Hi Everyone
Today, October 3, 2004 I lead a field trip into Renfrew County. We first birded
Westmeath Provincial Park and after some hard searching we were rewarded with
excellent views of a Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow. Along the shoreline we
encountered a few flocks of American Pipits, Horned Larks and 1 Lapland
Longspur. The water level along the Ottawa River was low and there were 5
species of shorebirds, 2 Gr.Yellowlegs, 2 Pectoral Sandpiper, 1 Black-bellied
Plover, 1 Sanderling and 9 Dunlin. We had 1 Pine Siskin fly over calling.
Later in the day we birded Lake Dore and observed 1 adult winter plumage
Little Gull in a flock of Bonaparte's Gulls. The loon numbers were up with 108
Common Loon but few Horned and Red-necked Grebes due to the rough water
conditions. Interesting ducks including 9 White-winged Scoter and 8
Red-breasted Merganser.
good birding
Bruce
Di Labio Birding Website
Courses and Field Trips
http://www3.sympatico.ca/bruce.dilabio/
Bruce Di Labio
400 Donald B. Munro Drive
P.O.Box 538
Carp,Ontario,K0A 1L0
(613)839-4395 Home (613)715-2571 Cell
Directions: From Ottawa take Hwy. 17 north to the first Pembroke exit and
follow to County Road 21. Turn right and travel to County Road 12 and turn
left Follow to Sand Point Rd. and turn left and go to end of road for access
to the river. You can walk the beach east into Westmeath Provincial Park
checking the vegetation for the sparrow.
To reach Lake Dore, go north of Eganville on Hwy 41 for 5
km., then left on Point Church Rd. Drive along the road looking for clearing
along the
lake shore to view the water.
If you require any additional information, please email me privately.
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Subject: [Ontbirds]pine siskin, port hope
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Since everybody is reporting their pine siskins, I feel emboldened to
say that I too saw a pine siskin (I'm never confident of my IDs unless
other people are seeing them too), this one at my mother's niger feeder
on the west side of Port Hope on Saturday Oct. 2. My sister and my
mother saw it also.
Take the 401 to the western exit for Port Hope (there are only two) and
turn right onto Toronto Road (Highway 2). I'm afraid I can't invite you
to my mother's back yard, but Port Hope is pretty nice, and if you turn
right at the first traffic light, you can follow Rideout
Street/Lakeshore Road all the way to Newcastle, a drive that usually
yields good birds and has spectacular scenery.
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Kathryn Mills
Toronto
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