Hi All, The immature Franklin's Gull was present again this evening, Sept. 13, 2005, off the SW tip of Bate Island, off the Champlain Bridge in Ottawa, ON. This is its 4th day here, unusually long-staying for this species in Ottawa. Directions from the above link at NeilyWorld are as follows: From Highway 417 (The Queensway) take exit 123 (Island Park Drive) if travelling west, or exit 124 (Carling Avenue) if driving east. Using the Carling exit requires a bit of manouvring. Immediately upon exiting, in 250 metres, you will merge with Carling Avenue. As left turns are prohibited onto Merivale Road, which joins Island Park Drive, you will want to cross the traffic lanes and turn left onto Kirkwood Avenue and have only another scant 250 metres in which to do it. Be careful! Avoid rush hours, traffic can slow to a crawl, especially crossing the bridge to Quebec. Go NNW on Kirkwood for 1.2 km and turn right on Byron Avenue. Proceed 0.4 km ENE on Byron to the traffic light at Island Park Drive. Here you will join the route of those travelling west on the 417, who had only to exit onto Island Park Drive and go 0.9 km NNW along it to reach Byron. From Byron and Island Park continue NW along Island Park to the Champlain Bridge and part way across it, making a righthand turn onto Bate Island, 2.0 km from Byron Avenue. Cheers, Larry
Larry Neily, Ottawa, ON, Canada Visit NeilyWorld, its Birding Ottawa Guide and its 4000 Birding Links. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Sep 13 21:52:01 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp.vianet.ca (smtp.vianet.ca [209.91.128.40]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 162E963889 for <[email protected]>; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:52:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 8993 invoked from network); 14 Sep 2005 01:57:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?209.91.149.10?) (209.91.149.10) by smtp.vianet.ca with SMTP; 14 Sep 2005 01:57:52 -0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.0.2006 Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:43:28 -0400 From: Ron Tozer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ontbirds <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: [Ontbirds]OFO Convention 2005: Point Pelee X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 01:52:01 -0000 The great early fall birding potential of the Point Pelee, Hillman Marsh and Holiday Beach areas, especially in 2005, was reflected in the remarkable 163 species recorded on the OFO Annual Convention field trips during Saturday and Sunday, September 10 and 11. By comparison, the same locations produced 162 species at the 2001 convention (September 29 and 30) and 156 species at the 2003 convention (September 20 and 21). Of particular interest to the 204 registered convention participants were: Ross's Goose (at Jack Miner's, but not included in the species' total due to concern about wild status), Western Sandpiper (3), Buff-breasted Sandpiper (about 15 in onion fields), Red Phalarope (2), jaeger sp., Little Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull (3), and Sabine's Gull. Once again, on behalf of the OFO Board of Directors, I would like to thank all the trip leaders for their exceptional efforts to find birds and butterflies in very HOT weather: Allen Chartier, Bob Curry, Dave Don, Karl Konze, Dave Milsom, Henrietta O'Neill, Todd Pepper, Pete Read, and Alan Wormington. Thanks also to others who spotted birds and shared their expertise and telescopes, especially Jean Iron. It was a wonderful weekend! Ron Tozer 2005 OFO Convention Field Trip Leader Dwight, Ontario
