A cornucopia of spring birds back on McEwen Rd east of Cobourg including WINTER WREN(singing), BLUEBIRDS, FOX SPARROWS (whistling!!), AMERICAN WOODCOCK at dusk doing their "peint" and then displaying, WOOD DUCKS on the wood pond yesterday morning and a BARRED OWL hunting the pond lawns at dusk. And a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK heading north. Also three WILD TURKEYS in a field.
And - Coltsfoot(yellow) in bloom and pussywillow out. At Last!!! mike johnston Cobourg [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIRECTIONS Woodcock near tree line well behind grey house at 1786 McEwen Rd 1/2 mi north of hwy 2 about 6 km east of Division St in Cobourg. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Apr 8 14:46:51 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts20.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.74]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CC0A638E9 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:46:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from brucedb4u2q8ov ([64.230.81.211]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.netESMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:56:35 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Bruce Di Labio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ontario birds" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:56:39 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Subject: [Ontbirds]Ottawa: Lesser Black-backed Gulls X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:46:51 -0000 Hi Everyone Today, April 8th I birded a few areas around Ottawa and recorded 5 adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls. One was off Britannia Pier in a mixed flock of Ring-billed, Herring, Great Black-backed and 3 Glaucous Gulls. The other 4 were in the area of the Trail Road Landfill Site and surrounding farm fields along Barnsdale and Moodie Drive. good birding Bruce Bruce Di Labio 400 Donald B. Munro Drive P.O.Box 538 Carp,Ontario,K0A 1L0 (613)839-4395 Home (613)715-2571 Cell Directions: From Ottawa take Hwy 417 west to Moodie Dr. and follow Moodie south approx 10 km. to Trail Road. Turn left on Trail Road. The landfill site is on your left. For the farm fields, continue south to Barnsdale Rd. Turn right and check fields. Remember, there is now access to the Trail Road Landfill Site. You have to bird from Trail Road. Di Labio Birding Website Courses and Field Trips http://www3.sympatico.ca/bruce.dilabio/
