Man What an dumb mistake on the spelling, I guess i am out of
practice as i have not been doing a lot of birding over the last few
years. I figured today would be a great chance to introduce a few non
birders to wonders that we are blessed with this winter . I managed to
get six people to loose their owl virginity today and i hope the
memory's stick with them for a while.
On a less happy note i once again saw quite a few people getting to
close and spooking the birds today by trying to sneak up to them with
their point and shoot digicams but fourtunatly the owls seem to be
having a fair bit of hunting success. I wrote the Ottawa Citizen this
week to make a plea for people to give these birds the space and
respect they deserve and i am glad to say they published it today . I
hope quite a few of us birders take the time to explain to the new and
understandably enthusiastic newbies about just easy it is to do these
birds harm unintentionally.
I used to work at the local Wild Bird Care Center and was there
during the last major influx of GGO (initials are so much safer to
spell) and the condition that some of the birds that came into our
care where trully horrible, I can remeber a couple poor birds that had
a weight of under 500 g amd hematocrit levels so low that it was hard
to believe that they where still alive hopefully this time they are
getting enough food and the numbers starving will be much lower. So
far all the birds i have seen have apeared alert.
On a side not on a couple occasions just past the constance bay
turnoff on dunrobin road i acctually saw (fo me a first ) a couple
birds fighting quite agressivly for a prized perch with dive bombing
and what appeared to be some phisical contact and i was wondering if
anyone else had noted such behavior.
Mark Combellack
>From: Jean Iron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "wonkothesane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [Ontbirds]More Great Grey Owls in Ottawa
>Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:56:07 -0500
>
>Hi John,
>
>You must hold the second highest record for Great Gray Owls seen in
>one day with 43. Bruce Di Labio saw 46 a week or two ago. I saw my
>first Great Gray in 1966 near Carleton Place. Did you try to age
>them as first year or adult? Anyway, the real reason I'm writing is
>to encourage you to use the official spelling of Great Gray Owl.
>
>Happy owling,
>
>Ron Pittaway (I grew up in the Ottawa Valley)
>Minden and Toronto
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>
>At 08:35 PM 1/16/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>>Greetings all
>> Spent a pretty long day introducing some newbie birders to some
>>of the great grey owls around the west end and the numbers seemed
>>even higher than the last few days, The Kilmaurs side road area was
>>packed with owls with at least 19 birds including 12 visable at one
>>time just north of dunrobin rd on kilmaurs side rd. and there
>>seemed to be a few more birds spread out in other relativly nearby
>>areas including thomas dolan parkway on the carp ridge as well as
>>kinburn side rd. also a couple not far from dunrobin both on
>>dunrobin rd before the town as well as one not far from the osprey
>>nest platform furthur up thomas dolan. Of course a fair bit of
>>activity along the March Valley Road with at least 9 GGO present
>>this morning . Can't be sure but i think they are planning to
>>overthrow the goverment as i managed to see at least 43 GGO today
>>while traveling around the west end plus one snowy owl on rushmore
>>just east of eagleson .
>> Mark Combellack
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Very impressive numbers of large gulls remain on the Niagara River. From
Goat Island (above the falls on the NY side), we had 7 Lesser Black-backed
Gulls (all ages), 3-4 Iceland, and a possible Glaucous seen briefly. From
the Ontario Hydro Building (above the falls on Ontario side) we had a
sandpiper that the snowy conditions prevented firm identification of. I
thought it was a Purple Sandpiper but our friend, Dean DiTommaso, thought
the bill seemed a little long and too decurved, suggesting Dunlin. Our
study was shortened when the sandpiper dropped into a low spot and remained
out of sight.
Adam Beck (the power plants) was loaded with many roosting and flying gulls,
including about 25 Iceland, 1 Glaucous, 2-3 Lesser BBG's, a probable adult
Nelson's, and a second-winter Thayer's-type. No sign of the California
Gull, however.
An adult Little Gull was reported at Queenston but instead of going there,
we went to Port Dalhousie (a short distance west of Port Weller on Lake
Ontario) where we saw the reported Snowy Owl in the marina at the end of
Lighthouse Road.
Good birding!
Willie
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Betsy Potter
Wilson, NY
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