There were five King Eiders (3 1st year males & 2 females) directly off 50 Road at 3:00 pm today. Ronald Scovell From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Mar 5 18:29:41 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 877E964244 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:29:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from VALUED7B9600FA ([216.209.153.107]) by tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.netSMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:34:06 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Norm Murr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ONTBIRDS" <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:34:03 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Subject: [Ontbirds]GUlls, etc. on the Leslie St. Spit X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:29:42 -0000
Good evening Ontario birders. Today was another day of million miles of walking and a good day it turned out to be again. The Ring-billed Gulls are streaming back with approx. 20,000 birds on the ice off of the breeding grounds and on the Lake. Last weekend there were just a few hundred of them. They seemed to have brought a few friends with them as the Herring Gull numbers have jumped to the hundreds along with 19 Glaucous, 6 Iceland, 2 Thayer's and 3 Adult Lesser black-backed Gulls. I am sure there are more of the above out there but I did not have a scope with me. Most were at the ice edges off the end of the road in the Lighthouse and Peninsula A areas. I had 11 immature Glaucous Gulls in view at one time. The Great black-backed Gull numbers were not impressive for the spit. Also seen were Common Redpoll, Snow Bunting, 112 White-winged Scoters, 1 adult and 1 juvenile N. Goshawk at a Rabbit kill at the end of the road. (Some birders reported these as Peregrine Falcons). And not to forget a few Owls, 2 Great Gray, 1 Great Horned, 1 N. Saw-Whet & 1 Boreal and again a bunch of the expected waterfowl including both Scaup and for the second weekend in a row I was told about a Northern Shrike on the base of the spit. Norm Murr Richmond Hill,ON [EMAIL PROTECTED] Directions: LESLIE STREET SPIT (TOMMY THOMPSON PARK) IN TORONTO To get to "The Spit" from Queen & Yonge Sts. Take the Queen Street Car #501 east to Leslie St. and walk south (about 2 km) or as far as you can go on Leslie St. at Unwin Ave. and you will see the gate and signage. You may also catch the Jones Bus #83 at the Donlands Subway Station or transfer to it at Queen St. and Jones Ave. and take it to Leslie St. And Commissioner St. (on Saturday only). By automobile you may drive to Lakeshore Blvd and Leslie St. then south to The Spit. The parking lot inside the gate is not open so you will have to park either on Leslie St. or Unwin Ave. just outside the gate. These are legal parking areas BUT be sure to lock your vehicle and leave nothing of value in view. --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Eliminate annoying spam! My mailbox is protected by iHateSpam, the #1-rated spam buster." http://www.ihatespam.net
