Hi Yall Sat. afternoon and Sun. afternoon Dec. 04th and 05th
There is a juvenile Northern Shrike on the 6th Concession of the old Colchester South Township. The bird is staying in a small area of scrub brush just west of the McCormick side road and west of lot number 6790. The 6th is located in Essex County. Take County Road 23 south out of the town of Essex turn west on the first road south of County Road 18 [the road to the sanitary landfill]. This is the 6th Concession; continue until the McCormick Sideroad goes south [approx 3.5 kilos]. Continue to just past lot 6790 .The shrike was on the north side of the road hunting in the short trees. It often flew to the west end of the brush and landed in top of the tall trees in west fence line. Gary and Dorothy Balkwill Kingsville [EMAIL PROTECTED] From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Dec 5 16:22:58 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts20.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.74]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 268CC4A178 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 16:22:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from tony ([67.70.30.95]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with SMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 16:26:31 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Tony Beck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 16:41:07 -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 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Subject: [Ontbirds]Ottawa - Snowy Owl X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:22:58 -0000 Hello Ontbirders An adult male Snowy Owl was observed this morning, in a field along Earl Armstrong Road. The bird was hunkered in a dirt field southwest of the "S" curve (near Bowesville Rd.). Other birds of interest today include an adult Bald Eagle flying west over Fallowfield Road. And, this evening, a Northern Shrike chasing an unidentified passerine over Dick Bell Park. Cheerio Tony http://www3.sympatico.ca/beck.tony/ Directions to the Snowy Owl courtesy of Neily World http://members.rogers.com/larry.neily/birding.htm : >From Highway 417 (The Queensway) take exit 121A (Bronson Avenue). Go SSE on Bronson for 3.6 km, crossing the Rideau River on the Dunbar Bridge and going over Riverside Drive, before bearing right to take the Brookfield Road exit. In 0.1 km merge right onto Brookfield Road and drive 0.5 km to Riverside Drive. Turn left onto Riverside Drive and go 5.9 km to Limebank Road on the left. Turn left or SSE onto Limebank and drive 5.0 km to Earl Armstrong Road. Turn left or ENE into the Earl Armstrong Road site.
