The Black-throated Warbler was relocated around noon today in High Park by Cheryl Edgecombe, Dave Don and Rob Dobos. Good work folks, many thanks. I saw it with others around 1pm. The bird was first seen just north of Colborne Lodge beside the road and parking area in a small group of Austrian Pine (3 trees). It crossed the road towards Grenadier Pond and foraged actively in mid to upper branches of leafless hardwoods. It seems to be moving about and can be located by a loud chip note similar to a Yellow-rumped Warbler (maybe closer to its relative Black-throated Green Warbler).
Also seen in same general area the White-eyed Vireo which remained with Chickadees at the bottom of the steps from the road to Grenadier Road just north of Cockburn Lodge. Earlier the male Wilson's Warbler provided reasonable views with effort in cattail marsh beside duck ponds in the south-east corner of High Park (Parkside and Queensway) 3 winter lifers Directions - two parking areas in the south end of High Park could be used. Best for Black-throated Gray Warbler and White-eyed Vireo is just north of Lodge on Colbourne Lodge Road access from both Lakeshore and Queensway. Drive north from Queensway in park and park where road becomes one-way south bound. Alternate parking good for Wilson's Warbler is the first left north of Lakeshore on Parkside. -- Mark Cranford cranford AT allstream DOT net Mississauga, Ontario From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Dec 11 20:22:28 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from mail2.kent.net (flame.kent.net [216.8.159.67]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 127539F1C3 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 11 Dec 2004 20:10:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from oemcomputer (dyn216-8-170-231.ADSL.mnsi.net [216.8.170.231]) by mail2.kent.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id iBBJ7xri031662 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 11 Dec 2004 14:08:01 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Blake A. Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 14:08:07 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=8.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on mail2.kent.net Subject: [Ontbirds]King Eiders still near Sarnia/Port Huron X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 01:22:29 -0000 Hi all, I observed two female KING EIDERS at the mouth of Lake Huron this morning. They stick fairly close to the Port Huron side and drift down into the river with the current. (They did drift into Canadian waters for a bit). We first observed a male and female November 11, then later another female joined those two. The last little while a single female was being seen. Now there are two females again! They seemed to be content in staying there. Two Common Loons were also feeding off Point Edward. There haven't been many sighted this fall compared to the past. There are lots of gulls in the area. Several hundred spend the night in Sarnia Bay. I observed these just as it was getting light this morning, so it was hard to tell what all was there. I did see one Glaucous (imm.) though. I did not come across a Snowy Owl there today, but I did have one south of Wallaceburg. There are a few diving ducks in the St. Clair River, but until it ever gets cold, there won't be many. A PEREGRINE FALCON (adult) swooped down in front of me on the St. Clair Parkway opposite Detroit Edison Power Plant (north of Sombra/Marine City). They have wintered at the power plant in the past. Directions to Point Edward waterworks: Find Front St. in Sarnia (along river in downtown) and follow it to its very north end,1.2 km from 402 overpass. Turn left onto Victoria Ave. and travel 1.1 km to Fort St. (right, north side). Go to end of street and you will see parking lot overlooking Lake Huron. Blake. ************************ The Mann's Wallaceburg, Chatham-Kent, Ont. boatmann AT kent DOT net
