Hey Everyone, As I was walking to the library at 7:45pm I saw an Osprey flying parallel to College Ave. I was crossing the College-Gordon Rd. intersection as I saw it flying quite low (about 80ft up). I got a really good look as the setting sun lit up its underparts quite well. I really don't know where it wight have been coming from or where it was going but it may have been on its way to the Eramosa River or prehaps Guelph Lake where they have been known to nest on platforms.
Directions(although it was just a fly over): from 401 take highway 6 ( 6 South) northwards until you reach U og Guelph in Guelph. From Hanlon Express(Highway 6 North) follow until you reach College and travel East until the Gordon-College intersection. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Apr 14 21:15:06 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from helios.kos.net (helios.kos.net [64.201.45.11]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7BFC63A86 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:15:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 32115 invoked from network); 15 Apr 2005 01:25:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO D3ZD7M31) (64.201.46.41) by helios.kos.net with SMTP; 15 Apr 2005 01:25:48 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Terry Sprague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ontbirds" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:25:50 -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]Quinte Area Bird Report for week ending April 14th X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:15:06 -0000 WEEKLY BIRD REPORT FROM PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY AND THE QUINTE AREA for the week ending Thursday, April 14, 2005 And the spring migration in Prince Edward County and the Quinte area continues. New arrivals during the week were SWAMP SPARROW in the Big Island Marsh on April 9th, and CHIPPING SPARROWS on Glenora Road on the 13th. New arrivals on Sprague Road during the week included an EASTERN TOWHEE this morning, WHITE-THROATED SPARROW on the 13th, and a FIELD SPARROW April 10th. Two FOX SPARROWS have been singing vigorously at the same location on Sprague Road every morning at 6:00 a.m. since the 9th. SAVANNAH SPARROWS arrived in a field behind a residence in Bloomfield on the 12th, and a report of two other arrivals three days earlier came in from Little Lake near Brighton. GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS are passing through the area in good numbers right now, and a few RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS have also been reported from Prince Edward Point, West Point (Sandbanks), and on Old Orchard Road in Albury. An additional EASTERN TOWHEE was at Prince Edward Point today, along with a few BARN SWALLOWS. YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERS were seen at West Point and at Prince Edward Point on the 1st and the 9th respectively. At the intersection of Bryant Road and Rednersville Road on the west side of the county, no fewer than 5 NORTHERN FLICKERS were found on the 10th, with additional sightings arriving from Glenora Road, South Bay (2), and Prince Edward Point. The flooded cornfields at Kaiser Crossroad are getting more and more disappointing as the season advances. However, at Bucknell's Slough on Wesley Acres Road, south of Bloomfield, on Wednesday, there was still a nice assortment of waterfowl including 112 CANADA GEESE, 30 MALLARDS, 20 NORTHERN PINTAILS, 15 AMERICAN WIGEON, 6 AMERICAN BLACKS, and 4 GREEN-WINGED TEAL. This coming week will likely be the final week of viewing for this popular site as it too is drying up quickly with the sunny weather. At Muscote Bay at the west end of Big Island, duck numbers remain good with COMMON GOLDENEYE, COMMON MERGANSERS, RING-NECKED DUCKS and HOODED MERGANSERS, along with a COMMON LOON still present. On a Prince Edward County Field Naturalists outing today to a creek at Cherry Valley, CANADA GEESE were tallied as well as a pair of WOOD DUCKS, 4 GREEN-WINGED TEAL and 8 HOODED MERGANSERS. Singles of PURPLE MARTINS continue to arrive in Prince Edward County at established areas, with one small colony settled in to a martin house at 1111 South Big Island Road, although days will need to warm up considerably before any nesting action begins. Elsewhere though in the county, spring hormones are in fine fettle despite the cool weather. A "Kinsey Report" submitted by an observer from Smith's Bay graphically described the antics of a pair of MOURNING DOVES in his back yard as they prepared to commence household chores. A WINTER WREN was found south of Carrying Place on the 9th, and others turned up the same day at Prince Edward Point, and another in Bloomfield. In general, spring stuff is arriving and without going into a lot of detail about dates and locations, it can be said that BROWN CREEPERS, BELTED KINGFISHERS, WILSON'S SNIPE, FIELD SPARROWS, PIED-BILLED GREBES, WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS and migrating HERMIT THRUSHES are now well established in the area. Several CHIPPING SPARROW sightings have also come in, along with DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS and CEDAR WAXWINGS. However there have been a few interesting sightings and dates along the way. A lingering NORTHERN SHRIKE was found at Carrying Place on the 9th, and a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE was reported from the Stirling area on April 11th. Two well described exceptionally early EASTERN KINGBIRDS inexplicably turned up April 12th at Rednersville, but haven't been seen since. Usually arriving in early May, there are similar early dates for the Kingston area from years past, and an even earlier date on record for Presqu'ile. Also early this week, was a GRAY CATBIRD that was happily singing from a lilac bush on Big Island on April 10th. Two NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWLS during the week were found in places other than normal habitat. An individual was found in a garage at Cressy during the week, and another turned up in a chimney in Belleville. And that's it for this week from Prince Edward County and the Quinte area. This week's report also appears at www.naturestuff.net (under BIRDING) where this week's featured photo is the NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL in the garage at Cressy, take by Paul Wallace. Our thanks to Lloyd Paul, Nick Quickert,Paul Wallace, Olive Root, Eric Mudd, Doris Lane, Gerry Watson, David Bree, Rae-O'Brien, Silvia Botnick, Henri Garand, Frank Artes & Carolyn Barnes, Nancy Fox, John & Margaret Moore, John Blaney, Brian Durell, John Charlton, Don Chisholm, Thomas Rymes, and Beth McPherson for their contributions to this week's report. This report will be updated on Thursday, April 21st. Bird sightings may be forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] at any time before the Thursday 6:00 p.m. deadline. Good spring birding everyone! Terry Sprague Picton, Ontario [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.naturestuff.net
