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Today Margaret Bain and I birded Wolfe Island. Highlights: 10
short-eared owls between 4 and 4:30 pm on the south side of Highway 96
near 2nd line (just east of the "Ferry to Simcoe Island" sign). They
came from the north in a group at 4 o'clock (none were there earlier),
perhaps from a roost on Simcoe island; they were close enough to hear
repeatedly; 2 snowy owls on the 5th line between Baseline and Reed's Bay
Road ( the first one found by Jean Iron who phoned us - good one Jean);
28 rough-legged hawks! (10 dark morph, 16 light, 2 not distinguished -
both ends of island, but all the dark ones on the west end); 3 northern
shrikes; 4 kestrels; 6 redtails ( all on east end of island); 1
pheasant; 75+ turkeys; 3 eagles, all adults; a group of robins; a small
flight of snow buntings; 2 red foxes, 1 coyote, hundreds of white-tailed
deer. RP
