This morning was a treat. I looked around in the Doane Road area that Ron Fleming had posted a couple of days ago and found eight Great Gray Owls within 5 minutes of each other. Four were on Doane Road, just east of 2nd Concession and four more were on 2nd Concession just north of Doane Road heading down the large hill towards Queensville Sideroad. Two of the owls along Doane Road were sparring with each other first thing in the morning while sitting side by side on two of the snowmobile trail marker poles on the south side of Doane Road. The other two were sitting, quite unconcerned by our presence, on fence posts along the north side of Doane Road. These two birds were still hunting successfully at 8:30 am when I had to finally leave. It's an easy location to find. From downtown Newmarket off Davis Drive, take Main Street north, past Mt. Albert St., where Main St. becomes 2nd Concession, then turn right (east) on Doane Road. They are all in the first 1-2 km. along Doane Road. If you continue going north on 2nd Concession past Doane Road and down the hill, one bird was at the bottom of the hill in the fields to the west while the other three were on both sides of 2nd Concession in the open fields just south of Queensville Sideroad. Wayne King
--------------------------------- Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mar 20 09:51:43 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.81]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D79963B58 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:51:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from unknown (HELO doug) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@24.112.18.37 with login) by smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Mar 2005 14:58:26 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Doug Lockrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ontbirds" <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:02:01 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Subject: [Ontbirds]Red-bellied Woodpecker, Barred Owl, Great Gray Owl, Snow Goose--Mar.19,20--Hall's Rd. X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 14:51:43 -0000 The numbers of Great Grays that elect to be seen are dwindling, but up to 4 are still being reported at various hours, particularly very early morning and near dusk in the fields along Shoal Pt. and Hall's Rds. On Mar.19 a large Snow Goose was noted in the field on the west side of Hall's Rd., with a number of Canadas. Barred Owls are being seen along Shoal Pt. Rd., in Lynde Shores C.A. bird feeder trail, and in the spruce trees near the bird feeder setup at the north pathway off Hall's Rd.--he took a vole on Mar. 19, and then took a "run" (er, fly) at a Red Squirrel in a nearby tree. The Red-bellied Woodpecker was enjoying the suet feder treats on both days. I have not saeen the Pileated for a few days, but his tentative apartment-home is quite a sight. The temp. rise on Mar.19 created a rapidly-flowing stream of water in the roadside ditch opposite the north path entry-- In mid-afternnon I had several looks at the Mink, both swimming in its current and exiting from the under-road culvert. Doug Lockrey, Whitby www.pickeringnaturalists.org
