While staying in Greely ([EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]) this past weekend, I took advantage of spending 4-6 hours each day, including some time near or after dusk, birding the greater Ottawa area in search of owls and other goodies. I am including only the generally area or areas of these observations in order to protect these owls from harassment, either deliberately or unintentionally... whch seems to becoming a major problem this winter ... do these people not realize why telephono lenses and binoculars were invented???? I thank Bob Jurmain for generously providing me follow-up information on his earlier reports on Ont.birds of Great Gray Owls west of Ottawa. ==================================================================== 7 January: W. Greely: Short-eared Owl/2 flying at dusk in fields west of town; Brookes Road [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Barred Owl/2 (repeatedly dive-bombed me when I made pishing noises!!! ... one obviously larger the other, a pair? ... already on breeding territory?... the owner of the house noted them first just before Xmas and one or or both have regularly hanging around the bird feeders); Black-backed Woodpecker/1 (also at feeders); Snowy Owl/[EMAIL PROTECTED] east of Perth; Great Horned Owl/1 on transmission line [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8 January: W. Greely: Northern Saw-whet Owl/1 perched post around bird feeders at dawn; Eastern Screech-Owl/1 sitting in hole of 'Woodpecker nest box' at noon approx. 100 meters from where the Saw-whet was seen earlier!; Sharp-shinned Hawk/1 flying north over field [EMAIL PROTECTED]; no raptors of any kind found in searchs of Beckett Creek Wildlife Sanctuary and Mer Bleue Bog (both e&[EMAIL PROTECTED], respectively). 9 January: Vance's and Kinburn side roads, Torbulton Road, Marathon, Baskin's Beach, Fitzroy Provinial Park (all [EMAIL PROTECTED]): Great Gray Owl/9 (only one of which was seen close to a major roadway-others adjacent to fields/pastures up to 200 m. back from roads or trails and visible only when scanning through binoculars); Snowy Owl/1 and Great Horned Owl/1 near Carp; Northern Goshawk/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Provincial Park.
Wayne Renaud From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jan 10 14:26:32 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from mail.velocity.net (mail.velocity.net [66.211.211.55]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E135CB306 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:26:32 -0500 (EST) X-AV-Checked: Mon Jan 10 14:27:11 2005 clean Received: from [127.0.0.1] (66-211-207-124.velocity.net [66.211.207.124]) by mail.velocity.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03212176B33 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:27:10 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:27:27 -0500 From: Ben Coulter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [email protected] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Ontbirds]King Eiders at Stoney Creek-yes X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:26:32 -0000 Hi all, I just returned from a very successful, albeit very short trip into Ontario with Mark Vass and Chris Knoll, both from Pittsburgh. I will not post details on most of the numerous birds seen, since there are already numerous posts on the status of these birds. However, I would like to add that yesterday afternoon (10/9) we refound one first-winter male and a total of six female King Eiders 200+ m out from Green Rd., in Stoney Creek. Five females and the male were staying together with an isolated raft of White-winged Scoters and Long-tailed Ducks, etc. almost straight out from shore, while the sixth female was on the extreme far left, close to shore. The adult male, unfortunately, was NOT seen, but there are many tens of thousands of ducks on the lake here, and we probably overlooked the adult. I'm sorry to the two women with the Husky/Malamute who were leaving just as we arrived. We found the birds only a couple of minutes after you left. Directions: From the QEW highway in Hamilton, take the Hwy. 20 (Centennial Parkway) exit, go north to the North Service Rd., turn right and go a km or so to either Grays Rd or Green Rd. Good birding, Ben Coulter Erie, PA
