After my second futile attempt to see the Campbellville Hawk Owl this morning, I beat the back roads for consolation on my way home to Newmarket. Interesting sightings included 120 SNOW BUNTINGS just east of Heritage Road & Old School Line northeast of Georgetown, a light phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK near Hwys. 407 & 410, three WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS foraging with a group of chickadees and cardinals at the Humber Arboretum in northwest Toronto, a NORTHERN SHRIKE just west of Hwy. 27 on Major Mackenzie Drive in southwest Kleinburg, and a dark-phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKon the north side of the Nashville Road just east of Hwy. 50 (southeast of Bolton). Also had numerous Red-tailed Hawks (approx. 14) and two American Kestrels through the course of my travels.
Just north of King City I stopped to take a short stroll along the Oak Ridges Trail where it runs east from Keele Street and into the Seneca College property. No more than 60 metres down the trail I flushed a RUFFED GROUSE, then - about 100 metres further - I had a good look at a PILEATED WOODPECKER beating the heck out of a dead tree. Ron Fleming "Ronald J. Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
