My wife and I spent Sunday and Monday in Canada touring some owl hot spots near northern New York where we live. We spent Sunday afternoon at Amherst Island and were rewarded with wonderful views of 2 Boreal and 2 Long-eared Owls in the 'owl woods' (one Boreal near the feeders and one in the southeast corner of the jack pine plantation, and both Long-ears in the south-central part of the jack pine plantation) and 2 Short-eared and a Snowy Owl at the KFN property. (Thanks Bruce Di Labio for your informative posts.) Monday in the drizzle we found 7 Great Gray Owls on Ile Bizard (on the island's perimeter roads, not in the park) near Montreal, along with 150+ Bohemian Waxwings and a Red-shouldered Hawk. At their usual haunt in Boucherville were a Boreal Owl and male Great-horned Owl; the resident Saw-whet Owl and female Great-horned Owl had not been seen there for a few days. A few images are posted beginning at http://www.masterimages.us/boow.html. Sincere apologies to an Ottawa area birder who was following us from Ile Bizard to the Boucherville site but who we lost at a busy highway off-ramp!
Larry Master Lake Placid, NY
