Today between 11:00 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. I birded the Lynde Shores Conservation area and the greater Thickson Woods: target bird: BARRED OWL. I spent all my time while at Lyndes Shores doing the east walkways and meadows, including loop where bird feeders are, from the bridge down to the lake and intermediate fields: Great Horned Owl (2), Short-eared Owl (3), Great Gray Owl (1: in willows adjacent to marsh); Northern Saw-whet Owl (1: in dense pines sw of the center trail and adjacent to the corn field); Barred Owl (1-perched in dense tangle of willows on west side of loop); Merlin (1); Northern Harrier (2); Red-tailed Hawk (3); American Kestrel (1)// Thickson Woods/meadows on both sides of creek feeding into marsh east of Thickson woods; meadows at Thickson Point: Short-eared Owl (1); Great Gray Owl (7--four were in the Thickson Point meadows, only a part of which I covered); other goodies: Gray Catbird, Belted Kingfisher and Swamp Sparrow. There were two insensitive photographers harrassing a Great Gray Owl in the meadow opposite Thickson Woods entrance--and despite my remarks continued to chase the owl causing it flush at least three times until it was almost backed into house adjacent to the meadow. I think at some point warden's should be hired to fine these people ... or better, jail them!!!
Directions: Both these locations are technically in the town of Whitby which is just east of Ajax. Take the Thickson Wood's exit (#412) off the 401 then drive south until to you reach the parking lot at Thickson Point; to access Lynde Shoreshore Conservation area, follow Victoria Street which branches off Thickson road going west just south of the 401, Lynde Shore C.A. is approximately 12 km west of Thickson Road, with it's main parking lot abutting Victoria Street (access the west side of Lyde Shores C.A. and Cranberry Marsh by turning south on Halls Road, again off Victoria). Wayne Renaud From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jan 3 22:35:46 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from fep1.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFC49A01F5 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:34:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from ANNE (d235-144-21.home1.cgocable.net [24.235.144.21]) by fep1.cogeco.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 5EFE975C2 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:35:13 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Anne Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ONTBIRDS" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:35:17 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Subject: [Ontbirds]Harlequin Duck/ Red-throated Loon - Port Hope X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 03:35:47 -0000 Further to Margaret Bain's posting 3 Harlequin Ducks were seen early this morning by Tony Bigg and myself at Port Hope. They were on the east side of the breakwater that protects the Ganaraska River mouth. They were viewed from the beach. They were hidden from view some of the time, but did finally emerge from behind the rocks. In this area, there was also a Red-throated Loon further out. Margaret's directions: For Port Hope harbour, exit from Hwy.401 at Exit 461 as above but turn south, keeping south through all the traffic lights onto Victoria Street. Turn left, east, at the end of Victoria Street then keep right, down Dorset Street West to John Street where a right turn gets you to the yacht basin under the railway bridges. The river is just to the east and can be viewed from both shores. For the east breakwater / beach don't turn right at John Street but continue straight. turn left at the end and park. Anne Anthony Peterborough P.S. 2 Great Gray Owls on Airport Rd just south of Peterborough. One to the north of the airport and one just around the bend south of the airport. Exit Hwy 115 at Airport Rd and go south.
