A trip to Lynde Shores and Halls Road today didn't start very well with no sign of either the Barred or GGO, everyone I met said the same thing " was seen this morning but not since". I almost gave up the hunt but decided to go back to Lynde Shores and give it one last go before returning home, good thing i decided to stay. The Barred Owl was on the bird trail out the back edge of the woods, I shared the sighting with a few other birders before calling it a good day and heading home. Also of note in Lynde Shores was a Red-bellied Woodpecker, Redwings, Grackle and Cowbirds. On Halls Road I spotted a Brown Creeper quietly circling a tree, otherwise all the expected winter species on hand.
>From Victoria St. in southwest Whitby, go south along either Lakeridge Rd. or, 1 block east, Hall's Rd. Lynde Shores is on Victoria just east of Halls Road. Good birding to one and all Ian Stanley Bramalea, Ontario From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Feb 19 20:19:19 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts13.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.34]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D75F6495E for <[email protected]>; Sat, 19 Feb 2005 20:19:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from brucedb4u2q8ov ([64.230.165.83]) by tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.netESMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Sat, 19 Feb 2005 20:21:33 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Bruce Di Labio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ontario birds" <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 20:21:40 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Ottawa: Great Gray Owl,Northern Hawk-Owl and others X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 01:19:19 -0000 Hi Everyone Spent the day birding the Ottawa area. The Northern Hawk-Owl was present this morning in the Gatineau Park along trail #5/#29. The was a cross country ski competition going on with a few hundred skiers which made the walking harder. A few flocks of Bohemian Waxwings were seen there and later in the day along Rifle Road off Carling Ave. We also saw 3 Northern Shrikes, 1 near Carling Ave. and Moodie Drive, 1 along March Valley Road and 1 along Woodroffe Ave.near Meadowlands Drive. There were 8 or 9 Great Gray Owls along March Valley Road and only 2 were seen in Dunrobin Road/Kilmaurs Road area. The flock Gray Partridge were still present near the corner of Moodie Drive and Brophy Road this afternoon. If you require additional information please email me privately. 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 or right. Follow along making numerous stops scanning the fields. Late afternoon to dusk maybe the better time to look.
