Excuse my spelling and Grammar, I am Dyslexic thank you. Amazingly their are still some great birds around the GTA even after the cold night's we have bin having. I started off at Downsview park wear I re found the Short-eared Owl out near the landing strip then will driving a long Rutherford Rd. and waiting for the lights to change at the corner of hwy #27 I watched a B. Kingfisher fly up the Humber river. I drove slowly up McGillivray Rd. and close to the end I saw a large flock of snow buntings with 2 Lapland Longspur's and 12 Horned Larks. Then down Hwy # 50 to the Clairville Field Centre, Wear it tuck some time but the E. Towhee did show up after a wile with 2 cardinals the birds around the feeder are skittish do to all the raptors in the area 1 RT Hawk, 1 sharp shin, 1 snow owl and a Shrike .also in with all the House finch wear 2 Purple Finch I then tuck a chance and went down to the lakeshore to the Rhododendron Park wear I re found the Pine Warbler along with the Chickadees over on the south east side of the park along the stream also seen hear wear 4 C Waxwing , 3 Robins and a winter wren in this area . Out in the lake wear 7 Trumpeter swans only 2 had tags and only one was readable # 748. Last I went over to the Lake side park which is found off lakeshore rd in with the large # of geese and ducks wear 1 Cackling Goose . So it wood seem that the cold dint push ever thing south. and a wide range to look at and four Craig Craig & Bev McLauchlan Toronto, Ont, Canada the World
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Dec 21 18:24:34 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from mail.interlinks.net (incoming.interlinks.net [209.5.77.1]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50DD9A0AAA for <[email protected]>; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:24:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from a4k8w5 (209-5-79-231.interlinks.net [209.5.79.231]) by mail.interlinks.net (8.12.9/8.12.8) with SMTP id iBLNNm2i043474; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:24:48 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Rayfield Pye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ontbirds" <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:18:21 -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 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Subject: [Ontbirds]Ivory Gull- Oshawa X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:24:34 -0000 Durham Rare Bird Line- special update Tuesday, December 21, 2004 Ivory Gull- 1 (1st winter) It was seen flying westward past Darlington Provincial Park at 9 AM. report from P Hogenbirk Directions: exit from the 401 at Courtice Road, east of Oshawa and go south to Darlington Park Road. Follow the road to the park. You will have to walk down to Lake Ontario, as the roads inside the park are closed for the season. Rayfield Pye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oshawa
