In cooperation with the Minnesota winter owl survey, Brian Moore and I toured the rural areas around Thunder Bay today and tallied 24 Great Gray Owls, 1 Northern Hawk Owl, and 6 Northern Shrikes.
This is a banner year for Great Grays in our area. Nick Escott 650 Alice Ave. Thunder Bay ON P7G 1W9 (807) 345-7122 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Dec 12 20:01:17 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts10.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.54]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDD899F599 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:01:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from tony ([67.70.31.178]) by tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with SMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:01:24 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Tony Beck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:16:15 -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 - Short-eared Owls X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 01:01:18 -0000 Hello Ontbirders After a successful "twitch" with Jeff's Boreal Owl in Constance Bay (still present at 3:00pm), we decided to drive south of Ottawa where we found one Short-eared Owl hunting over a scrubby field along Brophy Drive (between Twin Elm & 3rd Line). We later saw two Short-eared Owls hunting in a field along Earl Armstrong Road, northwest of the "S" curve. At a distance, 12 Turkeys perched in a tree, southwest of the "S" curve. As a bonus, we later saw a Great Horned Owl perched on top of a bare tree near the corner of River Road and Limebank. Cheerio Tony http://www3.sympatico.ca/beck.tony/ Directions to the Earl Armstrong Road 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. Directions to Brophy Drive: >From Highway 416 take exit 57 (Bankfield Road) west. Head southwest on Bankfield Road. Bankfield becomes Brophy at Moodie Drive. The Short-eared Owl was seen on the left (south) side of Brophy about half way between 3rd Line and Twin Elm.
