Haven't heard of any sightings of the Snowy Owl at the Hamilton Airport, but had to pick up some passengers from a flight today. went up early to see if there were any signs, not much luck until I went in to grab a coffee at the Tim Hortons (by the Jetport Hanger) and saw three Crows diving at the Hydrant about 50 ft inside the fence. There was a large mottled Snowy Owl, resting against the Hydrant. The Crows harrassed the Owl for about 10 minutes, then headed out. Lucky for me I had a new Camcorder with me and got some great footage of the Owl and crows. If I can figure out how to download it I will post it for Sharing.
Directions. If you go to the Tim Hortons at the Airport By the JetPort Office) walk out the Front Door toward the Runways, when you get to the fence look to the left (Approx 10 oclock) there is a yellow and Green Hydrant good luck and good birding Nils Foss From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Mar 4 21:39:49 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from cpmail.centennialcollege.ca (cpmail.centennialcollege.ca [199.212.26.181]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A45026456B for <[email protected]>; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 21:39:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from cp.centennialcollege.ca (cpprivate [192.168.80.2]) by cpmail.centennialcollege.ca (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.04 (built Feb 8 2005)) with SMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for [email protected]; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 21:39:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 21:39:26 -0500 (EST) From: Sandra Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: [Ontbirds]Snowy Owl--Hamilton Airport X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 02:39:49 -0000 At approximately 6:15PM, we watched as a Snowy Owl that was perched atop a Stevenson screen at the north end of Hamilton Airport proceeded to glide very close to the ground in search of prey. It picked up a large tuft of grass in its talons, but quickly aborted its "catch". It then flew off in a northwesterly direction and disappeared from sight. This is likely the same bird we observed there on January 22. Go to the north end of the airport immediately in front (east) of the Tim Horton's outlet that is located near the Purolator aircraft loading area. Sandra and Bob Hawkins Etobicoke, Ontario From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mar 5 12:45:33 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp106.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp106.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.225.204]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 139B563ED1 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 12:45:10 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 81469 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2006 17:45:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?70.30.56.190?) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@70.30.56.190 with plain) by smtp106.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Mar 2006 17:45:10 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 12:45:10 -0500 From: Mark Cranford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ontbirds <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Ontbirds]Guidelines for reporting common birds X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 17:45:33 -0000 Ontbirds It was prettty quiet this morning - north wind and all but migration is beginning. This is an exciting time of the year and birders appreciate that. But with over 1800 subscribers to Ontbirds we would like to maintain a reasonable number of daily messages. Please remember our reporting guidelines. http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm Expected birds (resident and migrating birds) in well birded areas should not be reported. Ontbirds is not a journal of record. General lists of birds seen including more common birds and lists of arriving migrants are of interest to the birding community and should be submitted to regional compilers for North American Birds as well as to local Naturalist Clubs. -- Mark Cranford ONTBIRDS Coordinator Mississauga, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 905 279 9576
