On a bitterly cold Feb.19 a number of us on the LaSalle Park (Burlington) pier, viewed to the east 10 Lesser Scaups on the lakefront---one of them had a very pronounced yellow, not white, facial lores (base of bill)--I stand corrected if the anatomical area is not the lores. Has it been seen before, and/or can anyone explain it?--my guess is a first winter female on which the area has not "whitened".
Other birds seen-- Canvasback (20 or more), many Greater Scaups and Long-tailed, several Am. Coots, Redheads, Gadwalls, 20 or more Trumpeter Swans. While on this safari we noted--Ruddy Duck and N. Shoveler in the ponding along the Pier 25 road and at the Eastport Rd. slag pond. In the canal at Fisherman's Pier were over 1,000 Long-tailed Ducks. There were as many as 15 Red-tailed Hawk along the 401 from Burlington to the airport Doug Lockrey, Whitby From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Feb 19 21:24:04 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts22.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.184]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E9A863EAD for <[email protected]>; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:24:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from personaldil636 ([64.230.118.20]) by tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.netSMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:24:04 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Ott User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:23:59 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Subject: [Ontbirds]Great Gray Owl - Ottawa (east end) X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 02:24:07 -0000 The Great Gray Owl on Giroux road seems to have weathered the recent icy weather and was seen perched this afternoon at the edge of the wooded area on the left at the bend in the road. It didn't appear bothered at all by the number of people I saw observing it nearby. During the time I was observing it, the owl expelled some whitewash. Earlier a crow had flown near the owl but left quickly. A snowy owl was observed around dusk actively hunting near the road on Wall west of Frank Kenny. A picture of the Great Gray from today: http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/image/56278902 There is an informative article on the OFO website on how to identify the age of Great Gray owls. Here is the link: http://www.ofo.ca/ageinggreatgrays W.H. Ottawa, Ontario. Directions from Ottawa: Take 417 east and continue toward Orleans. Exit right at Trim Road. Continue on Trim Road up the hill past the Tim Hortons until Innes Road. Turn left on Innes and go a short distance until Frank Kenny. Turn right on Frank Kenny and continue past streets like French Hill and Regimbald. The street after Regimbald is Giroux. Turn left on Giroux and continue up the road until you see the Lafarge quarry (there are signs). From the top of this road all the way down to the bend in the road is where I have spotted the Great Gray owl.
