At around 2:30 p.m. several people including myself witnessed a lone Great Gray Owl in a tree near the firing ranges at Shirley's Bay - I stuck around and observed for about half an hour before setting off.
On David Manchester Road (4 p.m.) off Old Almonte Road, I observed a dark morph Rough-legged Hawk perched high up in a snag next to 1008 David Manchester - As I got closer, the hawk flew off in the field directly across the road where it perched again and soon I followed and it was off again. At the time I didn't know what it was until I looked it up online - second picture on this site. http://www.martinreid.com/buteos2.html Another Great Gray Owl was seen on Upper Dwyer Hill Rd. 4:20 p.m. at "Dream Fields" after Old Almonte Road. On Saturday, I drove to Algonquin Park for the wolves - I observed the following birds at the Visitor Centre and along Hwy 60: Pileated Woodpecker Black-Capped Chickadee's Lots of Blue Jays and a few Gray Jays Ravens Directions: GGO - Shirley's Bay Firing Range - Not sure the road - Sorry. GGO#2 - Upper Dwyer Hill West just before Hwy 7 - Dream Fields is a company. Dark Morph Rough-Legged Hawk - 1008 David Manchester Road off Old Almonte Road parallel to Hwy 17/417 Marc Gravel Orleans, Ontario From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Feb 27 21:06:04 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from bayc1-pasmtp03.bayc1.hotmail.com (bayc1-pasmtp03.bayc1.hotmail.com [65.54.191.163]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E356403D for <[email protected]>; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:06:03 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Originating-IP: [70.50.50.78] X-Originating-Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from user26e8f47460 ([70.50.50.78]) by bayc1-pasmtp03.bayc1.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:09:33 -0800 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Karl Egressy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ontbirds" <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:09:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01C51D10.A360F5D0" 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 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Feb 2005 02:09:33.0960 (UTC) FILETIME=[8BBC2880:01C51D3A] X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Algonquin Prov. Park Birds. X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 02:06:04 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C51D10.A360F5D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Birders, We spent the weekend up in Algonquin Park. Birding was good. The most productive spot was Opeongo Road, with the following birds: Pine Grosbeak (M) (1) Boreal Chickadee (1) White-winged Crossbill (30+) Rough Grouse (F) (1) Grey Jay (3) Blue Jay (30+) Next best spot was Spruce Bog Trail: Grey Jay (1) Black-backed Woodpecker (1) Blue Jay (30+) Raven (1) Mew Lake Campground: Red-breasted Nuthatch (3), Blue Jay, many. Along HW 60: many Ravens and a pair of Pine Grosbeaks. Mammals: Marten, (Mew Lake Campground), Beaver, along HW60 and White-tailed Dear. Apparently the Blue Jays are everywhere in huge numbers, so are Black-capped Chickadees. Local people said that they had never seen so many Blue Jays before. Cheers, Karl & Marienna Egressy www.kegressy.com ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C51D10.A360F5D0--
