30,000; I suspect many more were present. We picked out one Ross's there plus one each Golden and Bald Eagle.

[Ontbirds] Eastern Ontario birding: Snows, 5 Golden Eagles and a Gyrfalcon

Further to Brian Morin's posting of yesterday, large numbers of Greater and Lesser Snow Geese continue in Eastern Ontario. At Winchester, Paul and Michelle Martin and I saw several thousand Lesser Snow Geese, but this was eclipsed by a flock of several thousand Greaters near Chesterville (on the