If you like little brown jobs (as I do) it was sparrow heaven at Little
River. I found a tremendous fallout of sparrows in a scrubby field east of
the Ganatchio Trail, adjacent to the site of construction of a new road. By
systematically working this field for about 2 hours, I eventually tallied 10
species of sparrows, including a nice Clay-colored. There were so many
sparrows present that I sometimes had 5 different species in view at a time,
all close together, and affording nice comparative studies, e.g.
Clay-colored versus Chipping, Chipping versus American Tree, Lincoln's
versus Swamp, and so on. There were many Fox Sparrows in this group, along
with an Orange-crowned Warbler and a female House Finch with an almost
entirely white head.
At 2:45, in the midst of all my fun, I was treated to great looks at an
adult female Rough-legged Hawk that suddenly appeared on the scene.
The Ganatchio Trail/Little River area is best accessed by driving east on
Little River Road from Lauzon, or taking Riverside Drive East and going
south on Riverdale to Little River Road. You can also walk north from
Tecumseh Road East up Penang and cross the VIA Rail tracks.
Randy Horvath, Windsor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
_________________________________________________________________
The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE*
http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
"Randy Horvath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm for information on leaving
and joining the list. As well as general information and content
guidelines.
