Ontbirders, Today at about 2:00 p.m. Winnie Poon discovered a juvenile Pacific Loon in Lake Ontario off Humber Bay Park West in Toronto. It was with an adult Red-throated Loon and six adult Common Loons.
Winnie contacted me to come and see these loons and I arrived about 2:45 p.m. We watched the juvenile Pacific Loon more or less continuously (at distances varying from 60 to 400 metres off shore) until about 4:35 p.m. A big thank you to Winnie for calling me to come and confirm this sighting. Directions: >From the corner of Parklawn Rd. and Lakeshore Rd. W. in Etobicoke, drive a short distance west until the entrance to Humber Bay Park West immediately to the west of the bridge over Mimico Creek. Turn south (left)into Humber Bay Park West and follow the road south to the lake past the parking lot of the Toronto Police Marine Unit. The road will curve right (west) at the lake. Follow around this curve and park in the first parking lot on the left. All eight loons were seen off the point beyond this parking lot. Glenn Coady [EMAIL PROTECTED] From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Nov 8 18:30:58 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from taiga.com (mugwump.taiga.com [68.165.54.133]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84923486C4 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 18:30:58 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 10878 invoked by uid 525); 8 Nov 2004 23:41:20 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 08 Nov 2004 06:11:20 -0400 Subject: [Ontbirds]HSR: SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark (08 Nov 2004) 373 Raptors X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 23:30:59 -0000 SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark Michigan, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 08, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Black Vulture 0 0 0 Turkey Vulture 61 1879 56496 Osprey 0 6 255 Bald Eagle 3 13 195 Northern Harrier 1 12 365 Sharp-shinned Hawk 10 97 6736 Cooper's Hawk 11 61 666 Northern Goshawk 2 25 46 Red-shouldered Hawk 56 315 967 Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 185382 Red-tailed Hawk 224 2284 7692 Rough-legged Hawk 4 51 112 Golden Eagle 1 60 93 American Kestrel 0 2 1007 Merlin 0 1 52 Peregrine Falcon 0 0 35 Unknown 0 0 0 Swainson's Hawk 0 0 2 Total: 373 4806 260101 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 09:00:00 Observation end time: 15:30:00 Total observation time: 6.5 hours Official Counter: Calvin Brennan Observers: Terry Angevine Weather: Today was sunny for the most part but with frequent cloudy periods, especially in the middle portions of the day. Winds were moderate west-northwest. Observations: Much of the flight was before noon, dropping off sharply in the afternoon. Certainly the flight was a bit lighter than expected particularly given the strong start to the day and what seemed like ideal conditions. Perhaps we are beginning our November wind down. As yesterday there were several large flocks of Tundra Swans that moved through the area as well as three Sandhill Cranes. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Calvin Brennan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SMRR- Lake Erie Metropark information may be found at: http://www.smrr.net/
