Visitors to the Viewing Day at Tiny Marsh on Saturday, April 16, were treated to a special visitor. A male PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was found on the dike trail along the drainage creek by RuthAnne Gale at about 11:30 a.m. It remained in the area for at least 2 hours and was viewed by many of us at a range of 10-15 meters.
The bird was feeding on insects on the dogwood shrubs and in small trees along the south bank, especially those over water in the drainage creek. Directions to Tiny Marsh Provincial Wildlife Area: (thanks to Ron Fleming for his post of April 14): Tiny Marsh is about a 20 minute drive northwest of Barrie and about 10 minutes east of Wasaga Beach. Exit Hwy. 400 at the Bayfield St. ramp in Barrie, then follow Bayfield northwest (left). Bayfield becomes County Road 27 (do not turn onto #26 west toward Stayner and Wasaga). Keep going north (straight). Take 27 north through the village of Elmvale, cross the little Wye River, then look for Simcoe Road 6 and turn west (left). The road quickly angles northward through the hamlet of Saurin. Go a short distance to 1st Conc., which is the Tiny-Flos Townline (a sign on the left indicates the way toting Marsh). Turn west (left) on the unpaved townline road and go 3.5 km to either the first parking lot on the right or another half km to the Interpretive Centre parking lot. >From the Interpretive Centre parking lot, cross the bridge toward the building >and turn right onto the dike trail and follow it about a half km east past the >next bridge. The bird was 40 paces east of that bridge along the drainage >creek on the right. If you park in the first lot, just cross the bridge which leads to the main cross-marsh dike, but turn right immediately onto the dike trail. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Apr 16 18:31:52 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.83]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86DA563B79 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:31:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unknown (HELO Bowles1) ([EMAIL PROTECTED] with login) by smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Apr 2005 22:42:53 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Bob Bowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ontario Birds" <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:42:47 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2739.300 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Prothonotary Warbler at Tiny Marsh X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:31:53 -0000 The Prothonotary Warble found by Ruthann Gale this morning at Tiny Marsh was still at the same location at 5:30 this evening. A number of us watched from the levee as it fed along the channel. This is the 7th record for Simcoe County for this species and the first since June, 1974. We have past the April 15th egg date and there are still 12 Great Gray Owls left in Simcoe County around Midland, Coldwater, Orillia, and Barrie. Bob Bowles Orillia, Ontario From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Apr 16 19:00:01 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp5.bellnordiq.ca (smtp5.bellnordiq.ca [142.217.217.34]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B01D640AB for <[email protected]>; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:00:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from yoursz6x6sefxo (209NTL226-89-251.nt.net [209.226.89.251]) by smtp5.bellnordiq.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id j3GNB0v4015178 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:11:01 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Marc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ontbirds" <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:10:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 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 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.49 on 192.168.150.25 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Hearst-sandhill cranes/winter wren/kinglets X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 23:00:01 -0000 Gidday Folks! With this warm beautiful weather continuing we have gone from winter to summer in just 2 weeks (yesterday it hit 19C). The snow has evaporated and the ice is out on many of the creeks and rivers and the lakes are not far behind. With no rain the water levels are presently down, and the dry conditions are starting to get the forest fire crews nervous. Right now we are about 2 weeks ahead of things, and the migrants are starting to sing their way back up to their favourite boreal forest nesting sites to feed on our always generous , and soon to awake, supply of black flies, and mosquitoes. The raptors have been flying in regularly this week with Northern harriers, rough-leggeds, red tails and many American kestrels now cruising many of the abandoned farmfields we have in the Hearst and Kapuskasing area. Yesterday afternoon the first sandhill cranes arrived and last night a winter wren was heard calling behind my house along Kendall creek. This afternoon a ruby crowned and a golden crowned kinklet was heard in the same location , which is 14 km. east of Hearst. Hearst is a small french Canadian community of 6000 along the northern TransCanada Hwy. #11, 6 hours east of Thunder Bay and 6 hours north of North Bay. Marc Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
