This morning I found a Great Gray Owl in the Clyde Avenue Woods in Ottawa. The bird was well hidden in some cedar trees but was being scolded by the local chicadees and nuthatches. The owl flew a few short flights to adjacent trees.....seemingly looking for a sunny spot which it soon found.
Directions to Clyde Woods......from the 417 in Ottawa exit at Maitland south. Take Maitland south to Castlehill. Follow Castelhill east until it ends at Clyde Avenure. The woods are right in front of you. Search the woods. The owl was found in the south east corner east of the large butternut tree. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 6 20:38:02 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from hotmail.com (bay18-f20.bay18.hotmail.com [65.54.187.70]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E02263DE4 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 20:37:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 17:37:41 -0800 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from 67.70.66.65 by by18fd.bay18.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 01:37:41 GMT X-Originating-IP: [67.70.66.65] X-Originating-Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Barbara Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:37:41 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Mar 2006 01:37:41.0221 (UTC) FILETIME=[B9525950:01C64187] Subject: [Ontbirds]Great Gray Owl - north of Coldwater X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 01:38:03 -0000 Around noon today we toured an area north of Coldwater trying to find two Great Gray Owls reported March 1st by Betty and Bob Shannon on the Simcoe Nature Board. At #1054 Lawson Line there were twenty WILD TURKEYS at a front yard feeder. Further north on Lawson Line, just past the large marsh, there was a GREAT GRAY OWL on a tall pole near an old barn (first buildings north of the marsh). There were five HORNED LARK at the Universal Game Farm, in the field with the buffalo across from #1058 Dunns Line. If you visit the Coldwater area, you might want to continue a bit further north to Port Severn. There have been several Trumpeter Swans wintering there. In a March 2nd report on the Muskoka Bird Board, Anne Lewis reported seeing forty of them. Today we could see 15 TRUMPETER SWANS from the bridge on Port Severn Rd. There were also several COMMON GOLDENEYES, COMMON MERGANSERS, MALLARDS, AND CANADA GEESE. Directions for Great Gray Owl: >From Orillia, take Hwy. 12 West. At Coldwater, exit onto Coldwater Rd. which eventually becomes Upper Big Chute Rd. Continue until you see the Universal Game Farm ahead. Lawson Line heads north (left) and Dunns Line heads south (right) from Upper Big Chute Rd. Barbara Taylor & Bob Burt Bracebridge, ON email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Muskoka Bird Board: http://b3.boards2go.com/boards/board.cgi?&user=MuskokaBirdBoard
