Hi Everyone
Today, February 6,2005 birded along the St.Lawrence River from Cornwall
to Prescott. Overall, only a few open areas of water with Common Goldeneye
being the commonest duck with approximately 750 and one male Barrow's
Goldeneye at Cornwall. Other uncommon waterfowl included 1 Bufflehead, 1
Hooded Mreganser and 5 Red-brested Merganser. A Northern Shrike was observed
hunting near the Saunders Generating Station in Cornwall. Very few gulls
were observed along the river, the most interesting being a !st winter
Iceland Gull at Prescott.
Earlier today, near Ste.Rose just east of Casselman/Hwy.417, 3 Snowy
Owls were observed along Con.20 & 19. Two different Song Sparrows were in
drainage ditches in the area.
In the Eagleson Road/Fallowfield Road area 4 Snowy Owls were observed
late afternoon. Both the March Valley Road and Kilmaurs Side Road/Dunrobin
Road had good numbers of Great Gray Owls late today.
good birding
Bruce
Bruce Di Labio
400 Donald B. Munro Drive
P.O.Box 538
Carp,Ontario,K0A 1L0
(613)839-4395 Home (613)715-2571 Cell
Di Labio Birding Website
Courses and Field Trips
http://www3.sympatico.ca/bruce.dilabio/
Directions: GGO/ From Ottawa travel west bound on Hwy. 417 to the March
Rd./Eagleson Road and exit right onto March Rd. Follow to Klondike Road and
turn right. Go east to March Valley Road and turn left. Follow along making
numerous stops scanning the fields. Late afternoon to dusk maybe the better
time to look.
GGO/From Ottawa travel west bound on Hwy. 417 to the March Rd./Eagleson Road
and exit right onto March Rd. Follow to Dunrobin Road and turn right
continuing northwest through Woodlawn. At the hill continue straight and
follow to next intersection which has a yellow flashing light.
Snowy Owl/From Ottawa take Hwy. 417 west to Eagleson/March Road exit. Turn
left on Eagleson and follow south to Fallowfield Road. Continue south along
Eagleson Road checking the open fields, fence posts and telephone poles.
Once you reach Richmond Road turn around and check again. There are a few
roads that intersect Eagleson that you can cover, Brownlee,Akins and
Rushmore roads.
