Hi Ontbirders
Not feeling insane enough to venture to Chelmsford today, Mary Schuster and
I decided to head for Brantford in search of my nemesis, GRAY PARTRIDGE.
Bad road conditions and many accidents made it a long (arguably insane)
trip there and back, but we were successful! Nemesis conquered! We found 3
Partridges in the field west of the Bluebird Bus Lines lot, on the north
side of Colborne, as in previous posts on Jan 9 and 16. We parked on
MacGregor Avenue and set up our scopes near the end of MacGregor, looking
north across Colborne into the field. With the scopes at 60x we could see 3
birds hunkered down in the snow. One showing most of its back, the other
just their heads. Not easy to spot. Look for the "lumps of dirt" in the snow.
We also made a stop at Stoney Creek, thinking to look for eiders, but there
is ice and snow packed into the lake along the shoreline, extending far out
into the lake (at Van Wagner's Beach the pack ice extended out as far as
the wave tower), so any ducks were way out there, beyond id range.
Directions to the Partridges:
From highway 403 in Brantford, take highway 24 south (Rest Acres Rd). Turn
left on Colborne St. MacGregor Ave., runs off to the right just before you
get to the airport. The birds were in the field opposite MacGregor, beside
the bus lot.
Directions for the Eiders from Ken Williams prev post:
From QEW exit at hyway 20 and make sure to get on the North Service Rd.
(on the lake side of the QEW). Follow the service road east ujntil just
past the Grays Rd. overpass and make your first left. Follow that road
until the end (3 blocks) and turn right and the park is one block on your
left; you might try going back two blocks and try off of Grays Rd., or go
back on the service road and continue east to Greens road where they were
seen recently.
Good Birding
Carol
Carol Horner
dendroica at sympatico dot ca
Photo galleries at:
http://www.pbase.com/carolmhorner
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Hall's rd Whitby ont.Great Gray Owls and moor
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Excuse my spelling and Grammar, I am Dyslexic thank you.
I arrived at Hall's Rd. and met up with Doug this morning and yes he was
right the AM. Was slow and their wear not a lot of birds around , but as
the day went on it got better .
Highlights wear Rough-legged Hawks 2, Great Gray Owls 3, Bard Owl 1 ,
Great Horned Owl 1 , Saw whit Owl 1 , N. Harrier 1 , Red-tailed Hawks 2
Sharp Shin Hawk 1.
Their was also a report of a white Crowned Sparrow witch kept me coming
back again and again with no luck seeing it .
Over at Lindy showers the Red Belied woodpecker was seen and mobs of
killer chickadees I had 7 in my hand at one time.
Doug's detritions
Hall's Rd., from the west, exit the 401 at Salem Rd. (in Ajax), south to
Bayly, east through Lakeridge Rd. to the first street (Hall's Rd.)
Craig & Bev McLauchlan
Toronto, Ont, Canada the World
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Subject: [Ontbirds].Hawk Migration at Point Pelee
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The hawk flight today was quite impressive, considering the very late
date. I tried to watch most of the day from inside my house at Sturgeon
Creek, with the following totals seen:
Rough-legged Hawk -- 46
Red-tailed Hawk -- 4 (all adults)
Golden Eagle -- 1 adult (exactly what I was hoping for)
Bald Eagle -- 1 juvenile (right behind the Golden Eagle)
The only other hawks seen were two local individuals -- one juvenile
Red-tailed Hawk, and one juvenile Northern Harrier.
Just before sunset I dashed down to the Pelee Marsh Tower to boost the
Rough-legged Hawk count, but here I found only (7) more individuals
scattered around the marsh (I actually expected more).
But, the grand total of 53 birds for the day (46 + 7) set a new all-time
record count for Rough-legged Hawks within the Point Pelee Birding Area
-- the previous high count was 49.
Alan Wormington,
Leamington
