Thanks to John Haselmayer for directions to see the Great Gray Owl. Five members of the Bruce Birding Club went out this morning to see the owl and were successful in finding one owl. The Great Gray Owl was spotted on the north side of Warner Bay Rd. before you get to the house with fire #175. There is a bump sign on the road side and it was in this area where it was spotted. There are a lot of evergreens about 100 to 200 metres back off the road and it was perched in the trees to get out of the inclement weather. It was spotted with binoculars first and then we had good views of it through a scope surveying his domain. The weather then turned nasty and we hightailed it back to Southampton. Other birds seen on the trip were lots of Ravens, Crows and Starlings at the Tobermory dump.
Warner Bay road is approximately 3 kms south of Tobermory. There is a sign on Hwy. #6 for Warner Bay Rd. and Tobermory airport. Turn left and go west till you see the sign for Fire #175. The woods were on the right the north side of the road. Your in Birding Mike Pickup Chair, Huron Fringe Birding Festival HFBF runs from the 27th May to 5th June 2005 Please check Friends website www.friendsofmacgregorpark.org for Festival information starting in January 2005. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 7 14:39:57 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from toq4-srv.bellnexxia.net (toq4.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.24]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CD0E63BB6 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:39:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from b1styz37 ([64.229.16.145]) by tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 13:55:19 -0500 From: "George Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:01:29 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Importance: Normal Subject: [Ontbirds]Ruby-crowned Kinglet-Toronto X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 19:39:57 -0000 I was away for a month in Texas but was delighted to discover on my return March 4 that the suet had persisted and was still being attended by the kinglet First seen January 22, the bird shows up irregularly at the suet feeder at the rear of 89 Constance, Toronto (east side of High Park). New for my all-time March list! George Bryant (416) 762-7941
