Hello all; I have not been on ontbirds this winter, so have not been following the Owl invasion. But I signed back on to make this posting.
Because we had a great siting yesterday. This afternoon, about 4:00 my wife and father saw a great grey owl fly into a spruce in our neighbours yard. It briefly landed, then flew up our street, right over their car. They are positive of the siting, as they have both seen a variety of owls. They clearly saw the round , stripped face and dark edges to the very long wings. It flew off to the west The sitting was at: 45 Hartfield Court Etobicoke Hartfield Court is west of Royal York Road ,not far west of the Humber river, just north of Dundas. Our part of the city is decently treed, with ravines and valleys. Our street, has had an owl before and a variety of hawk species. Have people seen these owls in the city before? Kevin Empey [EMAIL PROTECTED] From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Mar 5 09:45:45 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp100.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp100.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.78]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D92C63E25 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 09:45:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from unknown (HELO doug) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@24.112.18.37 with login) by smtp100.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Mar 2005 14:50:07 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Doug Lockrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ontbirds" <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 09:53:27 -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 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Subject: [Ontbirds]5 Great Grays on Shoal Pt. Rd. in Ajax--AM Mar.5 ; also Hawk Owl photo website here X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 14:45:45 -0000 Have "our" Great Grays of Hall's Rd.shifted allegiance! Thanks to Ron Stephenson -he reported GGOs on Shoal Pt. Rd. from sunup to after 8:30a.m. on Saturday, Mar.5. I caravaned cars over there, and we counted 5 perched and flying over the field to the immediate east of rthe road. There was also one, seen by Rayfield Pye, in the big subdivision to the east of Lynde Marsh. Now then, Arlene Brazeau has 2 superb photos of Welcome's N.Hawk Owl-- 1 showing how the bird responds to people who approach far too closely -- a caller asked for and received permission to post them-- http://b4.boards.boards2go/boards/board.cgi?/&user=muskoka I hope you can access it. If not email me. Exit 401 at Salem Rd., south to Bayly, then right/west (not east), to the 2nd traffic light-- Shoal Pt. Rd.-- south beyond the stop sign, keeping an eye on the trees and fields to the east. Doug Lockrey, Whitby
