Last night I heard my first Woodcock of the year (about an hour after you left Dennis). Northern Saw-whet Owls are migrating. Red-winged Blackbirds, Killdeer, Robins, Grackles have all arrived in the past week. There are still no Great Blue Herons on Chantry Island. Horned Lark and Snow Buntings are everywhere.
Snowy Owls are becoming very hard to locate. There are still several Great Gray Owls on the upper peninsula. Rough-legged hawks are becoming less common and Red-tails are on nests in some territories. Inland lakes are still frozen and Lake Huron is frozen far out from shore so it's difficult finding waterfowl on the lakes. Yesterday we watched 12 deer take a run about a half mile out onto the ice at Miramichi Bay, then turn north and parallel the shore. Very odd behaviour. Good birding, Cindy Cartwright Saugeen Shores From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Mar 26 18:24:45 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from pat.uio.no (pat.uio.no [129.240.130.16]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77EEF63C7F for <[email protected]>; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:24:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail-mx1.uio.no ([129.240.10.29] ident=[U2FsdGVkX1+MeX+HTKbK2bwdngde6otBYjxxatjUZ9c=]) by pat.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DFKlY-00027K-Gq for [email protected]; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 00:32:28 +0100 Received: from mail-web1.uio.no ([129.240.10.18] helo=webmail.uio.no) by mail-mx1.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DFKlT-00015j-U8 for [email protected]; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 00:32:23 +0100 Received: from d226-31-99.home.cgocable.net ([24.226.31.99]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user frodejac) by webmail.uio.no with HTTP; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 00:32:23 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 00:32:23 +0100 (CET) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.34, required 12, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82, AWL 1.30, NO_REAL_NAME 0.18) Subject: [Ontbirds]Amherst Island Birds March 26, 2005 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 23:24:45 -0000 Hi fellow Birders, Mary Stapleton and I birded Amherst Island this afternoon. Seeing great numbers (at least 5,000 during the day) of CANADA GEESE and three GREAT BLUE HERONS migrating over Kingston earlier in the morning, we thought maybe Amherst Island would be a good bet for this nice, sunny day. Meeting several disappointed birders not seeing any owls this morning, we were a bit pessimistic going in. However, in the woods we met a couple that had managed to find a BOREAL OWL and a few LONG-EARED OWLS in the Jack Pine plantation. After some time, we located the Boreal Owl as well as at least five Long-eared Owls. Someone also reported seeing a GREAT GRAY OWL in flight being chased by Crows this morning. I checked out a lot of the Goose flocks passing overhead, and was lucky enough to pick out a white-phase SNOW GOOSE in a flock of about 400 CANADA GEESE. Just a few hundred meters west of the southern road going in towards Owl Woods, by the address sign 2500, Mary spotted a GREAT HORNED OWL perching on a telephone line right by the roadside. That was an awesome sight! Other birds of interest today a MUTE SWAN, a pair of AMERICAN WIGEONS, two male REDHEADS, a NORTHERN HARRIER, many RED-TAILED HAWKS, 5-10 KILLDEERS, three HORNED LARKS, a few AM.TREE SPARROWS and a DARK-EYED JUNCO in Owl Woods, and finally hundreds of RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS and COMMON GRACKLES. Good Birding, Frode Jacobsen Kingston Directions To Amherst Island - Ontario Road Atlas, MapArt Publishing [Pg. 36, E54 & E55] Located 18 km. west of Kingston. Exit off Hwy. 401 at exit 593 (County Road 4, Camden East) and drive south to the very end (Millhaven). Turn right on Hwy. 33 and drive 100 metres until you see the sign for the Amherst Island ferry. The ferry (20 minute trip) leaves the mainland on the half hour and leaves the island on the hour. Cost is $5.00 Canadian round trip. There are no gas stations on the island. There are restrooms on the ferry, and at the island ferry dock. The East End K.F.N. property is at the easternmost part of the island on the east side of the Lower Forty Foot Road. To reach the Owl Woods, turn left (east) at the four-way stop sign by the general store and drive 3.4 kilometres along Front Road to the (seasonal) Marshall Forty-Foot Road. Marshall Forty-Foot Road is across the road from house #2320. Drive along Marshall Road to the mid-way point, where there is an "S" in the road (1.2 kilometres, look for the K.F.N. kiosk). Park in the gravel lane or off the road edge.
