2 Great Grays - Audley Road and west of Newcastle on Lakeshore Rd. 2 Barred Owls- Hall's Road/Lynde Shores 1 Saw-whet - Hall's Road area 32 Red-winged Blackbirds - some singing! were some possibly migrants? Also cardinals and House Finches in song - won't be long now!
Hall's Rd is east of Salem Rd [exit south from 401] and south of Bayly Rd. Lynde Shores - continue east on Bayly from Hall's Road to Lynde Shores Conservation Area on your right. Lakeshore Rd. - exit 401 at Mill St. and go south to the lake and then east. Geoff Carpentier Ajax, Ontario From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Feb 5 19:16:48 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.82]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84698CA42A for <[email protected]>; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 19:16:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from unknown (HELO ?24.112.18.37?) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@24.112.18.37 with login) by smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Feb 2005 00:17:20 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 (AVG SMTP 7.0.300 [265.8.5]); Sat, 05 Feb 2005 19:19:09 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Doug Lockrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ontbirds" <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 19:19:08 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [Ontbirds] Feb.5 fog on Hall's Rd., but Barred Owl, Pileated & Red-bellied Woodpeckers among good birds X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 00:16:49 -0000 In spite of very foggy environs all day on Feb.5 the many visitors from around Ontario and 5 US states were rewarded with superb looks at a Barred Owl and both male & female Pileated Woodpeckers, the latter being between 9AM and 2PM. The Barred flew low through onlookers several times, and he had 2 successful vole catches. Great Gray Owls were found in various locales in the Lynde Shores C.A., and then towards dusk over on Lakeridge Rd. A Long-eared Owl was heard along the south path off Hall's Rd. Other birds included--Red-bellied Woodpecker, Brown Creeper, Swamp Sparrow, Song Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, House Finch, Am. Robins, 3 Rusty Blackbirds, winter male and female Red-winged Blackbirds, several Immature male RWBBs, N.Shrike, Red-tailed Hawk, Sharp-shinned Hawk. Hall's Rd. runs south from Victoria St. in southwest Whitby. Doug Lockrey, Whitby -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 03/02/2005
