Since there have been a lot of Turkey Vulture sightings yet I thought I'd mention that one was tilting its way unsteadily northward over Hwy. 10 and Mayfield Road today at 3:15 p.m. North of Bolton I pulled into the parking lot at John Dick Concrete (?) on the west side of Hwy. 50 to look back at a small falcon that turned out to be a Kestrel, but as I was getting back into my van I noticed seven Wild Turkeys walking in the field just south side of the main office building. Here is an ironic twist to a local photographer's owl-search today: After a polite request from a retired gentleman who wanted to christen his new digital camera (an anniversary gift from his wife today!) by taking a picture of one of the Great Gray Owls he'd been hearing about, I sent directions re: 2nd Concession in Holland Landing. This evening when I got back from the movies with my wife, this same amateur photographer had been kind enough to e-mail me a picture of an owl he'd photographed early this evening along Algonquin Court, which runs east from 2nd Concession. It was a very nice photo... of a Barred Owl! Ron Fleming, Newmarket From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Mar 17 22:10:52 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from web88006.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web88006.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.37.193]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C58663BB8 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:10:52 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from [70.24.83.31] by web88006.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:17:12 EST Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:17:12 -0500 (EST) From: RON FLEMING <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: OFO Bird Sightings <[email protected]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Correction re: turkey vultures X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 03:10:52 -0000
Sorry - the first line of my post was supposed to say "Since there have NOT been a lot of reports of Turkey Vultures..." Ron Fleming From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Mar 17 22:45:01 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.93]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D425648B5 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:45:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from sympatico.ca ([209.226.106.73]) by tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:51:21 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:46:24 -0500 From: Don Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ontbirds <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Ontbirds]Port Burwell to Fisherville X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 03:45:01 -0000 Started the day with overwintering White Throated Sparrows at Embro and drove south to Port Burwell. Seen on the west side of the harbour with access from Chatham Street were Northern Shrike, Killdeer, Pine Siskins, Song Sparrow, and adult Bald Eagle. Drove east along Lakeshore Line and found an American Robin on the east side of Clear Creek. There were 2 Killdeer at Brown's with a few Canada Geese. (5 Kildeer total for the day). There were an estimated 2000 Tundra Swans in two areas: first, north of Concession A, North of Lee Brown's at Port Royal and second, the field at the south -west corner of Highway 59 and County Road 42. Also at the south end and about the centre of field S-W of 59 and Cty Rd. 42 were 12 Sandhill Cranes. At the edge of the ice in the channel just north of the mouth of Big Creek were 3 Horned Grebes in winter plumage and 2 Coots as well as the Redhead, Greater Scaup, and Canvasback ducks and one Great Blue Heron. Dabbling ducks included Pintail, Mallards, and American Widgeon. Canada Geese were plentiful in many areas along the route. Raptors other than the Eagle, included Kestrel, Roughlegged, Red-tailed, Northern Harrier and Cooper's Hawk. At the Naticoke harbour of note were a Glaucous Gull and another Great Blue Heron. Ended the day with at least 8 Short Eared Owls at the Fisherville Owl Reserve. Directions: White Throated Sparrows at Feeder behind 315944, third road west of Oxford County Road 6 (Embro Road) and first house north of Oxford County 16 on 31st Line. (Also frequenting the feeder but not seen this morning before we left are Swamp Sparrow and Red Bellied Woodpeckers). Port Burwell is at the very south end of Highway 19 (south from Tillsonburg). The Pine Siskins and Song Sparrow were at a feeder, one block south of Bridge Street on Chatham St. (N-W corner within a cedar hedge and on roadside right of way), the Shrike was west of the gate of a closed Road into the Conservation area, almost to the waste treatment plant, further south on Chatham St., Killdeer was on the west wall of the harbour just east of where the boardwalk begins, and the Bald Eagle was seen soaring above the place where we were parked observing the feeder. Robin was at Clear Creek on S-E edge of village about 13 kms west of highway 59 on Haldimand - Norfolk (H - N) County Road 42. Swans were north of Lee Brown's; go west from Highway 59 on H - N 42 and from Brown's, go about 600m., more or less, further west and take the first road, West Quarter Line Road, north to Erie View, jog east 100m and they were on both sides of the road between Conc. A and the First Concession. Also big numbers in the field known as the Sinclair- Campbell project on S-W corner of Highway 59 and H -N County Road 42. Highway 59 is the main road to the causeway and Long Point. Big Creek is the open water under the first bridge, about 1km. south of the intersection of 59 and H - N County Road 42 on the causeway to Long Point. Nanticoke Harbour is between the Stelco/North Shore Steel Mill and Ontario Power Generation Naticoke Power Plant, one road west of H -N County Road 55 and as far south of the village of Nanticoke as one can drive. (Riverside Marine is on the east and Hoovers Marina is on the west at the end of the road.) The Owl Reserve is east of H-N County road 53 on Conc 6, (4 roads north of Selkirk, 2 roads south of Highway 3 and east of Jarvis. We parked just west of the sign) Don Campbell, Embro
