I went back this evening to see if I could re-locate the Snowy Owl that I had seen this morning and to my surprise, I found TWO Snowy Owls. One was still sitting atop the hydro pole where I saw it this morning and the other was sitting on fence post, just south of the intersection of Highway 22 and Highway 81.
>From London: Exit off Highway 402 at Highway 81 (also known as Centre >Street). This is the Strathroy exit. Go north on Highway 81 to the lights at >intersection of Highway 81 and Highway 22. There is a car pool lot on the >north west corner. The owls are in this vicinity. Dave Skinner Strathroy, Ontario From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Apr 26 10:20:13 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (unknown [204.127.200.82]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B92863E81 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:19:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from comcast.net (c-68-62-4-13.hsd1.mi.comcast.net[68.62.4.13](misconfigured sender)) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with SMTP id <2006042614194201200mk6r5e>; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:19:43 +0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:20:18 -0400 From: Michael Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: MEC Environmental Consulting User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Ontbirds]Pelee- 6 Warbler Spp, Other Migrants X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:20:13 -0000 Birders, The migrants are returning slowly but surely at Point Pelee. Yesterday I had 6 species of warbler: Common Yellowthroat - 1 (Sanctuary) Yellow Warbler - 6 (1 west tip, 2 Loop Woods, 3 West Beach (all in the same bush!) Pine Warbler - 2 (1 along road between half-way point and Loop Woods; 1 Loop Woods) Palm Warbler - 10 (2 west tip, 2 Loop Woods, 2 near halfway, 3 West Beach, 1 Sleepy Hollow) Black-throated Green Warbler - 4 (1 south of halfway, 1 savanna trail, 1 north of Visitor Centre, 1 Sleepy Hollow) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 50 (mostly Lop Woods, halfway, north of Visitor Centre, & Sleepy Hollow). Other highlights included: Blue-headed Vireo - 3 (1 halfway, 2 north of Visitor Centre) Least Flycatcher - 1 (north end of West Beach) Merlin - 1 (tip) Common Tern - 10 (tip) Bank Swallow - 2 (tip) Pine Siskin - 1 (tip) Purple Finch - 2 (tip) Rusty Blackbird - 1 (tip) Spotted Sandpiper - 2 (West Beach) Blessings, Michael Carlson Royal Oak, MI Directions to Point Pelee National Park: From downtown Leamington, proceed south on Erie Street to Seacliff Road, and turn left. Go approx. 1 km (passing several factories on your right) to the road after Seneca Road, and turn right. You will pass a church, a golf course, a big bend, a motel, and then up over a small bridge, past Pelee Wings Nature Store, a bunch of cottages, Paula's Fish Place, another bend, and more cottages. Stay on this winding road to the entrance gate at Point Pelee. Continue straight past the gate through a number of bends and turns to a 90 degree left turn marked by a sign that says Visitor Centre or Visitor Parking Lot. Turn left and park in the large, paved parking lot. The trailhead to Tilden Woods is at the northeast corner of the parking lot; the road west and south of the Visitor Centre leads to a boardwalk and footpath to the tip. East and north of the boardwalk trailhead to the tip is the old tram loop, which is referred to as Loop Woods. West Beach, Sleepy Hollow, and Sanctuary are picnic areas along the main road to the point. The savanna trail is off the Woodland Nature Trail south of the Visitor Centre.
