Yet another Pacific Loon! At about 12:45 pm today (Mon. Nov. 1) I had a basic plumaged Pacific Loon on Lake Ontario off the west end of Confederation Park in Hamilton. The bird was about 300 m offshore and I had it in view for almost half an hour. It sat on the surface preening for about 15 minutes, then began diving and moving farther out. There were several Red-throated and Common Loons in the general area as well.
Directions: From the QEW highway in Hamilton, take the Hwy 20 (Centennial Parkway) exit; go north to the North Service Rd; turn left follow this road as it turns right towards the lake; just before it turns left onto Van Wagners Beach Dr, there is a parking lot for Confederation Park on the right side. Park here and view the lake from the shoreline. There is a self-serve parking fee for this lot. Note that Van Wagners Beach Dr a bit farther west is under construction and there may be delays when coming from the other direction. Rob Dobos Dundas, Ont. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Nov 1 15:35:20 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp101.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp101.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.79]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8092E4942D for <[email protected]>; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:35:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from unknown (HELO doug) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@24.112.18.37 with login) by smtp101.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Nov 2004 20:45:12 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Doug Lockrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ontbirds" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:46:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Subject: [Ontbirds] Golden Eagle, 3 Goshawks, Shrike, Siskins at Cranberry Raptor Watch--Nov.1/04 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 20:35:21 -0000 Monday, Nov.1's welcoming northwesterlies brought many observers and, over a period of 6 hours, 208 migrating raptors. As Dave Shirley left he proclaimed that we would have a GE!!--sure enough, at 1250 a juvenile Golden Eagle came through--we dubbed it "Dave's Eagle". It was a great day for close-ups of 3 N.Goshawks, along with 157 near and distant Red-taileds, 28 Rough-leggeds and a fast-moving Merlin. Our Rough-legged total has reached 139 (3 being Dark morphs). Other highlights were--many Pine Siskins, a Wilson's Snipe and a Northern Shrilke, along with a Red Admiral butterfly. I thank the 12 observers, with special kudos to Jean Iron and Mary Shuster for their keen eyes, along with Ron Pittaway's identifying expertise. Exit 401 at Salem, south to Bayly, east through LakeRidge to Hall's Rd., south to the second roadside parking area. Doug Lockrey, coordinator CMRW
