Hi All Today we saw a large number of Tundra Swans within the Park, in the Sanctuary Pond area. I would estimate a couple of thousand swans could be seen from the Marsh Boardwalk tower. Sanctuary pond is frozen but the edge of the pond to the east is open and that's where the swans were, Lake Pond. Tundra Swans were also seen in large numbers, in the late afternoon, north of the Park in the Hillman Marsh area flying to the south, possibly to the Lake Pond area. I estimate over 500 were seen flying south around 4:30-5pm. A really beautiful sight.
Also seen from the Tower were two Great Horned Owls in the willows directly north of the tower. Over the Marsh we saw an adult Northern Harrier, a juvie Northern Harrier and a Bald Eagle. No, I did not sight any other large pale raptors. Of other interest, off the west side of the tipless tip, a Black Scoter. Good Birding, Ellen Smout London, Ont. Hillman Marsh is located 5 km north of Point Pelee, kidding Mark. Directions: From Windsor take Highway #3 to Leamington. Take Oak Street approximately 7 km east of Leamington. The main entrance to Hillman Marsh is located on County Road 37 at the 2nd Concession Road. Please note: the road on the south side of the Marsh has been CLOSED since last fall and is still posted closed. Also of note Concession C, toward the lake, is down to one lane with giant evil cement squares in the lane on the north side. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mar 13 20:48:58 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from hotmail.com (bay104-f31.bay104.hotmail.com [65.54.175.41]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C1BC63FB5 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:48:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:54:40 -0800 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from 65.54.175.200 by by104fd.bay104.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:54:40 GMT X-Originating-IP: [65.54.175.200] X-Originating-Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "dave milsom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:54:40 +0000 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Mar 2005 01:54:40.0607 (UTC) FILETIME=[C909CEF0:01C52838] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Long Point Trip: March 19 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:48:59 -0000 OFO members are reminded of the Long Point outing next Saturday, March 19th. Meet George Pond at 9 am at the main parking lot of the St. William's Forestry Station on County Road #24 west of the intersection with County Road # 16. Possibilities include Tundra Swans in good numbers, many ducks, geese, gulls, icterids, Sandhill Cranes, raptors, Horned Larks, Lapland Longspurs, finches, woodpeckers. Dave Milsom OFO Field Trip Coordinator [EMAIL PROTECTED] References 1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mar 13 21:14:42 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts5.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.25]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0C7163CCB for <[email protected]>; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 21:14:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from personaldil636 ([64.230.107.120]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.netSMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 21:20:24 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Ott User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ontbirds" <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 21:20:23 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Great Grays and Snowy - Ottawa X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:14:42 -0000 Well, the Great Grays are still in the usually reported places around = the Ottawa area. On Saturday, March 12th I saw at least 4-5 Great Grays = around the Kilmaur/Dunrobin area. Saw another 4 Great Grays along March = Valley road in the late morning. Others on March Valley road told me = there were many more than that sighted Saturday morning. Heard numbers = from 8-12 sighted by others. The ones in the Kilmaur/Dunrobin area were = all sighted perched along the road, either on hydro poles or trees. Saw = at least 3 Great Grays in the Kilmaur/Dunrobin area Sunday. =20 Saw the earlier reported Snowy Owl on Saturday and Sunday. On both days = it was first spotted perched on the hydro pole at the corner of Akins = and Eagleson. That pole is not too high and one can get a very good = view of the owl. Saturday it was spotted on that corner at about 5pm = (weather overcast with some sunlight). Sunday it didn't show until = close to 5:30pm (sunny). From that pole it flys into the field = bordering Eagleson and Rushmore (if I recall the name of the street = correctly). =20 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mar 13 22:07:56 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from bayc1-pasmtp03.bayc1.hotmail.com (bayc1-pasmtp03.bayc1.hotmail.com [65.54.191.163]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91EB663DA6 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:07:56 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Originating-IP: [64.231.243.11] X-Originating-Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from userupirj7nxr2 ([64.231.243.11]) by bayc1-pasmtp03.bayc1.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:13:38 -0800 From: "Craig Mclauchlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:13:36 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Importance: Normal X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Mar 2005 03:13:39.0085 (UTC) FILETIME=[D1642BD0:01C52843] Subject: [Ontbirds]Tommy Thompson park ,Owls, Gulls and Scoter's 03-13-05 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 03:07:57 -0000 Excuse my spelling and Grammar, I am Dyslexic thank you. Today what started out to be a full day of birding ended up being just a really nice walk out on Tommy Thompson park ( aka. The Leslie st spit ) and a day full of winter birding in the dying days of it . Birds seen wear Glaucous Gull 3 , Ice land Gull 1 , Thayer gull 1 , Ring Billed gull 500+ , Black Scoter 1 , Surf Scoter 1 , Wight winged Scoter 24 , Kestrel 2 , Red Tailed Hawk 1 , and yes the Owls, Great Gray Owl 1 ( told of anther ) Boreal 1 , Saw-whet Owl 1 and we wear told that their had bin a Great Horned Owl flying around all day . But the nice thing was seen all the birders out enjoying the day and what the spit has to offer. Bev and I ran in to at lest 7 others that we had not seen for some time , it almost felt like being in Pelee in May . Tommy Thompson Park is found at the end of Leslie st south of the lake shore blvd. hear in Toronto and is fully open to the public only on weekends and holidays . Craig & Bev McLauchlan Toronto, Ont, Canada the World
