A female red bellied woodpecker has been feeding for 2 days at a farmhouse about 2 miles east of Tottenham .Tottenham is northwest of Toronto - north of Hwy 9 and east of Hwy 50 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jan 24 18:16:52 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from fep7.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 544F16349F for <[email protected]>; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:16:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from ANNE (d235-144-21.home1.cgocable.net [24.235.144.21]) by fep7.cogeco.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 6003616B5 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:17:10 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Anne Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:17:19 -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]Yes-Gray-crowned Rosy Finch near Chelmsford X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:16:52 -0000
Very early this morning (Monday, January 4) Jerry Ball and I headed north to Chelmsford to see the Gray-crowned Rosy Finch. Silly me, only looked at the forecast for Peterborough and Sudbury and didn't look at the weather forecast for Gravenhurst and Parry Sound so we left under clear, moonlite skies; drove through blinding snow squalls and whiteouts from Gravenhurst to just south of Sudbury, into the partial blue skies of Sudbury. We arrived at the Somerset's house at 9:30 to hear from a local birder (John Lemon of Lively) that the finch hadn't been seen this morning. John told us the first time he saw the finch he had to wait 2 hours. We waited till 10:30 when it finally appeared in the trees along the western edge of the property. Finally, it came to the feeder. After about 10 minutes, it left when a car drove by, flushing all of the birds. It didn't come back with the rest of the birds. We left in search of a Gryfalcon John reported in Sudbury but failed to find it. (He has seen it twice,- about a month apart. The last time being Sunday.) Other birds at the feeders included: Pine Grosbeak, Evening Grosbeak, Common Redpolls (no Hoaries) Black-capped Chickadees, Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers and one very nice Savannah Sparrow. The Savannah Sparrow came out to the feeder once briefly and then went back into the shrubs near the house. On the way home, we stopped in Omemee and easily found the Pied-billed Grebe and Hooded Merganser. Anne Anthony Peterborough mostly Pete's directions to Gray-crowned Rosy Finch When arriving at Sudbury, coming north on highway 69, take the "new" Trans-Canada Highway 17 Bypass west. (Southwest Bypass) From the Trans-Canada Highway 17 west of Sudbury, just past the Lively turn-off, take Highway 144 north to Chelmsford. Continue through lights (at highway 35) north on County Road 15 and follow it past a big curve until you get to Montee Principale, in a small cluster of homes. Turn left at intersection in Montee Principale (opposite direction from the Sudbury Downs Race track) and follow to the end, where it curves off to right onto Seguin. The feeders are at the first house, number 374. Name on beautiful mailbox is Somerset. Gryfalcon: >From the Southwest Sudbury Bypass turn north onto Southview drive (This is one east of Fielding and one west of Hwy 69) Southview goes along Kelly Lake and the falcon was seen hunting the ducks in the little bits of open water. One day it was seen sitting on the "blue" silo beneath the little "Eiffle Tower" Pied-billed Grebe (Omemee) Omemee is west of Peterborough on Hwy 7. Immediately to the west of the bridge over the Pigeon River on Hwy 7, turn south on Mill Street. There is a single lane bridge between Hwy 7 and the dam. Park near this bridge and look around the open bits of water between Hwy 7 and the dam. If it becomes mild again the grebe may goes a bit north of the brigde over Hwy 7 and access to river came be had from the boat launch one strret north of Hwy 7 or from the old railway bridge 2 streets north.
