Posting for "Dayna Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mark, can you take a look at this? I am new at this reporting thing and I hope this is ok (I checked the review list first) but I am excited right out of my gourd! Driving down Cataract Road in Pelham/Welland area today, I nearly put the car into the ditch when a flock of 5 Glossy Ibis flew overhead and landed in an open field beside the road. I drove up the driveway that was there and the people were very accomodating letting me follow the birds at a distance up the driveway and into the cornfield. >From St Catharines, take the 406 south to where it intersects with the 20 highway heading towards Welland. Head west on the 20 for about 3 kms and turn south again on Cataract Road. All along both sides are open fields with lot of gulls. The ibis flock was wandering between 20 highway and Port Robinson Road. It was about 4:30 in the afternoon that I saw them and they were mixed in with a large number of ring-billed gulls.
--- Mark Cranford ONTBIRDS Coordinator Mississauga, Ontario [EMAIL PROTECTED] 905 279 9576 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 3 18:58:23 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from fep1.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 815266477F for <[email protected]>; Tue, 3 May 2005 18:58:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mainoffice (d57-191-94.home.cgocable.net [24.57.191.94]) by fep1.cogeco.net (Postfix) with SMTP id A91BC8596 for <[email protected]>; Tue, 3 May 2005 19:12:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Cheryl Edgecombe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 19:12:11 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Subject: [Ontbirds] HNC Rare Bird Update - Black-backed Woodpecker still there! X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 22:58:23 -0000 Today another group of people were able to see and photograph this bird although it still remains deep in the woods. I am reposting the information from yesterday since this is the general area where the bird was seen yesterday. There appears to be evidence that this bird has been here for a while based on the number of trees which seem to be tapped. Good luck, The avocets and willets were not seen today. A group of birders refound the the Black-backed Woodpecker this morning as per the following post: >From the directions yesterday..... when you get to the large cement block, turn left. A sidetrial appears to the right after about 30-40m. Take this sidetrail heading south for about 300m when a side trail to the right appears. Take the side trail to the right and the bird was on a tree right on the path about 150-200m on, in the area where the trail bends substantially to the left. Obviously it can occur anywhere from where we saw it, north to the cement block. Good luck. Directions to Hyde Tract: >From Hamilton take the 403 to Hwy 6 North. Proceed north on Hwy 6 to Safari Road and then turn west on Safari. Before you get to Hyde Tract, there is a large marshy area on both sides of the road(approx 14-15km from Hwy 6) The parking lot to Hyde Tract is on the left hand side. If you hit Kikwall Road, you've gone too far. From the parking lot proceed along the main trail. This trail has a couple of smaller branches but stay to the right on the main trail past the house ruins and then onto the large cement block. Follow directions suggested above and listen carefully for the tapping.
