Gidday Folks!! Well, just a short note to say that while I hope you have many more days enjoying the Great Grays throughout the south, as they feed on the obviously abundant supply of the voles they journeyed south for, I am nevertheless reporting that I have seen 2 this week after 3 months of no reported sightings here in the Hearst area.
I suspect that this may be the beginning of the return wave as they begin to pair up and head back north to breed. I (like I am sure many of you are as well) am anxious to see how this irruption will affect the upcoming Nocturnal Owl Surveys, and Breeding Bird Atlassing. Hearst is a small French Canadian community of 6000 located along TransCanada Highway #11, 6 hours north of North Bay and 6 hours east of Thunder Bay. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Mar 3 21:26:27 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from MAIL.NEXICOM.NET (mail2.nexicom.net [216.168.96.48]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A8EF63E0B for <[email protected]>; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 21:26:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from galaxydrifter (nexpm1-216-168-106-187.nexicom.net [216.168.106.187]) by MAIL.NEXICOM.NET (8.13.1/8.12.1) with SMTP id j242URNX018245 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 21:30:40 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Brian Shulist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 21:31:00 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:12:29 -0500 Subject: [Ontbirds]Bald Eagles Round Lake/Wilno area; Renfrew Cty X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 02:26:28 -0000 Hi all: I've been seeing an adult Bald Eagle soaring over the Round Lake area for the past 3 weeks now. Whether more than one bird is involved is unknown. First sighting over Wilno on Feb 10; the second on Feb 22 near Bonnechere; the third sighting this afternoon, March 3, at Round Lake. Round Lake is a well known winter deer yarding area that lures Algonquin's wolves out of the east side of the Park and this year is no exception. The Eagles are scouring the area for wolf kills and from what I've seen they are being rewarded with a few carcasses. Many Ravens and a few Gray Jays have been seen benefitting from the wolves left-overs. Brian Shulist R.R. #1 Wilno, ON K0J 2N0 spacecowboy at nexicom.net > Wilno is about 180 kms west of Ottawa on Highway 60; Round Lake can be reached by turning onto Simpson Pit Rd from Hwy 60 or taking Round Lake Rd. from Pembroke. The eagles could be anywhere in the area from day to day.<
