Yesterday at Britannia Conservation Area at around 2pm we saw a Great Horned Owl, a Merlin and pileated woodpeckers. The Great Horned Owl was up high in a tall pine tree that was adjacent to another tree in which there was a nest.
Directions: Take Pinecrest Road (exit 129) off the Hwy 417. Go north on Pinecrest, then turn right(east) onto Richomond Road. After Richmond crosses Carling Avenue, turn left(north) onto Poulin Avenue. Poulin intersects with Britannia Road. Turning right onto Britannia Road will take you to Cassels Street. Britannia Road and Cassels Street form the BCA's western and norther boundaries. You can park anywhere along Cassels. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mar 13 12:38:38 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from m7.nyc.untd.com (m7.nyc.untd.com [64.136.22.70]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D75A563BBE for <[email protected]>; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 12:38:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from m7.nyc.untd.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by m7.nyc.untd.com with SMTP id AABBDJ89KAYZSC6S for <[email protected]> (sender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>); Sun, 13 Mar 2005 09:44:09 -0800 (PST) X-UNTD-OriginStamp: +I4zx4PQdguu3tHbbJmamvfkVAEfw20RTVP6Cj6cRP0WlSSvdwf0DQ=Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by m7.nyc.untd.com (jqueuemail) id KMY7A4VF; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 09:43:58 PST To: [email protected] Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 12:43:10 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Juno 4.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-1,6-7,11-12,15-19 X-Juno-Att: 0 X-Juno-RefParts: 0 From: Alan Wormington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-ContentStamp: 5:2:4243300821 Subject: [Ontbirds]Gyrfalcon at Hillman Marsh -- Caution X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:38:38 -0000 Everyone, I've heard a few stories of people thinking they have seen the Gyrfalcon at Hillman Marsh, when in fact they have been looking at something else including an adult male Northern Harrier. There is also a pale Red-tailed Hawk in the vicinity of NW Hillman Marsh, and this bird too has been "identified" as the Gyrfalcon. The real bird is uniformly coloured a dingy white, both above and below. I suppose if one got very close you could see that the dingyness was caused by fine black spots. But overall the bird looks white, a dingy white. The extreme tips of the wings are dark gray if not blackish. The bird's flight style is also characteristic -- more or less similar to a Pergrine Falcon. In full flight the bird is extremely fast, much faster than any Northern Harrier or Red-tailed Hawk. Alan Wormington, Leamington
