At noon-hour on Dec.2 Charlie and I were walking with Jim Fairchild along the south pathway from Hall's Rd. when Jim heard the rapid chet-chet-chet of a White-winged Crossbill. We spent 15 minutes trying to find it among the conifer trees near Hall's Rd.--to no avail.
Patience will give you the imm. and/or adult N.SHRIKE, deer, pheasants and 2 or 3 different local raptors Hall's Rd. is accessed from Victoria St. in southwest Whitby, it being 1 short block east of Lakeridge Rd. Doug Lockrey, Whitby From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Dec 2 16:40:41 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts25.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.188]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 480BB63A24 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:40:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from [69.158.30.132] by tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.netESMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:52:19 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:52:20 -0500 From: Tim Foran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [email protected] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [0] Subject: [Ontbirds]Gyrfalcon X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 21:40:41 -0000 At approximately 16:10 hours today I was proceeding on foot eastbound, on the north side of Dupont Street, two blocks west of Bathurst St. An adult (or close to it) Gyrfalcon flew northwest, very low over my head. I was able to see that this was a buteo sized bird. And because of its low path it was easy to see the mascara and side burns, it had two tone wings which were unmistakably falcon, and a lightly streaky, slightly rouge breast. The rouge may have enhanced by the red from the impending sunset. Five minutes later the bird returned, flying southeast, thereby treating the neighbourhood to an aerial display, for about another five minutes. What a strong flier. Anyone who cared to look up must have been impressed. I lost sight of the bird as he headed east, close to Dupont St, some where around Spadina. Please let me know if have seen, or see this bird. T F From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Dec 3 11:01:31 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts46-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts46.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.190]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 024D864793 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 11:01:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from [209.226.175.82] ([209.226.175.148]) by tomts46-srv.bellnexxia.netSMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 11:13:16 -0500 X-Mailer: Openwave WebEngine, version 2.8.11 (webedge20-101-194-20030622) From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 11:13:16 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Originating-IP: [0] Subject: [Ontbirds]Sandhill Cranes/Burlington X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 16:01:31 -0000 On Friday Dec. 2 at 2:00 PM while driving I just happened to look up and spot a V formation of approximately 25 Sandhill Cranes. I was just south of the intersection of Guelph Line and Fairview St. and the birds were flying west, perhaps 200-300 feet in the air. Matt Graham Burlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] 905-639-4403
