Many birds were hunkered in on this cold Dec.3 AM. Nonetheless several of us had great looks at a male Wood Duck and an American Coot in the Lynde Creek right at the bridge from the Lynde Shores CA parking area. Among raptors reported in the area--Merlin, Kestrel, Cooper's, Red-tailed and 1 Rough-legged, the latter seen flying and hovering over the fields to the south of the Lynde bird-feeder woodlot. Both the adult and immature N.Shrike were seen to the east and west of Hall's Rd., at various times in the late AM and early afternoon.
The Lynde Shores CA is 0.5km. east of Hall's Rd., accessed from Victoria St. in southwest Whitby. Doug Lockrey, Whitby From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Dec 3 14:14:25 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from web88011.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web88011.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.37.230]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7556B640B4 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 14:14:25 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 94809 invoked by uid 60001); 3 Dec 2005 19:26:11 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=eWOjnLpSE8B120cd+KVTbEncQ4VghgC91EBKndkCWbA3Tv2nQMd1R7+uqlvpn8+jC+xMT3T1Se9b8fNAmpSclrtno6qj3u+yTT27dQGylGT+Cl+Inaj7/kWz0+rDJw/4G0ob+VBZH67NJr/vV8G1MarR+Kd5YFaFbOStZgwvAZU ; Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from [70.29.34.81] by web88011.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 03 Dec 2005 14:26:11 EST Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 14:26:11 -0500 (EST) From: RON FLEMING <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: OFO Bird Sightings <[email protected]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Golden Eagle, Newmarket X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 19:14:25 -0000 Though not as melodic as the song "Ebony & Ivory", Serendipity and Irony can also create harmony in a birder's life. The irony today was that I had resigned myself to a relatively birdless Saturday due to fact that I had to drive my daughter to Kleinberg. Serendipity came in the form of a big dark bird that rose up in a long-winged dihedral from behind a coniferous ridge on the southwest side of Mulock & Bathurst Streets as I was leaving Newmarket around 9:45 a.m. To the chagrin of my wife and daughter, I pulled over and jumped out of the van yelling "Hey! A late Turkey Vulture: nice date rarity!" But as soon as I got my binoculars on the bird I realized I was wrong; it was a 2nd year Golden Eagle! The bird mades its way westward over the heavily treed section of the Oak Ridges moraine known as Joker's Hill and was soon lost from view. As of Dec. 1st I had resigned myself to missing this species in the autumn raptor migration of 2005. If there is any moral to the story it might be this: Keep your binos in the car, 'cause they might keep you from singing the blues. After dropping Ally off I did a quick circuit of the back roads around Kleinburg and observed 9 Red-tailed Hawks, 3 American Kestrels, a Northern Shrike (MacGillvray Rd. north of Rutherford) and a Northern Mockingbird (Teston Rd. east of Kipling). Ron Fleming, Newmarket Newmarket is a suburban town of considerable size just north of Toronto. Its western edge is uncommonly well delineated by Bathurst Street, which acts as a sharp dividing line between suburban growth on the east and the largely untouched Oak Ridges moraine on the west. The intersection of Bathurst and Mulock is in the southwesternmost corner of town. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Dec 3 14:48:10 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp2.execulink.net (smtp2.execulink.net [199.166.6.52]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 890FC64085 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 14:48:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from none-sc5roldlld (ppp576.ac1.56k.execulink.com [209.239.15.6]) by smtp2.execulink.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id jB3JxeUc026727 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 14:59:49 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 14:59:37 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.12a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Subject: [Ontbirds]meadowlark near Port Rowan X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 19:48:10 -0000 Hi Birders Today there was a meadowlark near the side of the road just north of Port Rowan. I saw this same bird in the same location earlier in the week. There were 2 american pipits with it today. >From Highway #59 heading south, go east (left) on Conc. 2 (follow the signs to Backus Conservation Area). The bird is usually on the south edge of the road just before you get to the gates into the Conservation Area. When a car goes by it flies but returns almost immediately. There was also a rusty blackbird in the yard with the large metal building (just past the entrance to the C.A.). [EMAIL PROTECTED]
