In the continuing saga of this winter's owl eruption a Boreal payed a visit last night to my bird (and rodent!)-feeders in my front [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oakwood Av. N., Port Credit: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00 pm perched on ash branch in front [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oakwood (25' front front door where I was watching the owl from-Xmas lights on the tree helped illuminate the owl!); sat for 15+ minutes then pounced on a rat under the feeder and carried it over to the Scot's Pine; there until at least 12:30 a.m. but gone the next morning; used Sibley's to verify ... initially thought Saw-whet ... but darker and larger, verified with yellow bill. I did a short preliminary walk around the block and couldn't relocate the owl this morning ... we are in the middle of some major work on our studio and I would appeciate not looking for owl in MY yard because at the moment IT'S NOT HERE. The neighbors all known about my birding obsession ... so by all means feel free to ask them permission to check their back yards. Thanks for understanding.
Directions: Port Credit is 'Mississauga-on-the-Lake', at the end of Hwy. #10 (or Hurontario Street) at Lakeshore; Oakwood north is four block east of the intersection, and 9 Oakwood is second house North of Lakeshore (behind the brown apartment, then the red brick bungalow, then the stucco studio/garage which is front the stucco house where owl was seen). Wayne Renaud From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Dec 31 13:03:15 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from ccshst09.cs.uoguelph.ca (ccshst09.cs.uoguelph.ca [131.104.96.18]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28782A01D4 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:53:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from [131.104.101.126] (ppp101-26.net.uoguelph.ca [131.104.101.126]) iBVHsiAM011773 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:54:44 -0500 User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:53:39 -0500 From: Karl Konze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ONTBIRDS List <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.44 Subject: [Ontbirds]Great Gray Owls at Halls Road - Dec 29 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 18:03:16 -0000 Hi, Sorry for the late posting: For those keeping count of such things, I thought I should note that there were at least 4, possibly 5 Great Gray Owls at Halls Rd, Whitby on Wednesday December 29th. In addition, there were 2 Barred Owls present at the north trail to the marsh. Perhaps one of the two Barred Owls was one seen earlier at Lynde Shore Conservation Area. There was also 3 Rough-legged Hawks, one of which was a dark morph, and a adult male Northern Harrier. Good birding, Karl Konze Guelph, Ontario
